Friends for Friends is another aiding strategy by Vepsian Society, developed to not only to provide material help but rather to tear the Vepsians away from their isolation from other Finno-Ugrian peoples sharing the languague and the maentality.  

Regular contacts with Finns that are related to Vepsians as well as with Russian, Estonian and other scientists and helpers, who show respect for Vepsian culture and language are very important when we consider the tragic facts of the Vepsian history. On the other side the Center of Vepsian culture situated in the city of Petrozavodsk (capital of Carelia) is too far away to expose any influence or support for Vepsians' everyday life. That's why we are carrying out since 1996 a program for elevation of the self-dignity of the Vepsian minority.

Not unhonest undertakers, who come with a bottle of vodka in one hand and an axe in the other to cut down our taiga forests and laugh at the honest Vepsian way but our real friends arriving to listen to the rich tongue of our minority culture are making Vepsian's eyes glow.