TABITHA BULGARIA’S REPORT ON THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN – 2026

                            HUGE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS!

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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.

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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VRATSA – Transitional home – 8 children and young adults, aged 15-19. We provided them with food for the Easter holidays.

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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.!

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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.

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All the food we bought.                Preparing for Easter                          Enjoying the holiday     

Here are the smiling faces of the children at Easter!

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REPORT ON TABITHA BULGARIA FOUNDATION’ S CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN 2025  

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WE WISH A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 2026 TO

ALL OUR DONORS, SUPPORTERS AND   FRIENDS!

We are happy to share that Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation’s Christmas campaign 2025 was successfully accomplished!  More than 35 social institutions with nearly 600 children and young adults received presents, food and parties for Christmas and the New Year.

Tabitha Bulgaria’s Christmas campaign would have been impossible without the generous help from our donors, volunteers and friends, their efforts, kind understanding and commitment to the Bulgarian underprivileged children and people. Regardless of the financial crises, the soaring up inflation, the political restlessness we still managed to cheer up many destitute children and young adults. Another 75 low-income senior people from Roman and the region were supported with winter packages, Christmas party, presents and fire wood. Our generous donor Max foundation(Nl) provided means to buy stable food on a regular basis for 50 elder people in Roman for 6 months in a raw. (November 2025– April 2026).

More than a decade and a half, Stitching Promotie has been taking the fate of the Bulgarian underprivileged children at Christmas to its heart and has allocated money for the yuletide.  Without their generous financial support, we would not have been able to launch Tabitha Bulgaria’s Christmas campaign.  As ever we are especially grateful to Maarten Koel for his kind heart and personal involvement in the Christmas campaign for the   social homes in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnitsa,  Mezdra, Pleven, Roman, Samokov, Stara Zagora, Vratsa and Sofia.

We are blessed to have had the continuous support of Tabitha Netherlands Foundation which has made all activities possible. We would   like to acknowledge the 26-years of support from Tabitha Netherlands and especially from the Board and the Boitens for their steady moral guidance and financial assistance which has enabled Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation to do its work.

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PROMOTIE  Tabitha-Netherlands Board Bulgarian Orphan Fund    Amarillo Chreche – Ireland   SEWA’s visit

Tabitha’s Christmas campaign was preceded by a lot of shopping,  making presents , logistic  and travelling by Tabitha’s team.

TABITHA FOUNDATION CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN provided presents, parties and food for  the following social institutions in Bulgaria:

BOROVAN  (NW Bulgaria – 140 km off Sofia) – 2 Centre for accommodation of a family type – 20 children and young adults’ aged 9-19. In Borovan we also provided for the Centre for community support and personal development “M.Belmustakova” for 130 underprivilaged children.  

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Food for Christmas + goodies              .                           Presents for the M.Belmostakoa Center

TWO BOTEVGRAD CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE – there are 24 children and young adults, aged 6-25, some with serious mental and physical disabilities.  We brought them food.

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CNST Dr.P.Ivanov       CNST Dr.I.Tzenov

We cheered up two Centres for 25 children and young adults with disabilities the Christmas season at the   Centres    with presents and food!

DREN – 2 Centres for accommodation of a family type “Joy” – 16 children, aged 9- 18 years.  We brought them goodies and presents for Christmas.

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We brought some joy and fun with presents and goodies to the young adults!

DUPNITSA SOCIAL HOMES – 32 children and adults 7- 19 years of age: two Centres for accommodation of a family type for children with disabilities and a Centre for healthy children and a Transitional House for adults who are due to leave the institution soon. We provided for them food and chocolate treats for the Christmas holidays.

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They had great diner for Christmas and the New Year’s Eve with the food we brought them.

 MEZDRA –  Complex for children with mental and physical disabilities (55 children and adults, age 4-35, accommodated in 4 Centres, a protected house for 6 young people and a transitional home for 10 adolescents.    We bought them food and bags with delicious treats. Some of the adults came to perform dances at a restaurant in Mezdra for the children from Roman social complex. We also provided presents and booklets with colour pencils for the kids from low-income families at the local kindergarten (130 children).

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Food for Christmas                           Kids from a kindergarten for low-income families

PLEVEN – Home for medico-social cares 60-70 kids, 0 – 4, 5 years, more than 80% of them bed-ridden or with    serious mental and physical problems. The party was attended by St. Clause who distributed toys, sweets, and chocolates to the kids. We supported 5 grandmothers there and some urgently needed specialists through the generous financial support of Broken Wall (US) charity and G.O.A.L. Inc. The Bulgarian American Association finances a physiotherapist which is of utmost need for the kids with disabilities.

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Kids enjoying the presents and the beautiful Christmas tree.  

Kids enjoying the presents and the party! The plush toys were presents from our volunteers Neda and her three kids.

ROMAN 1   –  Complex for social services for children and families: 55 children and young adults (2 Centres for accommodation of a family type and a Transitional apartment for young adults who are due to leave the institution, 30 persons) and 25 children from the Day Care Centre for disabled children from Roman and the region. Thanks to our friends from the Bulgaria Orphan Appeal we organized for them a Christmas dinner in Mezdra with presents, DJ and we provided food for Christmas and New Year’s dinners.  We support grannies on Baba Project, financed by Tabitha Netherlands, by BAS(US) and Bulgaria Orphan Appeal. In 2025, thanks to Bulgarian American Society(BAS), Tabitha Bulgaria also maintain the rewarding program Bridge between generations there.

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Great party with dinner, presents and performance

ROMAN 2 – Three Centres for accommodation of a family type for children and young adults with disabilities – 30 persons.  The children received Christmas presents and treats. We brought them a lot of food for the Christmas holidays from our Irish friends, the Bulgarian orphan appeal.

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Much food for the Christmas and New Year’s Eves diners, parties and presents

SAMOKOV CENTRE FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE. – 12 children, aged 4-18 years. We brought them goodies and crocs. The kids welcomed us with Christmas cookies which they made during their cooking lessons, which Tabitha Foundation finances. We maintain 2 babas there one by Rotary Club Serdica and one by 5 former IWC ladies syndicate Cathy, Carole, Eileen, Lisa and Lyndsay. Tabitha Netherlands provides literacy and cooking lessons there.

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The kids had a wonderful Christmas with St. Clause and presents, toys, beautiful crocs.

STARA ZAGORA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS – Every summer we have volunteers from Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg(NL) who play with the kids, do some renovations and cheer up the life of the kids. With the money the group sent us for Christmas we bought additionally bedlinen and bath towels. We also bought presents for the Pensioners’ Club, renovated by Wijk&Aalburg and to Tabitha’s scholarship holder, supported by W&A, by Ivan and Philip Matov’s group and by Lina Valcheva.

