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  One hundred and two computers have been dispatched by CIEDT Amalipe to schools included in the project ‘Decreasing the Dropout Rate of Roma Children from School’, to Community Development Centers established under the Project ‘Promotion of Fieldwork in Traditional and Marginal Groups of the Roma Community’, to local groups of Roma and Romany NGOs in support of their activities with view to improve the educational level of Roma youth and to empower the Roma community. The computers are donation – second-hand through which the Municipality...

  22 trees will be planted in Pavlikeni to celebrate the coming of the spring. On March 23 at 13 h volunteers of the Center for Development of the Community Pavlikeni are planting 22 trees distributed by the Municipality of Pavlikeni in two of the town’s parks.  10 sycamore trees will be planted in the park near the Professional High School in Agriculture Technologies ‘Tsanko Tserkovski’ and the other 12 trees: 6 birches and 6 ‘Acer platanoides’ trees will be planted in the park situated near the town’s center. The planting of the...

  A work meeting with the directors of labor offices in Gorna Oryahovitsa, Levski and Byala and  the Roma mediators took place on March 12 in the old capital. The meeting was organized by Amalipe and marked the beginning of a series of meetings between those offices and Amalipe within the pilot project “Increasing the effectiveness of Roma labor mediators”, funded by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute – Budapest. How effective are the current Roma labor mediators, what needs to be changed...

  Within the project (financed by European Commission within PROGRESS Program) we plan to build four pilot Centers for Community Development (CCD) in the rural communities of Bulgaria. The Centers will work to overcome the problems of youth unemployment in rural areas and to provide new services in the community, with special focus (but not exclusively) on the Roma population. We will seek to ensure sustainability and wider application of the model at national and European level. In February 2012 there were sent notification letters for the start of the project to the...

  Informational tour on the ‘Let’s clean Bulgaria for one day’ campaign of bTV – Bulgaria started from the town of Pavlikeni. The initiative is part of the international campaign ‘Let’s do it world’. Educational part of the campaign started in the town of Pavlikeni by initiative of the Center for Community Development Pavlikeni created by Center Amalipe under ‘Promoting participatory field work among traditional and marginalized Roma communities’ project. Thus in the early afternoon of March 5, 2012 in the conference...