18.03.2011Workshop with mentoring teachers “With attention for every child”
In the days between 10 and 12 March in Lyaskovetz, Center Amalipe organized three-day workshop with mentoring teachers participating in the project "Prevention of Roma children drop out of school”. The project is a three-year program, funded by the Foundation “America for Bulgaria" and it intends to cover to end of the third year over 200 schools throughout the country. At the beginning of the meeting Deyan Kolev presented the overall development of the project so far. He emphasizes that in the first period fewer children dropped (48 out of 10 000),...
16.03.2011Meeting with representatives of the European Commission
Center Amalipe hosted a meeting with Dominique Be, Deputy Head of Unit at DG Employment of the European Commission, Bistra Valchanova and Raimonda Vysniauskiene from DG Employment to discuss the forthcoming high-level event “The Contribution of EU Funds for Roma integration” in Veliko Turnovo on June 23rd. The series of events will start on June 21st and 22nd in Sofia and will be followed by regional events in Veliko Turnovo on June 23rd and Burgas on June 24th. The EU and the Member States declare a special responsibility to improve the situation of Roma in Europe...
15.03.2011Establishing local community clubs and Pavlikeni and Veliko Turnovo
With great enthusiasm and willingness to work the activists from the local clubs of Center Amalipe in Pavlikeni and Veliko Turnovo joined the first initiatives organized by themselves. In Balvan twenty-five young people and parents for three days turned a destroyed and abandoned room into a friendly and welcoming place which the local action group has proudly called "our club". The young people have long dreamed to have their own place to meet and discuss their problems. The women from the village were also happy to join their children; the most active of them cleaned,...
13.03.2011Workshop with mentoring teachers “With attention for every child”
The three-day workshop was organized between 10 and 12 March in Lyaskovetz. At the beginning of the meeting Deyan Kolev presented the overall development of the project so far. He emphasized that in the first term just few children dropped (48 out of 10,000), but cases of dropouts are concentrated in four schools, where there is a need of specific intervention. During the subsequent focus groups "With attention for every child", we looked at individual cases of endangered children. Teachers who have prevented cases of children drop out shared their methods,...
10.03.2011"Together we are stronger"
The International Roma Day - April 8th was celebrated at four schools in Plovdiv region, which are participants in the project "Preventing the drop-out of Roma children": Primary school of the village of Bogdanitsa, Primary School "Hristo Botev", village of Brestovitsa, Primary School "Vasil Levski" village of Karadzhovo and Primary School "GS Rakovski "village of Bolyartsi. The festival "Together we are strong" in which all the four schools took part was held on April 8th in the library of Bolyartsi, Sadovo municipality. The festival program was divided...