– 42 people altogether, accommodated in 4 social institutions, translational and protected houses with director Plamen Bahov.

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Presents and food for the children and the young people.

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            Presents for the Pensioners’s Club                     Our scholarship holder

 STARA ZAGORA 7 Centres for accommodation of a family type – 90 children and adults with director Nellie Badjakova, most of them with physical and mantal problems,aged 7-19. They all received goodies and food

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Delicious Christmas dinner and presents for all the children

     VRATZA SOCIAL COMPLEX, (54 children) consisting of 3 Centres for accommodation for disabled children   – 42 children and adults, aged 6 – to over 25 years and a transitional home for 8 young adults. VRATZA CENTRS FOR ACCONNODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE, Transitional Home, 23 children and young adults (aged 7-25).

We provided food and presents for all of them. Though some of the kids were in invalid chairs they were also included in the celebration and everybody enjoyed the party and the presents.  We support 3 grannies on Baba project, financed by Anelia Bacheva and family and Corawill Inc.. Bulgarian American Association pays for a spare time physiotherapist which is a blessing for the children and young adults with disabilities.

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Many presents and food for the children from CNST   and Transitional home in Vratsa

UNIT for Moms and children in Vratsa – 5 moms (one is pregnant) and 4 kids. Most of the mothers are underage or have suffered domestic violence. Thanks to Maggie Linkova’s donation we brought presents for the moms and the children. Tabitha Foundation also provided food for Christmas and the New Year Eves. Last summer Dutch and French volunteers finished repairing the rooms of the Centre and prepared them for the newly-born babies.

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Enjoying the party and the presents!

STAR OF HOPE Shelter house in Sofia. The house is accommodated by young girls from Roman, Lom and Vratsa social institutions which Tabitha has supported. Most of the girls we have known from small kids.

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The girls receivied food and presemts and enjoyed both Christmas and New Year’s diners.

                SMILING FACES, HAPPY CHILDREN, ENJOYING THE PRESENTS AND THE FOOD!

                                                                                              HAPPY, HEALTHY AND BLESSED 2025!

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                            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.

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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.  

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A lot of shopping   

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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.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Lamb for the Easter diner Fun coloring eggs!

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Easter bread and food!                                                     Coloring eggs is such a fun!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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All the food we bought.                Preparing for Easter                          Enjoying the holiday

Here are the smiling faces of the children at Easter!                                                                              

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With gratitude from Tabitha Bulgaria Team and the children and young adults!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!  REPORT ON TABITHA BULGARIA FOUNDATION’ S CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN 2024   

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  HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 2025 TO ALL OUR DONORS, SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS!

We are happy to inform you that Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation successfully completed 2024 Christmas campaign!  More than 30 social institutions with nearly 600 children and young adults received presents, food and fun for Christmas and the New Year.

Tabitha Bulgaria’s Christmas campaign would have been impossible without the generous help from our donors, volunteers and friends, their efforts, kind understanding and commitment to the Bulgarian underprivileged children and people. Regardless of the financial crises, the soaring up inflation, the political restlessness we still managed to cheer up many destitute children and young adults. Another 75 low-income senior people from Roman and the region were supported with winter packages, Christmas party, presents and fire wood. Our generous donor Max foundation(Nl) has provided means to buy stable food on a regular basis for the elder people in Roman every month, for a period of 6 months (November 2024– April 2025).

In the last 15 years Stitching Promoties considered the Bulgarian underprivileged children needs for the Christmas holidays and allocated money for the yuletide.  Without their generous financial support, we would not have been able to launch the Christmas campaign.  As ever we are especially grateful to Maarten Koel for his kind heart and personal involvement in the Christmas campaign for the   social homes in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnitsa,  Mezdra, Pleven, Roman, Samokov, Stara Zagora, Vratsa and Sofia.

As ever we had the continuous support from Tabitha Netherlands Foundation which made all activities possible. We would   like to acknowledge the 25-years of support from Tabitha Netherlands and especially from the Board and the Boitens for their steady moral guidance and financial assistance which has enabled Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation to do its work and not fail the expectations of the less fortunate.

We would like to recognize the many-year dedication and ceaseless help of Bulgarian Orphan Fund (Ireland) at Christmas, especially of Catherine Barkley’s, her wonderful sister Miriam, family, relatives, friends and colleagues which made the children in Roman very happy. Thanks to their generous Christmas donation we provided food for the children for Christmas and the New Year Eve’s dinners, a beautiful party with presents and a  DJ at a restaurant in Mezdra.

We also received financial means from SEWA (Sofia Expats Women’s Association) to liven up the disabled children with special needs in Vratsa and the Centre for Moms and babies. We brought them presents, goodies and food for the holidays

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PROMOTIE      Tabitha-Netherlands Board    Bulgarian Orphan Fund            SEWA

The help of our families and friends was greatly appreciated. They gave us a hand in packing the presents for the social homes.  We would like to recognize the help of our volunteers Iliana Stoilova, Svetla Draganova, the generous financial support of Kelsa Smith- Moushkourova, Eileen and Tony Reagen,  Anne Pedersen and many others who helped us, make it through the Christmas campaign in December 2024. We are also thankful to Maria Soskova and her family for their financial support for Moms and Babies ’Unit in Vratsa. The regular New Year’s initiative of Ivan and Philip Matovs and their friends who fund-raised 1515 BGN at their party at the Eve of 2025 was greatly appreciated!

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Volunteers                                      Maria Soskova-Miller  Kelsa Smith- Moushkourova   Anne Pederson

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Ivan and Philip Matovs and friends            Eileen Reagen

Tabitha’s Christmas campaign was preceded by a lot of shopping,  making presents , logistic  and travelling by Tabitha’s team.

TABITHA FOUNDATION CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN provided presents, parties and food for  the following social institutions in Bulgaria:

BOROVAN  (NW Bulgaria – 140 km off Sofia) – 2 Centre for accommodation of a family type – 22 children and young adults’ aged 9-19 living in dire straits. In Borovan we also provided for the Centre for community support and personal development “M.Belmustakova” for 30 underprivilaged children.  

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Presents for the children            .                           Presents for the M.Belmostakoa Center

     TWO BOTEVGRAD CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE – there are 24 children and young adults, aged 6-25, some with serious mental and physical disabilities.  We brought them presents and food.

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We cheered up the Christmas season at the Centres with presents and food!

DREN – 2 Centres for accommodation of a family type “Joy” – 22 children, aged 8- 17 years.  We brought them goodies and presents for Christmas.

