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During three hours students from Roma Health Scholarship Program discussed with Minister of EU funds Tomislav Donchev the problems of access to healthcare and the quality of life in small living places. The Director of the Regional Health Insurance Fund Dr. Ivan Ivanov and the Director of the Regional Health Inspectorate Dr. Albena Lambeva also participated in the discussion. The event took place during a student’s conference “We are neither impersonal, nor Indifferent” organized by Center Amalipe as part of the Advocacy training for Roma medical students....

  Under the slogan “A step forward, every one of us can do it!” between 19th to 21st August 2011 in Mezdra a collaborative meeting with Roma moderators from the Centers for development of the community in the municipalities of Pavlikeni, Novi Pazar, Kameno, Peshtera, Etropole and Byala Slatina took place. The meeting was organized in the framework of the project for encouragement of the work on terrain in vulnerable groups of the Roma community, which is implemented by Center “Amalipe” and financed by the European Commission via program Dafne. The...

"Sport for All"   Under this motto on August 14th , 2011 under the scorching August sun atthe stadium of Vodoley village was held  football game between the mixed teams of young people - volunteers from the local clubs for community development in villages Balvan, Vodoley, Batak and Varbovka within the project of Center "Amalipe" for community monitoring of access to health care of vulnerable ethnic minorities, funded by the Open Society Institute New York.   The goal of the initiative was the young people to promote their local clubs and to involve new volunteers...

From 10th to 13th of August 2011 in the area near Veliko Tarnovo, named Lesopark was held a joint Voluntary camp, with the participation of activists from the local clubs for local development of Centre “Amalipe” in Batak, Vodoley,Varbovka and Balvan. This initiative was a part of the project for community monitoring of access to health of vulnerable ethnic minorities, funded by the Open Society Institute New York.   Young people from four clubs "Amalipe" became friends and shared experiences from the recently completed first community inquiry (under the methodology...

On July 29, 2011  by the initiative of the Ministry of labor and social policy and the Center for Human Resource Development and Regional Initiatives was held a round table on "Best Practices for Integration of Roma into the labor market in Bulgaria."The aim of the event was to help to accelerate and improve the welfare of Roma through exchange of experiences and best practices, and a prerequisite for the meeting was that the integration of Roma is a long term challenge facing government and society.   In recent years, labor mediation has become a successful model...