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  The project “Introducing intercultural education and equal access to quality education of Roma children in Veliko Turnovo Municipality” of Center Amalipe was approved by Ministry of Education and Science within the Scheme “Establishing favourable multicultural environment for introducing intercultural education”. Partners of Amalipe within the project are Municipality of Veliko Turnovo and 4 schools. Several activities will be realised within the project: establishing Municipal center for intercultural education, research on the family environment...

  Only 3 NGOs will take part in the election of observer from the civil society for the Monitoring Committee of the National Strategic Reference Framework on behalf of the so-called “social organizations” (a category that included “organizations working for minorities’s and migrants’ integration”). These are Equip Foundation, International Society for Sustainable Development and Cooperation and Center “Amalipe”. They were selected by commission established by the Minister of Finance Plamen Oresharski. In February the Ministry...

  The first session for 2008 of the Council for Roma Integration in the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy took place on March 25 in Sofia. It was chaired by the National Coordinator of the Decade of Roma Inclusion Mr. Baki Huyseinov. Deputy-minister Huyseinov presented the results from 12th session of the International Steering Committee of the Decade of Roma Inclusion. He outlined that Bulgaria had received high rating for its integration activities. He pointed as extremely important that Spain, Bosnia and Albania had declared their will to become Decade members...

You can find in this issue of our newspaper: OBSERVER: the news in brief # Comissioner on human rights of the Council of Europe # Delay of technical supplies and miss-communication with Ministry of Health Care disturb seriously a Phare project # Roma representatives required broader Roma participations in Phare projects for educational integration # NCCEDI  with new members FOCUS: The delegated school budgets and the education of Roma children KHERE ( AT HOME): # Roma activists from Veliko Turnovo region met the Policy Officer of the U.S. Embassy # Roma-American...

  The traditional Bulgarian folklore custom Bachelor’s wedding (Men’s marriage) was organized in the village of Kamen, Veliko Tarnovo region. The “wedding” takes place every leap year at Sirni Zagovezni feast and it is typical only for Veliko Tarnovo region. It is celebrated also in the village of Prisovo, Kilifarevo town and so on. Only men (bachelors) take part in the custom. They dress like the different personages of the wedding-guests: the bride and the groom, the mother-in-law, the bridesmaids and the other women. In the village of Kamen...