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We brought some joy and fun with presents and goodies to the young adults!

DUPNITSA SOCIAL HOMES – 32 children and adults 7- 19 years of age: two Centres for accommodation of a family type for children with disabilities and a Centre for healthy children, Transitional House for adults who are due to leave the institution soon. We provided for them slippers and bags with chocolate treats.

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They were happy with the presents and goodies we gave them

 MEZDRA –  Complex for children with mental and physical disabilities (60 children and adults, age 4-35, accommodated in 4 Centres, a protected house for 6 young people and a transitional home for 10 adolescents.  We bought them food and bags with delicious treats. We also provided presents and booklets with colour pencils for the kids from low-income families at the local kindergarten (55 children).

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Food for Christmas                       Kids from a kindergarten for low-income families

PLEVEN – Home for medico-social cares 60-70 kids, 0 – 4, 5 years, more than 70% of them bed-ridden or with    serious mental and physical problems. The party was attended by St. Clause who distributed toys, sweets, and chocolates to the kids. We support 5 grandmothers there and some urgently needed specialists through the generous financial support of Broken Wall (US) charity and G.O.A.L. Inc..

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Kids enjoying the presents and the beautiful Christmas tree.  

ROMAN 1   –  Complex for social services for children and families: 55 children and young adults (2 Centres for accommodation of a family type and a Transitional apartment for young adults who are due to leave the institution, 30 persons) and 25 children from the Day Care Centre for disabled children from Roman and the region. Thanks to our friends from the Bulgaria Orphan Appeal we organized for them a Christmas dinner in Mezdra with presents, DJ and we bought them food for Christmas and New Year’s diners.  We support grannies on Baba Project, financed by Maarten Luykx(Nl), by BAS(US) and Bulgaria Orphan Appeal. Thanks to Bulgarian American Society(BAS) Tabitha Bulgaria also maintain a rewarding program Bridge between generations there.

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Happy kids dancing                         Christmas party with presents                 Great team!

ROMAN 2 – Three Centres for accommodation of a family type for children and young adults with disabilities – 30 persons.  The children received Christmas presents and treats. We brought them a lot of food for the Christmas holidays from our Irish friends, the Bulgarian orphan appeal.

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Much food for the Christmas and New Year’s Eves diners, parties and presents

SAMOKOV CENTRE FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE. – 14 children, aged 4-18 years. We brought them food and presents. The kids not only performed for us but had also cooked lunch and Christmas cookies to treat us. We maintain 2 babas there one by Rotary Club Serdica and one by 5 former IWC ladies syndicate Cathy, Carole, Eileen, Lisa and Lyndsay.

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The kids had a wonderful Christmas with St. Clause, delicious meal and presents

STARA ZAGORA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS – 38 people altogether, accommodated in 4 social institutions, translational and protected houses.

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Presents and food for the children and young people.

 STARA ZAGORA 7 Centres for accommodation of a family type – 90 children and adults, most of them with physical and mantal problems,aged 7-19. They all received presents and food for the Chrsitmas holidays. Every summer we have volunteers from Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg(NL) who play with the kids, do some renovation and cheer up the kids.

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Home-made ritual bread                 Delicious Christmas diner                                      Enjoying the presents!

             VRATZA CENTRS FOR ACCONNODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE, Transitional Home, 23 children and young adults (aged 7-25).

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Many presents and food for the children from CNST   and Transitional home in Vratsa

 VRATZA SOCIAL COMPLEX, (54 children) consisting of 3 Centres for accommodation for disabled children   – 42 children and adults, aged 6 – to over 25 years and a transitional home for 8 young adults.  We provided food and presents for all of them with the help of SEWA (Sofia Expats Women’s Association). We visited the party together with ladies from SEWA who brought goodies for all the children. Though some of the kids were in invalid chairs they were also included in the celebration and everybody enjoyed the party and the presents.  We support 3 grannies on Baba project, financed by BAS, Corawill Inc and some extra the support of Tabitha’s donors.

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Enjoying the party and the presents!

UNIT for Moms and children in Vratsa – 5 moms and 7 kids. Most of the mothers are underage or have suffered domestic violence. Thanks to SEWA we brought presents for the moms and the children, food for Christmas and the New Year Eves. The ladies from SEWA visited the Unit to give the presents. Last summer Dutch and French volunteers repainted the rooms of the Centre and prepared them for the newly-born babies.

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SEWA and Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation cheered up the life at the Unit! We cheered

STAR OF HOPE Shelter house in Sofia. The house is accommodated by young girls from Roman, Lom and Vratsa social institutions which Tabitha has supported. Most of the girls we have known from small kids.

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The girls received food and presents and enjoyed both Christmas and New Year’s diners.

SENIOR PEOPLE in Roman and the region – 50 elder people with low income received 2 m³ fire-wood and 50 people got winter packages, containing 2 kg of flour,2 l of cooking oil, rice, beans, lentils, sugar, instant soups, macaroni, biscuits, waffles, meat and fish cans, tomato paste coffee and jam.

Like every year in the last 12 years we received a generous lump sum from the Foundation MAX Maakt   Mogelijk (NL) for the old people with low income in the town of Roman and the region through “Tabitha Netherlands” and the personal commitment of Rients Boiten.  They also have provided winter help for 6 months in a row. Another group of 25 elderly received a wonderful Christmas party with food and presents. That made the day of their life.

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Regular food supply, for 6 months and wood, distributed to 50 underprivileged people

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Party and presents for 25 senior people                               We also received presents from the senior.

HAPPY CHILDREN WITH MANY PRESENTS

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SMILING FACES, HAPPY CHILDREN, ENJOYING THE PRESENTS AND THE FOOD!

                                                                             HAPPY, HEALTHY AND BLESSED 2025!

TABITHA BULGARIA TEAM                                                     

/ALBENA & GEORGE/                                                   

TABITHA BULGARIA’S REPORT ON THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN

                  HUGE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS!

Easter has always been one of our favorite holidays and the children and young adults at the social institutions love it. In 2024 we got a donation from Promotie Foundation which allowed us to launch the regular Tabitha Easter campaign.  We provided Easter Bread, eggs, colors and chocolate goodies to over 600 children, young adults at the social homes in Botevgrad, Roman, Mezdra, Vratsa, Borovan, Pleven, Dren Dupnitsa, Saomokov, Stara Zagora and Sofia. The last couple of years were rather turbulent because of the very high inflation over 30%, the war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East.     However, 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 their understanding and commitment to the Easter holiday. It has been more than 15 years that they have supported the social institutions in Bulgaria for Christmas and Easter. We would like to express our personal gratitude to Mr. Maarten Koel, who never failed to cheer up the the less fortunate children in Bulgaria at such holy days.  We would like to acknowledge the active help of Tabitha Netherlands Foundation and the personal involvement of its Board.

