News archive 2011
22.12.2011.
The Center for work with street children held a Christmas party, in
which the main role was played by the children. They surprised the audience
with a Christmas play, many songs and poems. Finally, they were deservingly
rewarded with gifts from Santa Claus.
16-17.12.2011.
The second thematic Forum of Project RISE was held in Nis, Republic
of Serbia. This time the topic of the meeting was "Best practices
in social services for adults". It was attended by representatives
of social providers on both sides of the Bulgarian-Serbian border. A
press conference for the local media was held, too.
02-03.12.2011.
The first thematic forum of project RISE entitled "Best practices
in social services for children" was held in Vidin. It was attended
by experts from the Bulgarian-Serbian border area who work in various
social institutions and community social services providers. The meeting
ended with a press conference for the local media.
01.12.2011.
On the World day to fight with AIDS, Free Youth Centre was included
in the local campaign together with the Committee to fight with the
virus. FYC Volunteers attached red ribbons and posters. They consulted
and motivated their peers to test they HIV - status in the local laboratory.
The basketball game "All Stars" dedicated to the cause of
the campaign was organised again. The volunteers played a thematic scene
under the campaign slogan "Condomise yourself" in one of the
game pauses.
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03.11.2011. Free Youth Centre which implements a project under Objective
7 of the Programme "Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS" organized
a seminar for acquiring knowledge and skills on the topics of sexually-transmitted
diseases, HIV/AIDS, surfactants, contraception, vulnerable groups and
outreach for the volunteers - peer educators in Parshenitsa
21.09.
- 28.09.2011. Volunteers which will work under Objective 7 of the
Programme "Prevention and Control of HIV / AIDS" took part
in the Autumn school for advanced work through the method 'peer education',
which took place at national training centre of Bulgarian Red Cross
- Dolni Lozen.
30.08.2011.
First project RISE partner meeting
took place in Nis, Republic of Serbia between representatives of Free
Youth Centre and the hosting association for development of children
and youth "Open
Club" in accordance with the project start. The meeting closed
with a local media press-conference.
17.08.2011.
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01.08.2011.Тhe
official ceremony for awarding of the subsidy contracts under the Bulgaria-Serbia
IPA Cross-border Programme took place in the 1st of August 2011 in Sofia
(Dedeman Princes hotel, “Europe” conference hall). The Free Youth Centre
was one of the 44th organizations, awarded with a grant for its project
"RISE - Regional Integration with
a Social Effect". Project partner is Open
Club - Nis, R.Serbia.
09.06.2011.
With training for the team started the implementation of Component 5
"Improvement of TB case detection and treatment success among Roma
population". The Free Youth Centre was chosen for a local partner
of Ministry of Health, who is responsible for execution of the component
in Vidin. The programme is financing by Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculoses and Malaria.
30.05.2011.
The project "Enterprise for Integration" finished with a press
conference for the media. According to evaluation of the partners, the
project was successful. The main results are a new social enterprise,
employment and prepared local specialists in the sphere of social economy.
29.05.2011.
The FYC implemented one day training for providers of social services
in planning of the projects in sphere of social economy, based on the
model end experience from "Enterprise for Integration" project.
In the training participated 15 representatives of Municipal administrations
and NGOs from the Vidin region. .
11-15.05.2011.
The FYC representatives participated in a Youth in Action Programme
contact making seminar, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal. Except
from Bulgaria, other participating working with youth organizations
were from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Cyprus, Italy and from
hosting country Portugal.
27.04.2011.
In Vidin took place a meeting of Roma youth and local employers under
the project "Enterprise for Integration". The organizer of the event
was Business Centre Ltd. in cooperation with Labor Office - Vidin. The
aim of the meeting was encouraging of employment of Roma young people.
01.03.2011.
"Baba Marta"s coming was celebrated whit a short play in the
Centre for Work with Street Children in Vidin.
21.02.2011.
Sessions of individual and group supervisions of the project team of
"Enterprise for Integration" project and other specialists
in method of Meditative Intervening took place in Vidin. The supervisor
was Alexander Kanchelov, MD - the leading specialist in this field in
Bulgaria.
03.01.2011.
Gloria Yoshkova, a student from the "Ekzarh Antim I" high
school, started her voluntary service in Free Youth Centre. The volunteer
will support the work of the team with children in Centre for Work
with Street Children (a structure of FYC).
