Implementation Period: 1st June, 2021 – 30 September, 2022

Source of Funding:  The Swiss Philanthropy Foundation (via Tanya’s Dream programme in Bulgaria)

Role of Organization: Contractor

Main Objectives: The planning of social services cannot be adequate if our understanding of local communities and the evolution of familial / social challenges are poorly understood. In the first instance, this project is designed to enable individuals affected by the deinstitutionalization process (adults and children) to act as self-advocates…

Results:

Within a period of 5 months (June-November 2020) 74 families were supported, a total of 313 people – o171 children, 80 women and 62 men. During the period funding was spent on – food, hygiene materials, diapers, formula mik, thermometers, personal protective equipment and supplies for babies, school supplies and materials, firewood, utility costs incurred as a result of extreme poverty of families and loss of income as a result of Covid 19.…

Implementation period: January 2021 – August 2021

Source of funding: Iris Programme. Program created on the initiative of the Bulgarian Donors’ Forum, the National Network for Children and the Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation. It is managed by the Civic Initiatives Workshop Foundation.

Role of the organization: contractor

Specific objectives: To support a total of 355 people = 90 families, 195 children. Supporting 90 families at risk of breakdown, preventing the risk of separation…

Equilibrium believes that quality early care and education is crucial for children’s development into independent and competent adults. Having created in 2017 the first Early Childhood Development Resources Centre in Ruse in support of parents, educators and social workers, we have initiated the modernization of nursery and pre-school education in Bulgaria through our recent project: Reform of Early Childhood Education in Eastern Europe – Bulgaria.

Implementation period: January, 2019 to December, 2021

Source of funding: Villum Foundation, Denmark

We are…

Equilibrium believes that quality early care and education is crucial for children’s development into independent and competent adults. Having created in 2017 the first Early Childhood Development Resources Centre in Ruse in support of parents, educators and social workers, we have initiated the modernization of nursery and pre-school education in Bulgaria through our recent project: Reform of Early Childhood Education in Eastern Europe – Bulgaria.

Implementation period: January, 2019 to December, 2021

Source of funding: Villum Foundation, Denmark

We are…

Project 1. “Tactile Workshop for Equal Opportunities in the Community”
Implementation period: April 2019 – April 2020
Source of funding: Vivacom Program and Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law
Role of the organization: Contractor
Overall goal of the project:
The main goal of the project is to improve the social inclusion of vulnerable members of the community, by extending their social experience with the art, cultural and historical heritage of Ruse. Also to improve the sensitivity of community members from an…

Project “Kids Voice”

Implementation period: January 2018 – December 2018

Source of funding: Under the procedure № BG05M9OP001-4.001 “Transnational and Danube Partnerships for Employment and Growth”, OP “Human Resources Development” 2014-2020.

Project partner: ENFAP – Italy

Achieved results:

Social innovations for enhancing the capacity of children in their early childhood, their parents and informal leaders from marginalized communities in the “Sredna kula” district, Ruse municipality, from the activities of Castelfidardo, Italy, were implemented. The social innovations that have been transferred…

Project: “Accept me 2015” BG05M9OP001-2.003-0001-C01

Implementation period: March 2018 – December 2020

Source of funding: Operational Program “Human Resources Development” 2014-2020, co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund

Role of the organization: subcontractor, according to Service Contract No. 2018-U-19 / 13.03.2018 with the Municipality of Silistra

Expected results:

• 6 individual supervisions of the host families under the Project from Silistra District, where children are accommodated;
• 6 specialized exercises of Silistra Regional Foster Care Team (RFCT), were conducted;…

  

BYMBE Project – “Bringing Young Mothers Back to Education” – Completed

Implementation period: September 2017 – August 2019

Source of funding: “Erasmus +” Program – Key Axis 2 – The European Commission’s Strategic Partnership for Adult Learning

Role of the organization: partner

Specific objectives: The project aims to create training tools to support the work of social workers, teachers and trainers to help young mothers between the ages of 15 and 25 turn back to education or work again by…

Implementation period: January, 2019 – December, 2020

Source of funding: Velux Foundation

Role of the organization: Bulgarian partner to VIA University College, Denmark

Expected results:

Primary action conducted in Kindergarten “Brothers Grimm”. Sofia

Secondary action conducted in Kindergarten “Snow White”, Ruse

• Delivery of 24 training courses of 4 days duration for kindergarten personnel
• Provision of recommendations for re-design of kindergarten facilities plus support for first steps in renovation process
• Provision of two study visits to Aarhus in…