TABITHA BULGARIA’S REPORT ON THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN – 2026
HUGE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS!
Tabitha Bulgaria Easter Campaign 2026 has been completed with great joy and satisfaction!
Once again our long standing donors helped us provide eggs, Easter bread and food for the underprivileged children and young adults on our list. Thanks to their commitment and generosity, we were able to bring joy for Easter to the children and young adults at the social institutions where Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation has been assisting /supporting for years.
We are grateful to Stichting Promotie (NL) for its understanding and help for the Easter holidays. It has been more than 16 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 fate 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.
More than 600 underprivileged children and young adults at over 30 social institutions benefited by Tabitha’s Easter campaign 2026. We provided Easter goods to social homes, social complexes, Day Care-Centers for disabled children and CNSTs in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dupnista, Mezdra, Pleven, Roman, Samokov, Star of Hope Foundation, Stara Zagora, and Vratsa. In the Eve of Easter, we cheered up the dismal existence of many children and adults in need.
It all started with a lot of shopping, travelling, visiting and distributing Easter goodies to the social homes.
Shopping and distributing food!
Tabitha’s Easter campaign included the following social institutions:
BOTEVGRAD – TWO CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION of DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS (60 km off Sofia) – 25 persons with severe mental and physical disabilities.
We brought them Easter bread, eggs, colors and lamb meat
Bringing lamb, eggs, and other goodies for the underprivileged inmates in Botevgrad
BOROVAN: NW 150 km off Sofia – Two Centers for accommodation of a family type – 15 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.
We provided them with Easter bread, chocolate eggs, juices, balloons and other goodies.
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 A lot of eggs, Easter bread 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 mental and physical disabilities
The children are happy with cheese, salami, Easter Bread, eggs! Wonderful Easter dinner!
MEZDRA KINDERGARTEN “MIR”: children, aged 3-7 with many children from destitute families –from poor local villages.
We brought them Easter bread, chocolate eggs, juices and other goodies.
PLEVEN INFANT HOME for Medico-Social Cares, 180 km NE off Sofia, (53 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: a physiotherapist, a neurologist, a speech therapist, financed by GOAL Inc(UK) and BAS. The Day Care Centre for disabled children was set up by 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 – 50 children (30 children, aged
7-21, some with slight disabilities, accommodated in 2 CNSTs and a Transitional home a Day Care Centre
for 20 disabled children from Roman region. We provide for them, 3 grannies on Baba program,
paid by Tabitha Netherlands and Irish Appeal, “Bridge between generations” project covered by Tabitha Netherlands and summer camps with volunteers.
At the coloring event, just before Easter, on Maundy Thursday we brought our one of the first volunteers from Holland and his wife who donated extra money the Easter
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. 50 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 preparing 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.
The children enjoyed full tables with Easter Bread, colored eggs and lamb.
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.
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 and to enjoy it
VRATSA – Mother and Baby Unit – 5 moms and babies. We also brought them food, Easter bread and goodies. The greatest joy for the Centre was the newly born baby of Emilia.!
We provided eggs, Easter bread, meat, milk, drinks, fruit, salads and goodies.
STAR of HOPE – Protected house in Sofia – an apartment for 5 girls. Most of the young people who were accommodated in the apartment in Sofia 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 or got a profession.
All the food we bought. Preparing for Easter Enjoying the holiday
Here are the smiling faces of the children at Easter!