We greatly appreciated the financial help

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.

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A lot of shopping                                                     

More than 600 underprivileged children and young adults from more than 30 social institutions benefited trough Tabitha’s Easter campaign 2024.  We provided Easter goods to social homes, social complexes, Day Care-centers for disable children and CNSTs in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnista, Gorski Senovets, 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.

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Happy smiling kids with colored eggs, Easter bread and presents!

Tabitha’s campaign also included some elder people participating in the project Bridge between generations from Roman   and a Pensioners ‘Club in Stara Zagora and also 50 destitute senior people from Roman and the region.

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The elder people from Roman and Stara Zagora got presents and food for the holidays.

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 have been supporting the two Centers with two grannies on our Baba program, financed by London Rotary and Lisa Freij’s family.  We brought them Easter bread, eggs, colors and lamb.

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Lamb for the Easter diner Fun coloring eggs!               Beautifully decorated eggs and tasty meal.!

BOROVAN:  NW 150 km off Sofia – Two Centres for accommodation of a family type – 22 children and young adults, aged 10 – 18.

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Easter bread, eggs, meat and goodies for all the children! Beautifully colored eggs!

BOROVAN – Center for support of personal development (Day Care Center for socially neglected children) Masha Belmostakova and children from low-income families 150 children, aged 8-15.

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Chocolate goods and juices          Easter Celebration!

DREN HOME- “JOY”, 22 children, aged 4 – 18, some with disabilities. The institution is 60 km SW off Sofia.

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A lot of food and Easter Bread for the holidays

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 have 3 grannies on the Baba project, one financed by the London Rotary Club, and the other two are supported by Mr. Marteen Luykx.

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Lot’s of food, eggs and Easter bread       Coloring eggs is a great fun

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.

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The children are happy with cheese, salami, Easter Bread! Wonderful Easter dinner!

MEZDRA KINDERGARTEN “MIR”:  68 children, aged 3-7 with many children from destitute families –from  poor local villages.

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We brought Easter bread, eggs and chocolate treats and books and notebooks.

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 chocolate, eggs, Easter bread, baby boosters and medicines. Tabitha Foundation provides for the home 3 physiotherapists, a neurologist, a speech therapist, financed by GOAL Inc(UK) and BAS.

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What a fun is to have a lot of eggs, tasty Easter bread amd chocolate goodies!

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 and a Day Care Centre for 30 disabled children from Roman region. We provided for them literacy lessons, 3 grannies on Baba program, paid by BAS, Irish Appeal and Maarten Luykx, very popular Bridge between generations project and summer camps with volunteers.

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Easter bread!  Coloring eggs is such a fun!   Eggs coloring completion!

ROMAN CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF HADICAPPED CHILDREN (30 children with physical and mental disabilities, aged 6- 19). Most of the children and young people are heavily handicapped, mostly with mental problems.

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We brought them eggs; bread, goodies and they had a nice Easter feast.

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, literacy, and psychological training through BAS (US) and two grannies, financed by Rotary Serdica Sofia and a group of foreign ladies who used to live in Bulgaria

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We brought them Easter bread and presents.     What a fun to make their own Easter Bread

STARA ZAGORA: 230 km east of Sofia  CNST–  5 CNST,  protected house under the management of Mr.Bahov. Every summer a group of Dutch volunteers visit Stara Zagora and try to help with renovations and play with the children

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STARA ZAGORA:   7 Centers for accommodation of a family type – 90 children and young adults,

aged 7-25, some with disabilities under the management of Mrs.Nellie Badjakova. Every summer a group of Dutch volunteers visit Stara Zagora and try to help with renovations and play with the children.

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Easter Bread, lamb meat, colors and goodies!

VRATZA Social homes,130 km NW off Sofia, (23 children, aged 7-18, few  with slight disabilities and a transitional home).  financed by Samen Delen Foundation – Bruchem.

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We brought eggs, colors and food for Easter!      The children colored the eggs.

 VRATSA –  Transitional house for young adults who are due to leave the institution in 3-4 years.,

We provide some lessons for them to be able to pass their final exams before leaving. We brought them Easter Bread and goodies and personal cosmetic presents.

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Wonderful holidays with tasty food and personal presents.

VRATSA – CENTER FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG    ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES (3 Centers for 42 people).

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Tabitha’s delivery.   Great joy to color and eat eggs for Easter.

VRATRA – Mother and Baby Unit – 5 moms and babies. Some of the moms and kids have suffered from domestic violence and are very traumatized. SEWA and members of the association fundraised money and we were able to provide food for the moms and kids not only for Easter but also for their daily needs. Their budget is really tiny and they cannot manage without the help of donors.

We are grateful to the many moms who sent clothes and diapers for the babies through a campaign.

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We provided eggs, Easter bread, meat, drinks, fruit and salads.

STAR of HOPE – Protected house in Sofia for 5 girls. Most of the young girls who were accommodated in the house 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 finished school and got profession.

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The girls are very happy !     Preparing for Easter        Beautiful eggs!

With gratitude from Tabitha Bulgaria Team!

CNST – Centre for accommodation of a family type (small group houses) – 12-14 children Transitional house – for teenagers, due to leave the institutions, 8-10 youngsters Complex for social services (include CNST, Day Care Centre, Transitional house. Some of them include children with disabilities)

Roman:  the Complexes for social services for children in ( 2 CNCT, Transitional house, Day care for disabled children), Day Care Centre MAX and Roman Complex for social services for disabled children (3CNST),

Vratsa: 2 CNSTs for children, 3 CNST for children with disabilities, 2 transitional homes and a protectded house.   the Complex for social services in Vratsa(three Centers  for accommodation of a family type and one transitional home);

Mezdra:Compelx for social services ( 5 CNST and a transitional house)

Pleven,a Home for babies and disbled children 0- 7,8 years,

Sofia  a Protected house for young people who have left the orphanages: Star of Hope ( for girls);

Botevgrad:  two Centers for accommodations in Botevgrad ;

Samokov CNST;

Dren: 2 CNSTs;

Dupnitsa:  2 CNST for children with and without disabilities and Protected house,

Stara Zagora 7 CNST and a transitional home, Club for retired people in Stara

WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR! MAY 2024 BE HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS!

Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation expresses its gratitude to all donors, volunteers and friends who made the Christmas holidays unforgettable for the underprivileged children included in Tabitha’s Christmas campaign! We greatly appreciate their efforts, kind understanding and commitment to the less fortunate in the Eve of Christmas. Regardless of the financial crises, soaring up inflation, political restlessness we still managed to organize and carry out a very good Christmas campaign. Thanks to our donors more than 600 children and young adults at over 35 Bulgarian social institutions were cheered up with presents and warm food for Christmas and the New Year’s Eve. We attended many parties to see 2023 off and prepare the way for 2024.

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Another 50 low-income senior people from the town of Roman and the region were supported with winter packages, Christmas party, presents and fire wood. Our generous donor Max foundation(Nl) has provided means to buy stable food for the elder people in Roman for 6 months in a row (November – April 2024) for a second year. Thanks to MAX support we organized a Christmas party with lunch and presents for about 30 elderly people in Roman too.

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Children prepare winter help for the senior people and wood!       Christmas party for Christmas

In the last 16 years Stitching Promoties has held the Bulgarian underprivileged children’s fate at heart by allocating money for Christmas and Easter.  Without their generous financial support, we would not have been able to launch Tabitha’s Christmas campaign.  As ever we acknowledge Maarten Koel personal involvement and kind heart in the Christmas campaign for the   social homes in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnitsa,  Mezdra, Pleven, Roman, Samokov, Stara Zagora,  Sofia, Vratsa  and village of Yagoda.

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PROMOTIE Foundation           Tabitha-Netherlands Board                   Tabitha’s Irish donors

 Some of the institutions got extra donations from Tabitha Bulgaria’s partners.    We would   like to acknowledge the 23-years of support from Tabitha Netherlands and especially from the Boitens and the Board for their steady moral guidance and financial assistance which has enabled Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation to do its work and come up to the expectations of the less fortunate.  Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation would like to acknowledge the great support which we have received from Bulgaria American Association (BAS) for a number of very productive projects like Baba program in Vratsa and Roman, Educational support (literacy lessons, psychological training and cooking lessons) in Samokov, the Bridge between generations in Roman and others. Special thanks to Jeff Ploetz for his personal involvement.  We would like to recognize the many-year dedication and ceaseless help of Bulgarian Orphan Fund (Ireland) at Christmas, especially of Catherine Barkley’s, her wonderful sister Miriam, relatives, friends and colleagues which made the children in Roman very happy.  Thanks to them 80 children and young adults from Roman social homes and Day Care Centre had a wonderful party in a nearby town of Mezdra with presents.

The regular support of Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg (NL) for the social institutions in Stara Zagora made the children very happy. For Christmas they gave a cooker and laundry machine to the social homes.

The help of our families and friends was greatly appreciated too. They gave us a hand in packing the presents for the social homes.    Native Connection OOD and Kelsa Smith- Moushkourova, and many others who helped us, make it through the Christmas campaign in December 2023.   The regular New Year’s initiative of Philip and Ivan Matov and their friends who fund-raised over 1000 BGN at their party at the Eve of 2024 was greatly appreciated! The money will go to the scholarship of Minka Nikolaeva from Stara Zagora, who studies computer engineering.

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Kelsa -Native Connection   Philip, Ivan and friends   Lina and girlfriends

Tabitha’s Christmas campaign was preceded by a lot of shopping,  making presents , logistic  and travelling by Tabitha’s team.

TABITHA FOUNDATION CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN provided presents, parties and food for  the following social institutions in Bulgaria:

TWO CENTRES AT THE VILLAGE OF BOROVAN  (NW Bulgaria – 140 km off Sofia) – 2 Centres of accommodation of a family type – 22 children and young adults’ aged 9-19 living in dire straits. We also provided some chocolate treatments for the Centre for community support and personal development “M.Belmustakova” for underprivilaged children 160 children.

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Food and presents for the institution.  Presents for the M.Belmostakova Center

 TWO BOTEVGRAD CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE – there are 24 children and young      adults, aged 6-25, some with serious mental and physical disabilities.  We brought them presents and food. Tabitha Bulgaria also supports two grannies on Baba projects by Berlin Rotary Club and Lisa Freij.

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We cheered up the Christmas season at the Centres with presents and food!

DREN – 2 Centres for accommodation of a family type “Joy” – 22 children, aged 8- 17 years.  We brought them food for Christmas and New Year’s Eve and presents.

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Food and presents for the children

DUPNITSA   SOCIAL HOMES – 32 children and adults 7- 19 years of age: two Centers for accommodation of a family type for children with disabilities, a Centre for healthy children, and Transitional House. We provided for them bags with chocolate treats and food for the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

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They were happy with the presents and food we gave them

 MEZDRA –  Complex for children with mental and physical disabilities (60 children and adults, age 4-25, accommodated in 4 Centres, a protected house for 6 young people and a transitional home for 10 adolescents.  We bought them food and bags with delicious treats. We also provided presents and booklets with colour pencils for the kids from low-income families at the local kindergarten (55 children).

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Food                                                                         Kids from a kindergarten for low-income families

PLEVEN – Home for medico-social cares (70 kids, 0 – 4, 5 years, more than 70% of them bed-ridden or with    serious mental and physical problems. The party was attended by St. Clause who distributed toys, sweets, and chocolates to the kids.

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Kids enjoying the presents and the beautiful Christmas tree.

ROMAN 1   –  Complex for social services for children and families: 55 children and young adults (2 Centres for accommodation of a family type and a Transitional apartment for young adults who are due to leave the institution, 30 persons) and 20 children from the Day Care Centre for disabled children from Roman and the region. Thanks to our friends from the Bulgaria Orphan Appeal we organized a big party for all the children from Roman 1 and Roman 2 in a smart restaurant in the nearby town of Mezdra with delicious lunch and presents.  We also bought them food not only for Christmas but also for the New Year’s diners.  We support 4 grannies on Baba Project, two by Maarten Luykx(Nl), one by Bulgarian Orphan Appeal(IE) and BAS(US).

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Party with presents and lunch  Giving presents    Providing food for the holidays

ROMAN 2 – Three Centres for accommodation of a family type for children and young adults with disabilities – 30 persons.  The children received Christmas bags with treats. We brought them a lot of food for the Christmas holidays from our Irish friends, from Bulgarian orphan appeal.

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Party at Mezdra with presents and lunch and food for Christmas and the New Year’s Eves.

SAMOKOV CENTRE FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE. – 14 children, aged 4-19 years. We brought them food and warm gloves. They had wonderful diners for the holidays, prepared with the active help of the children for whom Tabitha provides cooking lessons.

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We gave them warm gloves                          Preparing for Christmas’s Eve dinner

STARA ZAGORA – Small group houses – 38 children and young adults with Mr.Bahov. We provided presents for all the children and young adults.

