• Closing Institutions Forever

    Over 100 babies and young children are abandoned every month in Bulgaria. While institutions continue to exist, children will continue to be placed in them.
  • Changing Lives For The Better

    One out of every five disabled children is abandoned at birth. They are likely to become more disabled the longer they stay in institutional care.
  • Demanding Justice

    In the past ten years over 150 children have died through neglect and preventable causes whilst in institutional care.We are campaigning for those responsible to face prosecution.
  • Volunteers Make A Difference

    Institutional care is deeply damaging to a child’s physical and emotional growth & many suffer developmental delay, due to the long periods of time the children spend without stimulation
  • Helping Families

    The families of disabled children receive very little support within Bulgaria and can struggle to cope with the demands of looking after a child with special needs.
  • You Can Make A Difference Today

    There are many ways you can help to support our work or become directly involved in what we do.

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A desperate Bulgarian mother gets help from an unexpected source

Pavlina Radkova is a mother who never gave up on her son Ivan’s chance of a “normal”
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Will there be justice for the children left to die in ‘care’?

It’s over two years since the Prosecutor General in Bulgaria announced criminal investigations into the deaths of
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Political turmoil and street protests continue in Bulgaria

By resigning last Thursday, the Bulgarian prime minister, Boyko Borisov hoped to defuse mounting public anger and

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A desperate Bulgarian mother gets help from an unexpected source

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Ruling in controversial US foster care adoption case

Minn. Supreme Court issues ruling in controversial foster care adoption case: http://news360.com/article/177263239
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Bulgaria criticised for ‘shameful failure’ on protecting rights of children at UNHCR

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) protested this week to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Bulgaria’s continuing disregard for the human rights of children growing up in institutional care. IHEU is an international NGO with Special Consultative Status with the UN (New
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Hike in Maternity Benefits Will Not Boost Birth Rate

Bulgaria’s Labor Minister: Hike in Maternity Benefits Will Not Boost Birth Rate http://news360.com/article/176446418
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Will there be justice for the children left to die in ‘care’?

It’s over two years since the Prosecutor General in Bulgaria announced criminal investigations into the deaths of 238 children in state care. The deaths, a roll call of unbearable suffering, from starvation to violent abuse occurred between 2000 and 2010 –
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Political turmoil and street protests continue in Bulgaria

By resigning last Thursday, the Bulgarian prime minister, Boyko Borisov hoped to defuse mounting public anger and put a stop to the daily street protests that were turning increasingly violent. However, the move looks to have backfired with more protests in
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Medicine PhD Arkadiy Shmilovich and Stereotypes

Medicine PhD Arkadiy Shmilovich talks about sterotypes in and around psychiatry, diseases we do not notice and social rights of handicapped in Russia and other countries in his interview with Bolshoy Gorod magazine. Link to original article Link to the automactically
Rosa's Article

Rosa Monckton asks how can things change for the children of Bulgaria’s institutions?

It was something about the twins that got to me; after seeing so many baby institutions and children’s homes, I had almost grown used to abandoned children in ranks of cots, staring at the ceiling. The twins — a boy and
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Former Director Of Baby Home Wins Case Against Unfair Dismissal

10 December 2012 The District Court in Pleven has overturned the decision by the Ministry of Health to sack Dr Kostova as Director of the Home for Medical and Social Care of Children in Pleven.  The ‘home’ is one of the
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Still waiting for Deinstitutionalisation by Maria Sharkova

17 Juy 2012 I spent almost a year in the children’s home in Mogilino as an interpreter and assistant of Kate Blewett during the filming of “Bulgaria’s abandoned children”, which was aired on the BBC in 2007. The time spent in