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     Community moderators from the Centers for Community Development in Bulgaria presented their work at the National Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. Besides the presentation of their activities, the Bulgarian moderators participated in traditional music festival that took place in the municipality of Menipeni , Thessaloniki.           The conference is part of the final work on the project "Promotion of fieldwork at the local level among traditional and marginalized Roma community", funded by the European...

  All of the mobile action teams working on the project To Touch the Untouchable- fighting with new and traditional anti-Roma stereotypes organized final campaign and press conference in order to present the project results.   Participants in the press conferences were the people working in the Intersectoral mobile action teams and representatives of other institutions, without which partnership the project results wouldn’t be possible, as well as participants in the trainings during the implementation of the project.  The participants shared their...

  Members of European Parliament, experts from European Commission,  academics, practitioners in housing and health took part in the seminar “Tackling Health Inequalities through Investing in Housing”. It was organized by European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and CECODHAS Housing Europe, hosted by the European Parliament URBAN Intergroup. The event took part on January 22 in the main building of European Parliament in Brussels. In the European Union (EU) alone there are about 80 million people living in relative poverty (estimates as of 2009). For far...

  Midwives' Day is one of the greatest folklore festivals dedicated to the "grandmothers" - women who helped in childbirth, young brides and brides who have delivered children. The rituals that take place this day is subject mainly to the desire to pay tribute and respect to older women who helped in childbirth. This holiday is pagan holiday and comes from pre-Slavic times, but has remained during the Renaissance and was extremely honored. Nowadays Midwifes day lost much of its ritual customs, but elderly people are still celebrating it and the celebration is associated...

  For the fourth consecutive year Center "Amalipe" organized public events to celebrate the holiday Vasilitsa - Roma New Year across the country. Over 140 schools and eleven Community Development Centers held ceremonies in which they announced Roma and Bulgarian parents, representatives of municipal and regional administrations in all regions of the country that Roma people keep their rich culture and traditions and all Bulgarians should be proud of it. Survakari from schools participating in the program Reducing the dropout of Roma students,  visited Sofia, where...