28.10.2011Conference on social services and employment with regard to Roma community and the National Roma Strategy of Bulgaria
Over forty experts and politicians, representatives of leading Roma NGOs, national, regional and local institutions participated in the conference ‘Successful employment and social service practices in the Roma community’ Among them were Mr. Nikola Petkov (Secretariat of National Council for Cooperation of Ethnic and Integration Issues - NCCEII), Mrs. Elena Gyurova (Ministry of Labor and Social Policy), Mr. Stanislav Gavazov (National Employment Agency), Mrs. Pravda Ignatova (State Agency for Social Assistance), Mr. Georgi Bogdanov (Executive Director of National...
28.10.2011The Labor mediators shared their problems before national and European institutions
Twenty labor mediators selected to participate in European training program for Roma mediators ROMED, passed their second and last training from 25 to 27 October at the base of the MLSP in Kremikovtsi. Over the past six months between the two trainings they successfully performed their action plans, which developed together with the project trainers. Supposedly it was noted that the action plans have increased the efficiency in their work related to activation of inactive persons in the job search. Throughout this period Amalipe as a national contact organization...
27.10.2011Center Amalipe and Club K7 Veliko Tarnovo held a Week of reproductive health
In the days between 17th and 20th of October Center Amalipe with its volunteer’s HIV prevention club held trainings in four villages in the Veliko Tarnovo region. Those were the villages of Batak, Varbovka, Vodoley and Balvan. Five volunteers, members of the youth organization organized and implemented the trainings for their peers.
In the villages the volunteers worked mostly with children of Roma origin. Some of the presented topics were on the male and female reproductive systems including hygiene, contraception and sexually transmitted infections...
27.10.2011A conference for the health status of the Roma community and the National Roma Strategy took place in Stara Zagora
Over fifty experts and politicians, representatives of leading Roma non-governmental organizations, Ministry of Health, National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues (NCCEII), national, regional and local institutions, UNICEF, "America for Bulgaria" Foundation and other, participated in the conference "Successful practices and basic approaches to the improvement of the health status of the Roma community". It was held on October 26 (Wednesday) in the town of Stara Zagora and was organized by "World without borders" association - Stara Zagora, Center...
18.10.2011Ethnicity Folklore – Roma Folklore SIP Classes - training, fun, good spirits
There it is - today the six-day training seminar organized by CIDT Amalipe for teachers working in multicultural environment came to an end. Our dearest reader would have said '' ... So many seminars and stuff'' but …. , well, after each one of them our team is more positively charged as result of the meetings with principals, teachers and parents. And it could not have been otherwise, when we see how stereotypical thinking gives way to tolerance...