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Lots of presents and happy children

STARA ZAGORA 7 Centres for accommodation of a family type – 90 children and adults with Nellie Badgakova, most of them with physical and mantal problems,aged 7-19. They all received presents and food for the Chrsitmas holidays.

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Lots of food for Christmas and the New Years Eves

VRATZA CENTRS FOR ACCONNODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE, Transitional Home, 23 children and young adults (aged 7-25).

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Many presents and food for the young adults at CNCT Vratsa!

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Food for both Christmas and the new Year’s Eves

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Moms and  Babies’ Unit in Vratsa – food and presents for the mothers and the kids

VRATZA SOCIAL COMPLEX, (54 children) consisting of 3 Centres for accommodation for disabled children   – 42 children and adults, aged 6 – to over 25 years and a transitional home for 8 young adults.

We provided food and presents for all of them. The children were happy and enjoyed the party for Christmas. Though some were in invalid chairs they were also included in the celebration. Thanks to their babas the children performed songs. We support 4 grannies on Baba project, financed by BAS, Corawill Inc , Samen Delen(Bruchem) and Borjana Hristova & Drago Ilievs.

Center for accommodation of family type for children andn young adults with disabilities

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Enjoying Christmas party, Santa Clause and presents

STAR OF HOPE – 5 girls in a protected home in Sofia: we bought food for them for the Christmas holidays. The Arabia Restaurant provided them with dishes for the Christmas Eve.

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The girls received food and Christmas dishes to enjoy the holidays.

SENIOR PEOPLE in Roman – Like every year in the last 10 years we received a generous lump sum from the Foundation MAX Maakt   Mogelijk (NL) for 50 old people with low income in the town of Roman and the region through “Tabitha Netherlands” and the personal commitment of Rients Boiten. They received 2 m³ fire-wood and winter packages, containing 2 kg of flour,2 l. cooking oil, rice, beans, lentils, sugar, instant soups, macaroni, biscuits, waffles and jam. In the period of 6 months they receive different products. For Christmas they got salami, yellow cheese, white cheese, coffee, sweets and other products that cheered their holidays.

Another 30 elderly had a wonderful Christmas Party with delicious food of their own choice. They received presents too.

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Wood from MAX           Winter help with staple products                     Christmas party for the senior people

HAPPY CHILDREN WITH MANY PRESENTS

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SMILING FACES, HAPPY CHILDREN                                                                                                     

                        TABITHA BULGARIA TEAM                                           

                        /ALBENA & GEORGE/                                           

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HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 2023 TO ALL OUR DONORS AND SUPPORTERS!

As ever, Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation is indebted to all donors, volunteers and friends for their efforts, kind understanding and commitment to the Bulgarian underprivileged children in the Eve of Christmas. Regardless of the financial crises, the soaring up inflation, the political restlessness we still managed to organize a great Christmas campaign. Thanks to our donors more than 600 children and young adults at over 30 Bulgarian social institutions were cheered up with presents and warm food for Christmas and the New Year’s Eve. Another 50 low-income senior people from Roman and the region were supported with winter packages, Christmas party, presents and fire wood. Our generous donor Max foundation(Nl) has provided means to buy stable food for the elder people in Roman every month, for a period of 6 months (November – April 2023).

In the last 13 years Stitching Promoties has held the Bulgarian underprivileged children’s fate at heart and allocated money for Christmas.  Without their generous financial support, we would not have been able to launch the Christmas campaign.  As ever we are especially grateful to Maarten Koel for his kind heart and personal involvement in the Christmas campaign for the   social homes in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnitsa,  Mezdra, Pleven, Roman, Samokov, Stara Zagora, Vratsa and Sofia.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] PROMOTIE Foundation    Tabitha-Netherlands Board           G.O.A.L. Inc

  Some of the institutions got extra donations from Tabitha Bulgaria’s partners.    We would   like to acknowledge the 22-years of support from Tabitha Netherlands and especially from the Boitens and the Board for their steady moral guidance and financial assistance which has enabled Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation to do its work and not fail the expectations of the less fortunate.  We also want to thank G.O.A.L. Inc (UK) for their Christmas donation which provided additional Christmas support for four homes (Pleven, Roman, Dren and Samokov) and to acknowledge the active role of Jody Kerr, Alice Danesh and Emma Daw for their charity initiative. We would like to recognize the many-year dedication and ceaseless help of Bulgarian Orphan Fund (Ireland) at Christmas, especially of Catherine Barkley’s, her wonderful sister Miriam, relatives, friends and colleagues which made the children in Roman very happy. Thanks to their Christmas donation we provided food for the children for Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinners and brand new warm winter jackets.

The help of our families and friends was greatly appreciated. They gave us a hand in packing the presents for the social homes.  We would like to recognize the help of our volunteers Eli, Yana Angelovas, the newlywed Philip and Krissi, Iliana Stoilova, Native Connection OOD and Kelsa Smith- Moushkourova, Capital Bars EOOD and Kalin Borisov and many others who helped us, make it through the Christmas campaign in December 2022. We are also thankful to Maria Soskova and her family for their financial support for Christmas. The regular New Year’s initiative of Ivan and Philip Matov and their friends who fund-raised 1404 BGN at their party at the Eve of 2023 was greatly appreciated!

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Volunteers       Rotary Club Sofia Serdika  Ivan& Philip+friends Newly wed Philip&Krissi  Yana Angelova’s family

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Maria&Joe +kids  Miller – Soskova      Capital Bars EOOD            Kelsa -Native Connection

Tabitha’s Christmas campaign was preceded by a lot of shopping,  making presents , logistic  and travelling by Tabitha’s team. Tabitha’s Christmas campaign was launched by our participation in SEWA Bazaar at the Ring Mall which was a warming up fundraising event.  SEWA (Sofia Expats Women Association) gave us the opportunity to fundraise some money for the campaign.

TABITHA FOUNDATION CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN provided presents, parties and food for  the following social institutions in Bulgaria:

BOROVAN  (NW Bulgaria – 140 km off Sofia) – 2 Centre for accommodation of a family type – 22 children and young adults’ aged 9-19 living in dire straits. We also provided for the Centre for community support and personal development “M.Belmustakova” for underprivilaged children 15 children.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Food and presents for the instintution.  Presents for the M.Belmostakoa Center

TWO BOTEVGRAD CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE – there are 24 children and young      adults, aged 6-25, some with serious mental and physical disabilities.  We brought them presents and food. Tabitha Bulgaria also supports two grannies on Baba projects and a psychiatrist financed by Berlin Rotary Club and Lisa Freij.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] We cheered up the Christmas season at the Centres with presents and food!

