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In this episode of Our World from BBC News, film maker Kate Blewett examines what's happened to the children she met in Mogilino, Bulgaria in 2007 and reveals the reality of life for children in some of the new Group Homes. "In 2007 the BBC film Bulgaria's Abandoned Children exposed tragic levels of neglect in Mogilino Social Care Home, an institute for mentally and physically disabled young people," says the episode description. "Since then, more than a quarter of a billion euros has been given by the EU to Bulgaria to replace the country's institutes with smaller family-like Group…
Unaccompanied refugee children in Bulgaria face extreme risks in the country's refugee facilities, including temporary detention, a practice recently legalized contrary to international human rights standards.
This basic awareness-raising course is for anyone who may come into contact with children and young people in alternative care settings. The aim of the course is to provide a brief understanding of trauma, the impact it can have on the lives of children and young people, and ways to support those who may be affected by it.
This course is part of a wider EU-co-funded project called “Safe Places, Thriving Children: Embedding Trauma-Informed Practices into Alternative Care Settings.” The project is being implemented in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary and Serbia under the…
This three day conference - to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria 6-8 November 2019 - aims at sharing and discussing relevant data and experience, promising practices and challenges in the field of Deinstitutionalisation (DI). Within the global context of this reform, the event will take an EU perspective, focusing on the reform’s specific national characteristics and on bridging the gap between the accumulated knowledge and decision-making in DI.
The conference will document the lessons learnt concerning the DI processes …
To facilitate Barnahus and similar setups to hear about how children experience their service, PROMISE has developed a Child Participation Tool. The tool focuses on the child’s experience of Barnahus, including the travel to Barnahus, their experience in Barnahus, coming home from Barnahus and potential follow up or mid-to-long term treatment in Barnahus or by a mobile Barnahus team.
Join this webinar to walk through the tool with the author Olivia Lind Haldorsson, and to discuss with European colleagues about approaches and considerations for soliciting children’s views on their…
This webinar is being organized as part of the regional project "Building Relationships through Innovative Development of Gender-Based Violence Awareness in Europe - BRIDGE" which has the aim to strengthen the statutory response to gender-based violence (GBV) affecting children and youth on the move in EU countries.
The BRIDGE project is supported by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) and is implemented in Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Malta and Romania.A series of webinars are being organized as part of the BRIDGE project to discuss issues of…
The Know-How Centre for the Alternative Care for Children-NBU are looking for an Administrative Manager for their team. The Center is part of the academic structure of New Bulgarian University and works with "government, local authorities, state agencies and non-governmental organizations to empower communities in their care for children and to solve their problems, including reducing the risk of institutionalization of children in Bulgaria." The right candidate should have experience in managing different organizational processes, as well as flexibility and understanding of…
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,…