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What We Do
Campaigning for change and supporting projects that bring about change for disabled and vulnerable children in Bulgaria - to ensure all children can grow up in the loving protection of a family home.
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Bulgaria condemned for the deaths of 15 disabled children in the Dzhurkovo ‘home’
Describing the case as a ‘national tragedy’, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has found the Bulgarian authorities failed in their duty to protect the lives of 15 vulnerable children living in the social care ‘home’ in Dzhurkovo who died for lack of food, heat, medicines and basic necessities during the winter of…
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The brutal truth about institutional care, caught on camera
The horrific video of three female carers beating a group of young boys, aged between 7 and 9 years, in a Russian ‘orphanage’ is a sickening reminder that physical abuse of children is commonplace forcan be part of the daily routine e children growing up in institutional care can suffer. The boys, wearing only tops…
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Why I choose to volunteer in Bulgaria
Volunteering in Bulgaria had been on my wish list for about three years before I finally got round to filling in the application form for a two week placement with TBACT. I had seen the BBC documentary that exposed the neglect of children in state care and had told myself one day I would go…
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Government U-turn fails to stop protests
Bulgaria’s coalition government is under severe pressure to resign after only three weeks in office following several days of protests across the country. The latest series of demonstrations began on Friday when Delyan Peevski was named head of the powerful state agency for national security DANS. He has no experience in the security field but…
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