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After the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Ceaușescu regime Fr. Georg Sporschill SJ was sent to Bucharest by his Order in 1991. There he took care of the many abandoned children on the streets and founded CONCORDIA social projects. A house on Piață Concordiei, Concordia Square, is the name given to the still young social organisation.
Over time CONCORDIA opened several houses where children grow up in family-like communities, social centres and the first training workshops for young people. Starting in 2004, family & social centres were established in several villages in the…
The Partnership for Every Child CEE/CIS Regional Alliance has existed since 2009 as an informal affiliation of five NGOs: Partnerships for Every Child in Moldova, Ukraine and Russia, Partnership for Children in Georgia and For Our Children Foundation in Bulgaria. The five NGOs share a common mission to prevent unnecessary loss of family care for vulnerable children and provide protection to children without parental care in the CEE/CIS region and are committed to developing a region-wide program that can help to build synergies and accelerate the pace of child care reform across the CEE/CIS…
For Our Children Foundation is a Bulgarian non-government organization which has been supporting the vulnerable children and their families since 1992. For Our Children is an inheritor of the British human rights organizations European Children’s Trust, Christian Children’s Fund and Every Child. With its international experience and qualified expertise, the organization applies for the first time at national level the support for parents for prevention of child abandonment, foster care and creates the first municipal teams of social workers for child protection. For more than 27 years now,…
The Know-How Center for Alternative Child Care is a consulting and research organization working with the government to stop using institutional care for children and develop community services. The know-how center is working to ensure that the deinstitutionalization of the children in Bulgaria is done in a way that values the uniqueness of each child, respects his / her opinion and supports parents and communities in providing a secure family environment.
The National Network for Children is an alliance of civil society organisations and supporters that work with children and families in Bulgaria, including through a foster care programme. They plan and implement advocacy campaigns in order to guarantee the rights of children and improve the well being of Bulgarian families and children. They work in active partnership with the NGO sector, businesses, institutions and individuals with the active participation of the children.