DREN – 2 Centres for accommodation of a family type “Joy” – 22 children, aged 8- 17 years.  We brought them food for Christmas and New Year’s Eve and presents.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] They have prepared their own Christmas and New Year’s dinners with the food we provided

DUPNITSA   SOCIAL HOMES – 30 children and adults 7- 19 years of age: two Centres for accommodation of a family type for children with disabilities and a Centre for healthy children, Transitional House. We provided for them slippers and bags with chocolate treats.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] They were happy with the presents and chocolates we gave them

MEZDRA –  Complex for children with mental and physical disabilities (60 children and adults, age 4-25, accommodated in 4 Centres, a protected house for 6 young people and a transitional home for 10 adolescents.  We bought them food and bags with delicious treats. We also provided presents and booklets with colour pencils for the kids from low-income families at the local kindergarten (55 children).

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Food               St. Clause with presents      Kids from a kindergarten for low-income families

PLEVEN – Home for medico-social cares 60-70 kids, 0 – 4, 5 years, more than 70% of them bed-ridden or with    serious mental and physical problems. The party was attended by St. Clause who distributed toys, sweets, and chocolates to the kids.  G.O.A.L. Inc provided also money for expensive medicines because the Social home cannot afford to buy them. We support 6 grandmothers there and some urgently needed specialists through the generous financial support of Broken Wall (US) charity.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Kids enjoying the presents and the beautiful Christmas tree.  

ROMAN 1   –  Complex for social services for children and families: 55 children and young adults (2 Centres for accommodation of a family type and a Transitional apartment for young adults who are due to leave the institution, 30 persons) and 20 children from the Day Care Centre for disabled children from Roman and the region. Thanks to our friends from the Bulgaria Orphan Appeal and G.O.A.L. Inc we bought them food not only for Christmas and New Year’s diners but also meat, salami, sausages, sweets and fruit to last a month. Brand new warm jackets were bought for the kids.  We support 4 grannies on Baba Project, three by Maarten Luykx (Nl) and one by BAS(US).

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Happy kids         Toy kitchen for the kids                Christmas diner                 New jackets

ROMAN 2 – Three Centres for accommodation of a family type for children and young adults with disabilities – 30 persons.  The children received Christmas bags with treats. We brought them a lot of food for the Christmas holidays from our Irish friends, from Bulgarian orphan appeal

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Much food for the Christmas and New Year’s Eves diners, parties and presents

SAMOKOV CENTRE FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE. – 14 children, aged 4-18 years. We brought them food and presents. Our friends from Rotary Serdika brought them their dream presents.  The kids  not only performed for us but had also cooked lunch and Christmas cookies to treat us. We maintain 2 babas there(one by G.O.A.L. Inc. and one by 5 former IWC ladies syndicate.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] The children enjoyed delicious food, many presents and special dream presents from Rotary Sofia Serdika.

STARA ZAGORA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS – 38 people altogether, accommodated in 4 social institutions, transitional and protected houses

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Presents an dfood for the children and young people.

STARA ZAGORA 7 Centres for accommodation of a family type – 90 children and adults, most of them with physical and mantal problems,aged 7-19. They all received presents and food for the Chrsitmas holidays. Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg sent some money to buy food and cosmetics for he children.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Home-made ritual bread                              Enjoying the presents!

VRATZA CENTRS FOR ACCONNODATION O|F A FAMILY TYPE, Transitional Home, 23 children and young adults (aged 7-25).

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Many presents and food for the children from CNST   and Transitional home in Vratsa

 VRATZA SOCIAL COMPLEX, (54 children) consisting of 3 Centres for accommodation for disabled children   – 42 children and adults, aged 6 – to over 25 years and a transitional home for 8 young adults and Unit for mothers and babies – 4 children and moms.  We provided food and presents for all of them. The children were happy and enjoyed the party for Christmas. Though some were in invalid chairs they were also included in the celebration. Thanks to their babas the children performed songs. We support 3 grannies on Baba project, financed by BAS, Corawill Inc and the support of Tabitha’s donors.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Enjoying the party and the presents!

STAR OF HOPE Shelter house in Sofia. The house is accommodated by young girls from Roman, Lom and Vratsa social institutions which Tabitha has supported. Most of the girls we have known from small kids.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] The girls receivied food and presents and enjoyed both Christmas and New Year’s diners.

SENIOR PEOPLE in Roman and the region – 50 elder people with low income received 2 m³ fire-wood and 50 people got winter packages, containing 2 kg of flour,2 lcooking oil, rice, beans, lentils, sugar, instant soups, macaroni, biscuits, waffles, meat and fish cans, tomato paste and jam.

Like every year in the last 10 years we received a generous lump sum from the Foundation MAX Maakt   Mogelijk (NL) for the old people with low income in the town of Roman and the region through “Tabitha Netherlands” and the personal commitment of Rients Boiten.

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] Regular food supply,for 6 months distributed to 50 underprivilaged people

[See image gallery at tabitha.bg] MAX   wood support for winter.                                               Party and presents for 25 senior people

HAPPY CHILDREN WITH MANY PRESENTS

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                        TABITHA BULGARIA TEAM                                                   /ALBENA & GEORGE/                                           

HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 2022 TO ALL OUR DONORS AND SUPPORTERS!

Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation is indebted to all our donors, volunteers and friends for their efforts, kind understanding and commitment to the underprivileged children in the Eve of Christmas .Thanks to their help and in the midst of COVID 19 challenges, once again Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation was able to organize a Christmas campaign. More than 600 children and young adults at 30 Bulgarian social institutions were cheered up with presents and warm food for Christmas and the New Year’s Eve. Another 120 low-income senior people from Roman and the region were supported with winter packages, presents and wood.

In the last 10 years Stitching Promoties has held the Bulgarian underprivileged children’s fate at heart and allocated money for Christmas.  Without their generous financial support we would not have been able to launch the Christmas campaign.  As ever we are especially grateful to Maarten Koel for his kind heart and personal involvement in the Christmas campaign for the   social homes in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnitsa, Gorski Senovets, Mezdra, Pleven, Roman, Samokov, Stara Zagora, Vratsa.

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PROMOTIE Foundation      Tabitha-Netherlands Board      G.O.A.L. Inc

 Some of the institutions got extra donations from Tabitha Bulgaria’s partners.    We would   like to acknowledge the 22-years of support from Tabitha Netherlands and especially from the Boitens for their steady moral guidance and financial assistance which has enabled Tabitha Bulgaria Foundation to do its work and not fail the expectations of the less fortunate.  We also want to thank G.O.A.L. Inc (UK) for their Christmas donation which provided additional Christmas support for four homes (, Pleven, Roman, Dren and Samokov) and to acknowledge the active role of  Jody Kerr, Alice Danesh and  Emma Daw for their charity initiative. We would like to recognize the many-year dedication and ceaseless help of Bulgarian Orphan Fund (Ireland) at Christmas, especially of Catherine Barkley’s, her wonderful sister Miriam, relatives, friends and colleagues, which made the children in Roman very happy.

