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  Over 110 school principals took part in the work meeting, which was held from 2 to 6 July in complex ‘Lesoparka’, near the town of Lyaskovets.   Meeting was held on two stages: first was from 2 to 4 July (for Northwestern Bulgaria schools) and second was from 4 to 6 July (for Northeastern Bulgaria schools). The meetings were organized by the Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance Amalipe within ‘Reducing the dropout rate of Roma children’.   The project is a 3-year program which is being realized by Amalipe Center with...

  From June 28 to July 1 an international meeting of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM) based in Paris, France was held in Sofia. Over 20 participants from Denmark, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, France, Italy, Romania and Bulgaria participated in the preparation of Roma Pride 2012 and presented the activities of their organizations to combat racism and discrimination. Bulgaria was represented at the meeting by the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee and  the Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance – Amalipe, Veliko Tarnovo. During...

    The third meeting of the Steering Committee of “Promoting participatory field work at grass-root level in marginalized and traditional Roma communities” project was held in Brussels on June 27. Representatives of the project partners, national institutions responsible for Roma integration and partner NGOs took part in it. Dimitar Dimitrov presented the main findings from the mid-term evaluation of the Community Development Centers in Bulgaria carried out by Mariana Milosheva, George Bogdanov and him. There is no doubt that the work of the Centers...

Representatives of European Commission, Fundamental Rights Agency, member of European Parliament, national governments of Bulgaria and Romania, national and European Roma organizations, OSF, UNICEF and other stakeholders discussed how to build comprehensive, multilayered and participatory monitoring and evaluation system of the National Roma Integration Strategies. This happened during the Hearing “M&E of the NRIS” organized by AMALIPE Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance (Bulgaria), Romani CRISS (Romania), National Roma Centrum (Macedonia), European...

  On the occasion of International Anti-drug Day volunteersfrom K7 Club decided to organize a campaign in front of Veliko Tarnovo Municipality. Volunteers handed out to passerby’s condoms and health education materials and explaining the harms of drugs. Nowadays many young people have used drugs, while others probably are going to try. This desire comes from the desire of young people to copy their peers or television characters who lead irresponsible lives. Many people living with HIV are intravenous drug users in particular. HIV is most concentrated in the blood...