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The three-day workshop was organized between 10 and 12 March in Lyaskovetz. At the beginning of the meeting Deyan Kolev presented the overall development of the project so far. He emphasized that in the first term just few children dropped (48 out of 10,000), but cases of dropouts are concentrated in four schools, where there is a need of specific intervention. During the subsequent focus groups "With attention for every child", we looked at individual cases of endangered children. Teachers who have prevented cases of children drop out shared their methods, we discussed the difficulties encountered in their work to date. New ideas for keeping children in school were exchanged. Every mentoring teacher presented his / her joint work with the pilot school or schools, as he or she emphasized on the work for keeping children at school.

Subsequent sessions were to address specific cases of dropped / endangered children in the pilot and mentoring schools. We discussed the methods mentoring teachers have used to solve problems and the results of the joint work between the mentoring and the pilot schools. We further discussed with every mentoring teacher how to respond to students at risk on time (information about them we gathered during the meeting with school directors, which we had organized 10 days earlier). It is the individual approach and the idea that school should be a place for every child that are leading in this project. 

We discussed also the methodological guidelines which Center "Amalipe" has developed accordingly to the specific situation in each of the 35 schools. They were presented by our expert prof. Maria Baeva which said that individual approach to every case of threatened / dropped-out and attention for every single child is the best and successful method for keeping children in school. The major elements of the school drop-out-prevention programs were discussed: creating of a student parliament / council, parents club / board of trustees, school for parents, introducing the practice of the students - mentors.

It turned out that after the meeting with the directors in February, some schools have already begun to implement these elements. "On 8 March we managed to attract 40% of the parents in the pilot school. The children greeted their mothers with poems and gave them souvenirs made by them in school. We used a case and presented the topic of early marriages, hoping to have influenced at least one family. Some condemn these actions, but there are those who keep the tradition. But our biggest success was the formation of the parents club entirely at the request of parents. We tried to be maximum specific about their commitments and responsibilities and we hope for significant success in our future joint activities. "Thank you for the valuable advices we receive in these workshops" - this is what one of the mentoring teacher shared about the pilot school "Vasil Levski" in the village of Vidrare.