WHO ARE TH STUDENTS AT LIVSLUST-DZIVESPRIEKS?

We have room for 38 pupils who stay at the school and in addition we can take in 5-10 day-pupils from the neighbourhood. We accept boys and girls from all over Latvia. When they come they are between 15-18 years of age. The pupils are of  four categories:

   1. Orphans, who have spent whole or parts of their lives in
       institutions.
  
   2. Socially orphaned youngsters, whose parents have lost
       custody of them either due to alcohol or drug abuse, poverty
       or criminality, or for all three reasons.
  
   3. Children from dysfunctional families, with parents who cannot
       provide any normal parental support due to poverty,
       sickness, criminality and/or alcoholism.

      Youngsters from category 1,2 and 3 live at the school
      during the rehabilitation and study period.
      
   4. Young people from poor local families. Livslust-Dzivesprieks
       is situated in the countryside, where many families live under
       hard social conditions. Often, there are many children in
       each family and the parents are usually very poor. We offer
       teenagers from such families in the neighbourhood
       vocational training, meals and to participate in all the
       activities arranged by the school. The condition is that they
       sleep the night at home.