Online ceremony for awarding the winners of the contest “Girls with dreams – turn the page”
A year ago, the Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance “Amalipe” and Zonta Club Stara Zagora organized a student competition “Girls with dreams – to turn the page.” The topic of the competition was related to overcoming harmful traditional practices, including the so-called “Early marriages” and the pursuit of dreams. The aim of the competition was to provoke young people to create messages aimed at preventing these practices. They participated with essays, videos and images. The competition was open to students (girls and boys) from first to twelfth grade from all schools in Bulgaria, as well as from Bulgarian schools abroad.
In June 2020, we announced the winners, but unfortunately we never made an official award ceremony, because we were waiting for the situation to allow this to happen live. As obviously in 2021 there will be no suitable attendance events, we decided to hold the award ceremony online, where the awarded works will be presented.
Purpose of the discussion forum: To present the awarded works; to announce the winners, to have the opportunity to introduce themselves and talk to older young people – role models who pursue their dreams. To have a discussion between the participants of “Beyond the Veil” – what is the responsibility of marriage, what are the risks and what is the path to change.
Participants:
- Winners of the competition
- Girls ambassadors of the initiative of the British Embassy “Ambassador for a Day”
- Bogomila Samuilova – volunteer, student, last year’s winner of the student competition of Amalipe Center
- Maria Hristova (Fulbright trainee in a legal program against hate speech in the media towards the Roma community, chairwoman of the student parliament, participated in the Leadership Academy 2018, volunteer, activist – school from the SU-Kotel network)
- Princessа Ivanova (Member of the Children’s Council at the SACP, Ambassador to the Academy of Sciences, volunteer and activist)
Time and place:
April 9 from 14:00 until 16:00; Zoom.us
The first part of the event, the award ceremony and the presentation of the works participating in the competition, will be broadcast live on the FB page of Center Amalipe.
More information about the competition can be found here.
And here you can read some of the award-winning essays:
I’m Yana
An unfinished letter
Contact person: Denitsa Ivanova, amalipe_student@abv.bg, 0884-857-578
