Projects
School for parents - Let's grow up together!
What is early childhood development (ECD)?
Early childhood development involves all the support that a child needs from their prenatal development to the age of 8 in order to realize their right to survival, protection and care, which will ensure their optimal development. It covers such...
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A Family for Every Child
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Every five hours, a child in Bulgaria is placed with an institution. Each year, an average of 2 000 Bulgarian children are abandoned and institutionalised. They grow up with no chance of adequate development and family care. The institutional...
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Foster Care
Children deprived of parental care long for a home and family. They, too, want to hug and be hugged, to love and be loved... just like any other child. Being a foster parent is not difficult, nor is it difficult to help Foster Care reach as many children as possible.The campaign aims to...
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Support to Reach the Unreachable Children
"The main objective of the project is to develop a new model of social service provision at community level addressing the needs of the disadvantaged children and families in one of the poorest regions of the country."
In January 2009 a Memorandum of Understanding and Grant Agreement with the...
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Hope for Children in Haiti
UNICEF Bulgaria joined the international efforts to support children in Haiti and launched an emergency fundraising campaign on 22nd January 2010.
The campaign HOPE FOR CHILDREN IN HAITI has collected so far 1 million 600 thousand BGN. Only for one evening many Bulgarians from...
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Early Childhood Development
Communication with the child during the first three years builds his/her attitude to the world.
UNICEF's Campaign for Early Childhood Development
UNICEF Bulgaria launched a communication campaign " The silence today bears the cries of tomorrow " for early childhood development, which...
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Playground for ability development
In October 2009 "Playground for Ability Development" was opened in the city of Rousse as a new model for integrated health-social community based service in support to children with disabilities and their families .
The project "Playground for Ability Development" in Rousse provides...
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Prevention of Violence against Children
Protection from violence, exploitation and abuse is a fundamental right of every child and a priority area of concern for UNICEF. We advocate and support the creation of a protective environment for children in partnership with governments and national/international partners including the...
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Regional Planning of Social Services
In 2009, UNICEF piloted a model of regional planning of social services with participation of all stakeholders in three pilot regions in the country ( Pernik, Vidin and Ruse ), ensuring better access to social services and more efficient and effective use of resources. The project was...
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Support to Deinstitutionalization
One of the priorities in UNICEF Programme in Bulgaria for the period 2006-2009 was assisting the process of deinstitutionalization by means of direct work with municipalities in planning and implementing of alternative community based social services. Decreasing the number of children in...
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Support to Children in Mogilino
On 31.08.2010. was held the official opening of the last of the Small Houses for the children from Mogilino. This ended up UNICEF's project for closing down the Mogilino institution, which was supported by the bTV fundraising show "The Magnificent Six".
The Project "Children First" was...
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Child Friendly Municipality
This is a town, city, municipality or any local system of governance, committed to ensuring children's rights. This is a town where the voices, needs, priorities and rights of the children are an integral part of public policies, programmes and decisions. The Child Friendly Municipality...
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Eliminating Tetanus
Tetanus is a preventable disease responsible for the death of one baby approximately every three minutes and of up to 30,000 mothers each year. The global review "Participate, Vaccinate, Eliminate: Together Against Maternal and Newborn Tetanus" confirms that the elimination of maternal and...
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Prevention of drop-outs
Education occupies a top position in the value system of Bulgarians and this priority has gained an increased importance in the process of modernizing the economic and social structures in the country. A large number of children drop out from school or even never go to school, thus leading to...
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