The National Assembly began discussing a draft law amending the Preschool and School Education Act proposed by the Council of Ministers. In essence, this will be the first major change in the education law, adopted five years ago and in force for four years. What do the proposed changes envisage? The changes are in four […]
TELUS International Bulgaria Community Board voted to fund selected socially significant projects in support of Bulgarian communities affected by COVID-19. A total of 244 projects competed in the two open calls for applications this year. The main focus of the evaluation is the effectiveness of the projects and their positive impact on local communities as well […]
Proposals of the Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance “Amalipe”, NGO “World without Borders” and Association “New Way” to the Bill for amendment and supplement of the Law for the pre-school and school education, № 002-01-22, submitted by the Council of Ministers on 19.06.2020 We support the proposed Law on Amendments to the Law on […]
The Veliko Tarnovo District Administration hosted a meeting organized by the JUSTROM Program of the Council of Europe and the European Commission and the Amalipe Center in connection with the increasing cases of domestic violence and hate crimes during the state of emergency. The event was hosted by the District Administration – Veliko Tarnovo. The […]
The essay presented below is ranked First in the first age group – Essay category, within the competition “Girls with dreams – turn the page” of Amalipe Center and Zonta Club – Stara Zagora Author: Yana Valentinova Marinova, 14 years old, 7th grade student at the 75th primary school “Todor Kableshkov”, Sofia I am YANA […]
As we wrote earlier today, the winners of the competition “Girls with dreams: let’s turn the page”, initiated by Amalipe Center and Club Zonta – Stara Zagora are already clear. They were announced live on the Facebook group Amalipe – Veliko Tarnovo from 14.00, which you can see here. The ranked places were chosen by […]
Due to the state of emergency and the unexpected situation in which we found ourselves in the last more than 2 months, the entire team of Amalipe Center had to change the direction of their activities. We focused our efforts on the Old Devices for a New Beginning Campaign, in supporting educational mediators and schools […]
Beating a child is always a crime. Beating a child and making fun of him because of his ethnicity is racism and a crime against humanity. They cannot be described in any other way without complicity. We express our deep indignation at the racist beating and the mockery with 15-year-old Stefan Stefanov, which took place […]
One of the long-standing programs that the Amalipe Center implements is “Equal Chance – Access to Secondary Education”, funded by the Trust for Social Achievement. The program is long-term, it was started in 2011 and it provides aids and transportation costs for young people in high school. The students who take part in it come […]
UNICEF’s support in Bulgaria for the introduction of distance learning in a pandemic also includes a fund for the most vulnerable families, through which disinfectants, masks and gloves were purchased. It does not include the purchase of food. The packages were distributed through mediators from the Amalipe Center and partner NGOs working in the field […]