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On the eve of Christmas, Equilibrium instituted the Temple of Play Award. The first was presented at an impromptu celebration to United Sunshine Children’s Services for creating a beautiful sensory room for children with disabilities and a sensory garden that have transformed the spaces in the services and will bring many positive emotions to the children, and help with their sensory stimulation. The sensory room was made possible thanks to the generosity of the Lions Clubs in Ruse and the… 
Equilibrium is a member and co-founder of the Childhood 2025 Coalition, whose main role is in the process of deinstitutionalization. Due to our active role in the Coalition, we have submitted numerous submissions to various governments over the years, some of which have managed to influence various policies. Example: there was a decision to move children and young people out of the family-type accommodation centresso as to re-profile the different facilities (this was a change in the regulation for implementation…
According to Finnish professor Mirjam Kalland a child “demands continuity, stability and recurring routines”. Kelland provides a recipe for the professional support by claiming that “we can support the health of individual children and families with very ordinary things, with the ‘magic of the ordinary’”. (Source: ‘Family centre in the Nordic countries – a meeting point for children and families’, Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen 2012).
As the volume of Equilibrium’s encounters with Ukrainian mothers with young children increases,…
TO:
DUBRAVKA ŠUICA, VICE-PRESIDENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND
DEMOGRAPHY
VĚRA JOUROVÁ, VICE-PRESIDENT FOR VALUES AND TRANSPARENCY
ELISA FERREIRA, COMMISSIONER FOR COHESION AND REFORMS
NICOLAS SCHMIT, COMMISIONER FOR JOBS AND SOCIAL RIGHTS
DIDIER REYNDERS, COMMISSIONER FOR JUSTICE
HELENA DALLI, COMMISSIONER FOR EQUALITY JUSTICE
RENATE WINTER, CHAIRPERSON OF THE UNCRC COMMITTEE
DUNJA MIJATOVIĆ, THE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
MICHAEL O’FLAHERTY, DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY…
Christmas Gift – a charity Christmas campaign of the Equilibrium
You can make Christmas for children and families at risk more beautiful and happier!
Choose a Christmas Gift for your relatives and friends!
How can you do this?
Decide which Christmas gifts you would like to buy on behalf of your relatives and friends. We will then send you an electronic voucher for each selected Christmas Gift. You can give it as a gift instead of…
I am very concerned to learn about the proposed amendments to the Non-Profit Legal Entities Act under consideration, which would create a very hostile environment for those civil society organisations with public benefit status that are in receipt of foreign funding.
In particular, I am concerned to see the proposal to label such organisations essentially as foreign agents, to subject them to financial inspections without any objective cause, to take away their public benefit status for a minor breach of…
By Jan Šiška and Julie Beadle-Brown 2020
One year after the massacre of the girls
Ending human rights violations against children and adolescents housed
in institutions:
A CALL TO ACTION
