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On 19th November, EQ played host to a surprisingly large group representing Ruse’s educational community.
The venue was our new office in Dobrudja Street which was being used as we intend to continue using it – as a welcoming, informal meeting place for presentations, training and discussions.
Svetla Mejri greeted the audience and introduced the speakers – David and Galina Bisset – who intended to talk about “games and adventures”. This is how we refer to an extensive repertoire that… Continue reading
Participation in the exhibition “Taste the Balkans”, held on 6,7 and 8 November in “Inter Expo Centre” in Sofia, Association” allowed Equilibrium and our working partners Open Society Club – Ruse to launch a new charity campaign “Turn good intentions into action”.
We were invited to participate in the international exhibition by the Bulgarian organization Slow Food and we take this opportunity to say a very big Thank you to Desislava Dimitrova (chairperson) and Tsvetan Dimitrov.
Our products ranged from… Continue reading
It being Halloween, our young clients and youth leaders become unrecognizable – transformed into masked vampires , witches , ghosts and other scary creatures congregated in the gymnasium amid spiders, bats and black cats for games that chill the blood.
It started with trick-or-treat – carrying pumpkin lanterns, young revelers formed a ghoulish procession that paraded to the door of a cosy cottage improvised from a tent and occupied by team leaders who responded to the young visitors in the… Continue reading
On 11th October, young clients and staff from the Ruse complex shared a giant birthday cake with a variety of people who had come to help sing “Happy Birthday to you”
Parents, foster carers, partners and colleagues from the childcare sector including key representatives of the local deinstitutionalisation coordination mechanism who were provided with a vivid example of the community-based alternative to residential care for children.
It was a dual-purpose cake because, as our compere, Elena Petkova, pointed out we… Continue reading
The training programme developed by “Equilibrium” offers training in 7 thematic areas in which the EQ team has gained substantial experience and practical know how and the programme has gained momentum and popularity recently leading to our trainers visiting 6 facilities in the space of two month.
The interest of most of my colleagues focused on experience in the management of social services and specific models and practices developed and applied in Ruse’s complex for social support.
Managers and employees… Continue reading
On 29 September, 2013 the Ruse complex hosted its fourth annual meeting “Friend of adoption and foster care.”
This year the meeting was attended by many adopted children, adoptive parents and prospective adoptive parents. However, this was the first time we’ve linked the adoption group with foster parents and children. Friends and other family members also joined in the celebration. All were in fancy dress – Bugs Bunny, a selection of princesses and fairies, Red Riding Hood , the Pink… Continue reading
PAAR stands for Participatory and Appreciative Action and Reflection and this conference organized by the Know How Centre for Alternative Care for Children (New Bulgarian University, Sofia) was the first event of its kind in SEE.
The conference was jointly facilitated by Professor Tony Ghaye (UK) and Dr. Galina Markova who heads the Know How Centre. Professor Ghaye is an internationally known exponent of positive psychology and director of Reflective Learning – International.
The event was attended by over 80… Continue reading
On 19 September 2013, Mariana Velikova took part in a roundtable discussion about the challenges of social tendering organized by the Bulgarian Centre for Non-Profit Law and the National Association of Municipalities.
The mechanism of tendering for social services has been operational in Bulgaria for 11 years. At its launch in 2004 there were only two tenders leading to the commissioning of two social services. Data for 2012 shows the outsourcing of 178 service totaling about 16 million leva. There… Continue reading
In collaboration with the “Centre Dynamics” 10 young clients of the Ruse complex were involved in activities under the project banner – “Management of the National Tuberculosis Programme in Bulgaria”, financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS
Within the project “System for career guidance in schools” CGC asked the complex to support summer activities for children.
Supported by our social work team, participants in the summer programme at the complex, met career counselors in an unorthodox context that involved