Between 12th and 14th March 2012, the Karin Dom Foundation hosted a final conference for those organizations working on the project Development of the Early Intervention Service for Children with Special Needs in the Local Communities.

The conference was attended by the following organizations: NGO Equilibrium – Ruse, RALIZ – Ruse, Hand for Help Foundation – Dobrich, NGO St. Mina – Dobrich, Samaritans – Stara Zagora, NGO Alternative 55 – Stara Zagora, National Alliance for Working with Volunteers – Plovdiv,… Continue reading →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

EQ has a strong working relationship with the British embassy in Sofia.

As a result of the British government decreasing the size of its mission in Bulgaria, a sizeable quantity of furniture was sold but items remaining were available for donation and the Ruse complex benefited from this generosity receiving a selection of office furniture and equipment on 29th September 2011.

We are extremely grateful and send our thanks to our colleagues at the embassy.

David represents Equilibrium on the board of National Children’s Network and one of his main roles is to use the experience and knowledge of Equilibrium to help develop a solid platform for Child Participation and the development of methods of introducing children and teenagers to the activities of the organization.

In addition, EQ and the NCN are collaborating in the field of educational development and hope to impact on the extent to which children and young adults have a say… Continue reading →