Program “THE FAMILY OF THE GOOD PEOPLE”
Total donated sum – 39 930 lv

		Provision of food stuffs, textbooks and beds, and also organization of visits to theatre performances, discotheques and treats for the children from the three orphanages in Rousse – Home “St. D. Basarbovski”, “Raina Gateva”, Home “Nadejda” at a total value of 3083 levs.
		Recently finished the first charity campaign, organized by foundation “Bistra and Galina’. The idea for it comes from the staff of the Special kindergarten “Zora” – Rousse (for children with mental and physical impairments). The team of the Foundation undertook the making and printing of Christmas cards and calendars, which were sold with the help of volunteers – students, the “Open Society” Club of Rousse, the School Association for Global Education SAGE, Leo Club, Lion’s Club Ister. The campaign raised 4347 levs, which covered the purchase of rehabilitation apparatuses, mechanical toys and supportive technique and consumer stuff for the children from the kindergarten.
	Fee payment for the graduation ball for 8 students of disadvantageous social status, studying at the “Geo Milev” ELS. The students are members of SAGE and have taken active part as volunteers in the campaign for Special kindergarten “Zora”, organized by the Foundation.
	Fee payment for the graduation ball of three disabled girls of disadvantageous social status;
	Providing food coupons for three months for 20 children of disadvantageous social status, studying at the “A. Kanchev” Primary School;
		Organizing a celebration for the children from the Home for Children and Young Girls “Raina Gateva” and some children of insufficient means, offered by the Municipal Social Support Service;
	Purchasing tickets for 350 children of insufficient means from different schools in Rousse for the children’s performance “Listen to the Little Ones” on 1st June;
	Organizing a children’s show on 1st June for the special needs children from Special Kindergarten “Zora”;
	Organizing a celebration of 1st June for the mentally impaired children from the classes of cooking and fitting at the Secondary Technical School of Machine Building “D. Burov”;
	Purchasing school materials and clothes for Galya (15), Temenujka (15) and Eleonora (17) Surbakovi, orphans;
	Payment of the fee for a course in mathematics of Yana Kadieva (14), semi-orphan;
		The Dutch of Bulgarian origin Elena Antonich, as a representative of the Dutch Charity Organisation “Stiching Dial Ysehulp Buitenland” donated through the Foundation 30 000 levs for organising a Day Centre for children with impairments at STSMB “A. Burov” and the orphans of Home “R. Gateva”, “St. D. Basarbovski”, “Nadejda” and the Red Cross Home for Homeless Children. The support is in the form of beds, school desks, teacher’s desks, cupboards, computers, clothes and soft toys;
		The Rousse Notaries Group set up four one-year grants through the Foundation, to be awarded to talented parentless children at the end of each year;.
		Financing the publishing of a poetry book “Children’s World”– of the works of up to 4th grade students at “A. Kanchev” Primary School. The collection consists of short poems and pictures by talented children, and the income from its selling will be used for providing catering for students of the school, who live in poor financial circumstances;
	On 7.12.2000 a charity concert was held, organized by the Foundation, which marked the starting point of a joint funds raising campaign “For the Smile of a Child” of the Foundation and SAGE. Its purpose was through selling Christmas and New Year’s greeting cards to raise funds for the building of a Day Center for the mentally impaired children and for the “Teachers’ Children” Fund. The “Children’s World” collection was promoted at the concert by performance of the young authors themselves. Some of the students awarded grants by the foundation also took part in the concert – musicians from the SSA “Prof. V. Stoyanov”, Children’s Ensemble “Zdravets”, Choir “Danubian Sounds”. Four talented young artists, supported by the Foundation, were presented during the concert. A charity auction was held on the following day with the works of the four masters of the brush. All the 25 canvases exhibited in the Plenary Hall of Rousse Municipality were bought by the art connoisseurs who attended the auction. During the challenging bidding, one of the pictures was sold for 230lv – the highest price offered at the auction. 20 children from “A. Kanchev” School also took part in the concert. By the initiative of the Municipal Social Support Service the Foundation undertook the financing of the breakfast and lunch meals of these children. At the concert the children, dressed in carnival costumes, gave flowers to the per.

back