TABITHA BULGARIA’S REPORT ON THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN – 2025
HUGE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS!
Tabitha Bulgaria Easter Campaign 2025 turned out a great success!
Thanks to the commitment and generosity of our donors we managed to provide an enjoyable Easter for the children and young adults at the social institutions which Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation has been supporting for years.
We are grateful to Stichting Promotie (NL) for its understanding and commitment to the Easter holiday. It has been more than 15 years that they have been supporting the social institutions in Bulgaria for Christmas and Easter. We would like to express our personal gratitude to Mr. Maarten Koel, who has taken the needs of the less fortunate children in Bulgaria to his heart. We would like to acknowledge the active help of Tabitha Netherlands Foundation and the personal involvement of its Board and the Boitens.
Many thanks to the ladies from the SEWA (Sofia Expats Women’s Association) who fundraised some money for the campaign and personally attended the eggs’ coloring at the social home in Roman with the kids and the senior ladies. SEWA group brought them much food and goodies. Our new member Nazuba made delicious cookies for the event.
SEWA ladies participating in the coloring of eggs in Roman
We also want to recognize the kind donations made in the eve of Easter by Kelsa Smith-Mouskourova, Eileen Reagan and Philip Matov.
More than 600 underprivileged children and young adults at more than 30 social institutions benefited trough Tabitha’s Easter campaign 2025. We provided Easter goods to social homes, social complexes, Day Care-Centers for disable children and CNSTs in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnista, Mezdra, Pleven, Roman, Samokov, Star of Hope Foundation, Stara Zagora, and Vratsa. In the Eve of Easter, we managed to cheer up the dismal existence of many children and adults in need. Some fifty elderly people in dire straits from Roman and the region received packages for Easter too, provided by Stichting MAX Maakt Mogelijk (Nl). The execution of the project was done by Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation team who speared no time or efforts to provide the social homes with all the necessary goods for a happy Easter.
A lot of shopping
Easter packages for senior people in dire straits in Roman and the region
Tabitha’s Easter campaign included the following social institutions:
BOTEVGRAD – TWO CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION of DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS (60 km off Sofia) – 23 children and young people with serious mental and physical disabilities.
We brought them Easter bread, eggs, colors and lamb meat.
Food for the Easter diner. Delicious Easter diner
BOROVAN: NW 150 km off Sofia – Two Centres for accommodation of a family type – 22 children and young adults, aged 10 – 18. We provided eggs, Easter bread, food and Nutella!
Easter bread, eggs, meat and goodies for all the children! It is fun coloring eggs! Beautiful eggs!
BOROVAN – Center for support of personal development (Day Care Center for socially neglected children) – 150 children, aged 8-15.
Easter Celebration!
DREN HOME- “JOY”, 22 children, aged 4 – 18, some with disabilities. The institution is located 60 km SW off Sofia. We provided eggs, Easter bread, food for the official diner and goodies.
A lot of food and Easter Bread for the holidays Beautifully colored eggs
DUPNITSA SOCIAL HOMES: 33 children and adults, aged 8 – 19 years (CNST for disabled children – 14 children, CNST -12 and 8 at the transitional home). We brought them Eater bread, eggs and food for the holidays.
Food for the holidays Coloring eggs is a great Delicious Easter diner
MEZDRA 90 km NW off Sofia– 5 Centers for accommodation of a family type for 56 children and young adults, most of them with heavy disabilities.
The children are happy with cheese, salami, Easter Bread! Wonderful Easter dinner!
MEZDRA KINDERGARTEN “MIR”: children, aged 3-7 with many children from destitute families –from poor local villages.
Goodies to all the children from the kindergarten!
PLEVEN INFANT HOME for Medico-Social Cares, 180 km NE off Sofia, (70 kids, aged 0-5, and some older with heavy disabilities). They got a lot of goodies, eggs, Easter bread, baby boosters and medicines.
Tabitha Foundation provides for the home ;; physiotherapists, a neurologist, a speech therapist, financed by GOAL Inc(UK) and BAS. The Day Care Centre for disabled children was set up ny Tabitha Foundation.
What a fun is to color eggs and have goodies for the holiday!
ROMAN COMPLEX for social services – 130 km NW off Sofia – 60 children (30 children, aged
7-21, some with slight disabilities, accommodated in 2 CNSTs and a Transitional home. A Day Care Centre
for 30 disabled children from Roman region. We provide for them, 3 grannies on Baba program,
paid by BAS, Irish Appeal and Maarten Luykx, Bridge between generations project and summer
camps with volunteers.
At the coloring even before Easter we brought also a group of ladies from SEWA who donated extra money for the Easter, goodies and food
Easter bread and food! Coloring eggs is such a fun!
Senior ladies on Bridge between generations project Roman Day Care Centre for handicapped children
ROMAN CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF HADICAPPED CHILDREN (30 children with physical and mental disabilities, aged 6- 25). Most of the children and young people are heavily handicapped.
We brought them a lot of food, Easter bread and drinks for the Easter diner
SAMOKOV – CENTRE FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE – 12 children, aged 4-18, some 60 km off Sofia. We brought them eggs, colors, and Easter bread, chocolate goodies. Our foundation provides for the children cooking lessons and literacy through BAS (US) and two grannies, financed by Rotary Serdica Sofia and a group of foreign ladies who used to live in Bulgaria
Lots of food for Easter Coloring eggs is fun! Enjoying Easter!
STARA ZAGORA: 230 km east of Sofia – few CNSTs, protected houses. 38 children and young adults aged 10-19. Every summer we have volunteers from the Netherlands who have been helping all the social services in town for more than 15 years.
Coloring eggs and prepering for the Easter diner
STARA ZAGORA: 7 Centers for accommodation of a family type – 80 children and young adults,
aged 7-25, some with serious disabilities. The Dutch volunteers have been helping with renovation and the
children’s socialization.
Easter Bread, roasted lamb, colored eggs and goodies!
VRATZA Social homes,130 km NW off Sofia, (23 children, aged 7-18, few with slight disabilities and a transitional home). We brought them eggs, Easter bread, food and goodies. Every summer we have a Dutch group of volunteers financed by Samen Delen Foundation – Bruchem and two girls from Paris who help in the centres.
We brought eggs, colors and food for Easter! The children colored the eggs and had a great feast.
VRATSA – CNST for children and young adults with disabilities – 42 people, accommodated in 4 small group houses. We have provided for them 3 baba, and a physiotherapist, supported by BAS (US), Anelia Bacheva’s family and Glencore International AG. Every summer Dutch and French volunteers work with the children and help in the institution.
Tabitha’s delivery. Great joy to color and eat eggs for Easter.
VRATSA – Transitional home – 8 children and young adults, aged 15-19. We provided them with food for the Easter holidays.
It is fun to prepare for the Easter holidays
VRATSA – Mother and Baby Unit – 5 moms and babies. We are grateful to the many moms who sent clothes and diapers for the babies and to SEWA donation for Easter. We also brought them food, Easter bread and goodies.
We provided eggs, Easter bread, meat, milk, drinks, fruit, salads and goodies. We got extra support from SEWA.
STAR of HOPE – Protected house in Sofia – an apartment for 5 girls. Most of the young people who were accommodated in the apartment were brought up in the social institutions which our foundation supported. Some of the young people had participated in the educational and vocational programs we organized and thanks to the training and support they graduated from university.
All the food we bought. Preparing for Easter Enjoying the holiday
Here are the smiling faces of the children at Easter!
With gratitude from Tabitha Bulgaria Team and the children and young adults!