The courage to say no: Meeting students for a future without early marriage

8Sometimes the most powerful lessons come not from textbooks, but from life. In April, students in three schools in the municipality of General Toshevo had the extraordinary opportunity to meet Mira Stefanova – a woman who went through darkness and pain, but chose the light of knowledge. Together with Galina Toshkova, the regional coordinator of […]

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No, no, no to the early marriages!

We would pass a heart like another heart, another explanation in love, another testimony of fidelity and love on social media, but one heart was different because of the caption: “No, no, no to the early marriages.” With this message the children from the Ihtiman school “St. St. Cyril and Methodius ”on social networks. Their photos […]

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Let’s talk about love … which comes when the time for it comes

In recent decades, February 14th is a day which contradicts St. Valentine and Trifon Zarezan* – the day of love vs. the day of wine. And when you are 14, the fourteenth day of February is the long-awaited day when you can legitimize your feelings and when youthful emotions cannot be subdued to traditions; the […]

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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 […]

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I am Yana

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 […]

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