Friends of Bulgaria responds to local initiatives for improving the quality of life of children in care and adolescents leaving care living isolated, routine-bound existences in urban locations, deprived of social communication, recreation and proper education.
Fund-raising Sponsored Walk In 2018, Friends of Bulgaria is chosen to benefit from funds raised by Jan Kozlowski’s Trekking Spirit Project, a 7,200 km walk from the Black Sea to the Spanish Atlantic Ocean passing through Bulgaria to be distributed for the benefit of children’s recreation, music and and play in orphanages and refugee shelter. https://www.facebook.com/AdventurelandEurope/
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We wish Jan and Eva every success!
Friends of Bulgaria works in partnership with charities in Bulgaria delivering projects designed to promote:
Communication & Social Skills: Life Support Skills: Personal development:
Individual confidence: | in Creative Arts: music, singing, dance, art, crafts in computer literacy, cooking, accounting 'Outreach' and Mentoring projects targeting individuals’ social, emotional, physical and educational difficulties Outward Bound projects, eg: summer camp and excursions offering experiences of rural nature and team building |
2017 / 2018 News
ZOV Childrens Club at Penyo Maria Centre, Veliko Turnovo - new Sports Room: At the opening, Deputy Minister of Social Care Department Bulgaria Rositsa Dimitrova said: "Organisations like ZOV are a great example of collaboration between institutions. Other organisations should learn how ZOV helps children and how to be consistent, sustainable supporting not only for the children but the whole child protection system. I have never known an organization like ZOV. I am so proud of what ZOV is doing". February 2018
Project providers ZOV, Veliko Turnovo a team from Friends of Bulgaria visited ZOV programmes in several centres pictured ZOV initiative to extend the Outreach Mentoring programme to Children in Care in Vratsa is the focus of Friends of Bulgaria special Christmas Appeal 2017
  
ZOV Childrens' Club for Special ZOV Saturday Club for Girls at Volunteer Mentors help
Needs: music-making Risk in sheltered accommodation: children in care with school work
dancing and singing
 
ZOV Saturday Club for children ZOV Mentoring Education club in residential home craft making,
decorating eggs, candles
Star of Hope, Sofia Replacing Star of Hope founder Emilia Manolova, new director, Martin Evgeniev introduces the team at Star of Hope, including long-standing Social Worker Lubka Ivanova who is closely associated with sheltered accommodation HalfwayHouse residents past and present and maintains the level of care given to Family Centres for children without Parental Care and people with Special Needs, including adults and the elderly, provided by Star of Hope in the Vratsa and Blagoevgrad districts. read more
Dalbok Dol, Troyan - Centre for Social Rehabilitation and Integration Supported by Дете и Пространство - Child and Space Contact with Centre resumed, after a break following the departure of Centre Director in 2014
Situated in the tranquil Balkan village Dalbok Dol, the Centre comprises of:
- a Family Centre with capacity for accommodating 14 children without parental care - a Day Centre with therapy for children with Special Needs referred by the schools in Troyan - and is equipped with an art and ceramics workshop
 
Dalbok Dol Day Centre therapist support
Friends of Bulgaria supported Summer Camps 2017 A record number of summer camps welcomed children from distant towns in Bulgaria to the heart of the Balkan Mountains: - from Sofia, Star of Hope’s regular summer camp - from Veliko Turnovo, ZOV increased the number of successive camps to 6 - from Kichevo, Varna, the first summer camp from the Center for Faith, Hope and Love
Friends of Bulgaria’s Project Providers: OXAB: Oxford Aid to the Balkans - oxab.yolasite.com ZOV: 'appeal' - zov.org.uk Star of Hope Foundation, Sofia Karin Dom Foundation, Varna
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