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 Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev conferred orders for honour on 25 activists in the field of children’s rights and on UNICEF Bulgaria. 
The orders for honour were awarded for their exceptional contribution and work to strengthen and defend children’s rights in the Republic of Bulgaria and on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"On this day, November 20, twenty-five years ago, the world recognized international treaty that children have the inherent and inalienable rights as adults - the right to a name, nationality, freedom of thought and expression, the right to protection and equal opportunities. On this day, 194 Member States of the UN have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They took the bold political commitment, not only to respect but also to ensure the conditions for their implementation," President Rosen Plevneliev stated. Among the awared was the Chairman of Center "Amalipe" Deyan Kolev. 

“We walked through a long a way of convincing that every single child has its own rights, to the exact reforms and projects, which were funded from the European Funds”, the President Plevneliev pointed out. A lot is already accomplished, but a lot is also remains to build and needs to be done; we are to realize the planned reforms – in the youth justice, in education, healthcare”, Plevneliev also stated. According to his words, we do not talk about particular individual rights anymore, but for the economical benefits from setting up an environment which ensures their application. “Researches from UNICEF show that encouraging youngsters in their earlier childhood has its positive outcome. Increasing of life expectancy with one year leads to 4% increase in the economical production and each year in addition in schooling leads to increasing the potential income with approx. 10%”, Plevneliev stated.

 With an emotional speech, the director of NMD Georgi Bogdanov, thanked in behalf of the conferred. He draw attention to the lot of the work done with the example , that when they started working with children in the early 90s, there were the huge number of 30 000 children without homes and family, referring to the total count of only 4000  today. At the same time Mr. Bogdanov did not let through the rest challenges: a very serious issue in the country is children poverty, every second child is considered poor. The functional illiteracy is extremely shocking for our country, and thousands of children drop out of the educational system, some of them do not even have the chance to be first grade. There are huge hollows in the children justice, often children who are victims of violence are interrogated several times including  cross-investigation in court which is in contradiction to all EU standards, Bogdanov pointed out. In behalf of all conferred he dedicated the prizes to the thousands teachers, medics, social workers and all in field for children prosperity.

President Plevneliev concluded the ceremony with the words that the dedicated labor and motivation of the defenders of children rights as the awarded, are our best guaranty for implementing the Convention for the better future of the children.  

“I accept this award in recognition not only for me and Center Amalipe, but for all those who work for the better education of Roma children” Deayn Kolev stated when receiving the order of honor. “Thank you for what you do!” The President Plevneliev responsed. He wished to visit a school which works with the organization and ensures of the effect achieved.