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Since 1st April EQ has managed services in two small group homes for young adults whose physical and / or neurological disabilities precluded the use of other alternatives for community-based care (eg foster care). The facilities were created under a project undertaken by Ruse Municipality – “Our children are our responsibility-creation of a network of residential services for children and young people aged 3 to 18 in Ruse municipal district.”
Young adults removed from large residential institutions suffer the… Continue reading
EQ took over management of two family-type homes for young adults with disabilities earlier this year meaning that our team has increased in size to almost 70 people.
The entire gang came together for lunch, fun and games on Friday, 10th July at the Ovcharska Luka complex outside of Ruse. Newer members of the team joined the “veterans” to share a light-hearted look at EQ past, present and future.
Galya and Elena led to games after David thanked the… Continue reading
Within the project of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP) “Transnational network to support children and families and the deinstitutionalization of childcare” EQ was selected as one of 15 organisations (out of 50) that exhibit best practices in prevention of child abandonment and early intervention for children with developmental problems.
The project was undertaken in collaboration with organizations and institutions from Italy that are engaged in policy development for children and the final conference took place in… Continue reading
This is a story about another small person we now care for at the “Pink House”.
Simo is 7 years old. When he was only four months old, he fell ill. The diagnosis was horrific – focal cortical atrophy, epilepsy with seizures and anaemia.
Frightened, his mother abandoned Simo and his life continued in the home for babies in Shumen where he seldom left his cot.
A year ago he was visited by our psychologist Nadezhda Petrova and manager of… Continue reading
The project is implemented by Equilibrium (EQ) in the Ruse district and is funded by the Trust for social Achievement.
Project activity began on January 5th, 2015 and will continue for 3 years. The total budget is 287 162.44 leva or 126,620 Euro.
The project is innovative because it offers a completely new model and fresh approaches to work in the Roma community based on 10 years of experience, observation and analysis drawn from working with different groups of… Continue reading
It’s Friday. A lot of the day is planned but dozens of things arrive unplanned and urgent calls for action are inevitable.
The complex is teeming with people. Group of foster parents are being filmed by our friends and partners from Arena Media and the stage management involves a lot of mobile paraphernalia – equipment and props – but, above all, an eye for detail. Mothers are moving around the complex as the film-makers search for locations. The… Continue reading
In the fertile imaginations of children, humans can meet and chat with animals and they can learn from one another.
Our young clients were delighted by the meeting of North represented by Elena and South in the guise of a penguin.
Having travelled the length and breadth of the planet and now arrived in Ruse to launch a Christmas Ice Festival, Elena and the Penguin revealed something of the diversity of global Christmas traditions.
Penguin was astonished to discover that… Continue reading
Since July, 2013 an Equilibrium team supported administratively by Open society Club – Ruse and given technical support by Professor Tony Ghaye from the UK and Dr. Vesselina Bossilkova from Bulgaria has been engaged with the question of how to improve the evaluation of services for children and families.
The project was formally named External / Self -evaluation in Childcare & Family-Support Services as a Means of Capacity-building and was supported by generous funding provided by the Bulgarian-Swiss Cooperation… Continue reading