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Equilibrium is very grateful to all of the people of Ruse who chose to buy martenitsi from ‘The Spring Tree’ of the Social Services Complex.
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We sold over 2500 martenitsi, cards and also launched our newest product – the eco shoulder bag manufactured for us by students from the city’s school of fashion and design.
By raising almost 1300 leva we can continue our tradition of providing summer camps for children and we’ve started talking to other organisations about supporting… Continue reading
On Friday, February 10th, 2012 the personnel at the complex and several friends of EQ, set up a fundraising bazaar at the complex working on the principle of 50% of takings for the trader and 50% for the complex.
Needless to say, several people generously gave a larger proportion if not all of their takings to support EQ’s mission.
Those visiting belonged to the city’s social welfare, educational and business communities and they had a fairly extraordinary range of art… Continue reading
Irrespective of our religion or how we feel about the commercialization of Christmas, we must accept that the celebrations introduce wonder and magic to the lives of children meaning that it is a time at which the disadvantage suffered by many youngsters is poignantly felt.
For a second year, we did everything we could to provide some of this magic to the vulnerable children we work with helped by of all our friends, partners and the generosity of the people… Continue reading
19th December, 2011: Santa Claus and Snow White gave Christmas gifts to 60 youngsters at Ruse complex for social services.
A hall thronging with people and ringing with Christmas cheer was the venue for our 2011 event that allows Equilibrium and Open Society Club to play host to clients and friends of the complex.
We invited our guests to share the warmth of a traditional Bulgarian festive celebration and students from the drama club of the Professional High School of… Continue reading
Equilibrium – the provider of social services in the Ruse complex for children and families at risk, has won 4,000 leva in a competition of projects organized by the “Bulgarian Charities Aid Foundation” – BCAF.
The proposals should have been targeted at supporting parental organizations of disabled children. The money for the competition had been donated mainly by UniCredit Bulbank staff and supplemented by the BCAF social causes donations fund. The EQ project will be implemented from December 2011 to… Continue reading
Flanders DC is a government funded ‘creativity centre’ in the ancient city of Leuven, near the Belgian capital of Brussels.
During a 5-day period starting on 30th November, 2011, the facility hosted a studio discussion based on a model developed in Helsinki that brought together eight experts from throughout the European Union to meet local stakeholders in the development of the country’s childcare policy, visit community-based services and design a 10-point strategy document to assist the development of the Flemish… Continue reading
From 14th to 25th of November, 2011 a team from the Compex in Ruse conducted a training for the staff of ‘Nadezhda’ Home for Children Deprived of Parental Care. In response to a request from the children’s home, David Bisset – Project Manager and Lyubomira Lyubenova- psychologist conducted two workshops for the staff from the social institution for children from 3 to 7 years old.
One workshop was designed to help the participants understand the roots of aggressive behaviour and… Continue reading
On 17th November, 2011 ten children from Ruse’s social services complex had the chance to explore the world of animals.
The children visited the department of the regional history museum dedicated to ecology and natural science. The main exhibits place stuffed animals (taxidermy) in simulations of their natural environments and graphically demonstrate a wide cross section of the local ecology sufficient to spark the curiosity of young visitors. The children directed many questions to Venceslav Petkov, the custodian of the… Continue reading
The Ruse Complex for social services received an unique donation – ‘philosophical’ jewelery made by students and teachers from the city’s School of Clothes Design and Tailoring ‘Nedka Ivan Lazarova’.
There is a tradition in the school that, every year, on 17th November – the World Day of Philosophy – students and teachers become artists and creators of ‘philosophical’ jewelery.This year the children decided to give some of their masterpieces for charity. The teenagers also wanted to help the children… Continue reading
On 10 and 11 November 2011, experts from Cedar Foundation visited the social services complex in Ruse to meet the team there and exchange experience in the provision of social services especially those, provided in the family-type home where 8 children from the Mogilino institution for the disabled, are now accommodated.
The visit was prompted by the participation of Cedar Foundation in Kyustendil in the closure of the home for mentally retarded children in Gorna Koznitsa. The foundation now manages… Continue reading