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TABITHA VOLUNTEERS -SUMMER 2017

admin — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:47:51 +0000

TABITHA VOLUNTEERS -SUMMER 2017. WELL DONE GUYS!

Every year in the last 17 years Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation hosts volunteers from Holland, USA and UK at the social homes in Bulgaria They help the institutions with renovations, organize art work, play games and sports, visit swimming pools with the children and enjoy each other’s company. The volunteers help the kids get out of their isolation, socialize and face the real world.

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CORAWILL, Inc (US)

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:16:02 +0000

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They designed hands-on opportunities to work side-by-side with children and adults on vocational training, art, and facility improvement projects. They painted some of the rooms on the 3rd floor at Vratsa Home, supported the renovation of the WC and showers on the first floor, played with the children and organized the “Show of the talents’.

SOEST (NL)

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:45:22 +0000

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] 15 enthusiastic volunteers visited Bulgaria for 10 days in July and renovated the living room in Razliv Home, helped the youngsters at Razliv Home and played with the kids from Gourkovo Home.

EU Mobility Project

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:42:19 +0000

EU Mobility Project “Friendship overcomes differences” involving three activity groups under the partnership of Tabitha Bulgaria and Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg (Nl). We had more than 60 young people (Dutch and Bulgaria) learning about each others cuture, traditions, floklore. Working together their cultural differences were overcome and frendships were made.

Putten group in Roman Home (Activity group A)

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The group, most of whom had been few times to Roman and helped renovate the home, learnt a lot about Bulgaria traditions and culture, played with the kids and made new benches in the institution’s park. International Women’s Club attended the BBQ on the EU Day and contributed to the cross-cultural communication.

Bruchem group in Vratsa Home (Activity group B)

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It was the first visit of the group to Bulgaria and they were amased to learn so many things about the country, Vratsa, the culture and traditions. They helped with the renovation of the first floor showers and WC, painted part of the rooms on the 3rd floor and had big fun with the young people from the institution.

Wijk & Aalburg group in Stara Zagira (Activity group C)

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Most of the participants were new but they belonged to Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg which helped the institution turned into a lovely cosy family like home for the kids. The group worked on the project , painted the walls and renovated the storage rooms and had a lot of fun. It was hard to say goodbye….

The G.O.A.L Program (UK)

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 16:54:57 +0000

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The enthusiastic group of lovely teenagers with their mothers volunteered in Pleven Home for babies and also visited Roman and Razliv Homes. Members of the organization have been supporting the underprivileged kids with renovations, physiotherapists and Baba program for 3-4 years.ytl

Colour4kids (NL)

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:01:52 +0000

Three artists from Colour4kids(NL) stayed in Roman Home for a week and performed many art activities with the children. The children drew portraits of themselves, made jewelries and played games. The visitors also called on Vratsa and Pleven Homes where the organization had previously made serious renovations.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Stichting Kindertehuizen Bulgarije ’geloof, hoop & liefde which has been helping social homes in Bulgaria in the last 10 years and many children benefited from their support. They visited Bulgaria with famous photographers Jonathan Morris and Michel Porro who got deeply involved in fund-raising money for the underprivileged children in Bulgarian social institutions.
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They helped the children paint their dreams and made a film about it which would be launched in U-tube in late October.