Special thanks for the support of SEWA (Sofia Expats Women Association) who provided winter packages for 50 low-income senior people in Roman to help them make it through the winter. They also provided presents for the children to some of the institutions we support: Mezdra, Vratsa, Roman.

The regular support of Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg (NL) for the social institutions in Stara Zagora made the children very happy. In addition to food , the new social houses bought wardrobes and sofas.

The help of  KVS Agro Bulgaria, Ltd for the senior people in Roman  and the children from Roman was greatly welcomed. They distributed food and presents to 20 elderly for Christmas.

Three Rotaracts from Sofia (Serdica, Vitosha and Tangra) launched an active campaign “Buy and Donate” (Купи и Дари) at Metro Cash and Carry and a part of the collected products were distributed by Tabitha Bulgaria to the social homes in Borovan, Botevgrad, Vratsa, Roman, Dupnitsa, Dren, Samokov and other places.

The help of our families and friends was greatly appreciated. They gave us a hand in packing the presents for the social homes.  We would like to recognize the help of our volunteers Eli, Yana Angelova, and Philip and Adi, the smallest volunteers, Iliana Stoilova, Ivan and Petja, Lina Valcheva, Angela Makarieva, Svetla Jankieva, Kelsa Smith- Moushkourova, Lisa Freij and many others who helped us, make it through the Christmas campaign in December 2021. We are thankful to Maria Soskova and family for their financial support for Christmas. We are grateful and moved by the regular New Year’s initiative of Ivan and Philip Matovs and their friends who fund-raised 1230 BGN at their party at the Eve of 2022!

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Volunteers                                                                   KVS Agro               Rotaract at Metro      Ivan& Philip            Maria&Joe

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Shopping

Tabitha’s Christmas campaign was preceded by a lot of shopping,  making presents , logistic  and travelling by Tabitha’s team.

TABITHA FOUNDATION CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN provided presents, parties and food for  the following social institutions in Bulgaria:

BOROVAN  (NW Bulgaria – 140 km off Sofia) – 2 Centre of accommodation of a family type – 19 children and young adults’ aged 9-19 living in dire straits. We also provided for the Centre for community support and personal development “M.Belmustakova” for underprivilaged children.

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Food and presents for the instintution.  Presents for the M.Belmostakoa Center     Dancing and fun

     TWO BOTEVGRAD CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE – there are 24 children and young      adults, aged 6-25, some with serious mental and physical disabilities.  We brought them presents and food. Tabitha Bulgaria also supports two grannies on Baba projects and a psychiatrist financed by Berlin Rotary Club and Lisa Freij.

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We cheered up the Christmas season at the Centre with presents and food!

DREN – Home for children deprived of parental cares “Joy” – 22 children, aged 8- 17 years.  We provided warm blankets and food so the kids were really excited.  We supported two grannies on the Baba project by G.O.A.L. Inc. and a group of expats ladies (Cathy, Carole, Eileen, Fiona, Lyndsay) who used to live in Bulgaria

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The children received warm blankets  and food.

DUPNITSA SOCIAL HOMES – 30 children and adults 7- 19 years of age: two Centres for accommodation of a family type for children with disabilities and a Centre for healthy children, Transitional House. We provided for them crocks, bags with chocolate treats and food for the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

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They were happy with the presents and food  we gave them

GORSKI SENOVETS –Day care centre for 25 handicapped young adults “Small Sun” –, aged 15-35, with serious disabilities. All participants  were very excited to participate in the Christmas party and welcomed St. Clause who brought them presents. We   provided them with Christmas treats, chocolates and food.

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St.Clause brought presents and gave them to all participants.

 MEZDRA  –  Complex for children with mental and physical disabilities (60 children and adults, age 4-25,  accommodated in 4 Centres, a protected house for 6 young people  and a transitional home for 10 adolescents.  We bought them food and bags with delicious treats. We also provided presents and booklets with colour pencils for the kids from low-income families  at the kindergarten (55 children).

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Food                   St. Clause with presents      Kids from a kindergarten for low-income families

PLEVEN – Home for medico-social cares (70 kids, 0 – 4, 5 years, more than 70% of them bed-ridden or with    serious mental and physical problems. The party was attended by St. Clause who distributed toys, sweets, and chocolates to the kids.  G.O.A.L. Inc provided also money for expensive medicines because the Social home cannot afford to buy them.

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Kids enjoying the presents and the beautiful Christmas tree.  

ROMAN 1   –  Complex  for social services for children and families: 55 children and young adults   (2 Centres for accommodation of a family type and a Transitional apartment for young adults who are due to leave the institution, 30 persons) and 25 children from the Day Care Centre for disabled children from Roman and the region. Thanks to our friends from the Bulgaria Orphan Appeal and G.O.A.L. Inc we bought them food not only for Christmas and New Year’s diners but also meat, salami, sausages, sweets and fruit to last a month.  We support 4 grannies on Baba Project, two by Maarten Luykx(Nl), one by Bulgarian Orphan Appeal(IE) and BAS(US).

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Happy girls           Food           Kids singing          Kids with presents

ROMAN 2 – Three Centres for accommodation of a family type for children and young adults with disabilities – 30 persons.  The children received warm pyjamas and Christmas bags with treats. We brought them a lot of food for the Christmas holidays from our Irish friends, from Bulgarian orphan appeal.

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Much food for the Christmas and New Year’s Eves diners and pijamas.

SAMOKOV CENTRE FOR ACCOMMODATION OF A FAMILY TYPE. – 12 children, aged 5-18 years. We brought them food and crocs. Our friends from Rotary Serdika brought them their dream presents.  They not only performed for us but had also cooked lunch and Christmas cookies to treat us.

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Happy with a present!   The kids had cooked dinner for us! Rotary and Rotaract Sofia Serdica visit .

       STARA ZAGORA – Small group houses – 38 children and young adults. We provided presents for all the children and young adults.

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Home-made ritual bread                              Enjoying the presents!

     STARA ZAGORA 7 Centres for accommodation of a family type – 90 children and adults, most of them with physical and mantal problems,aged 7-19. They all received presents and food for the Chrsitmas holidays.

In the last couple of months Stara Zagora’s homes have rceived some financial support from Werkgroep Bulgarije in Wijk & Aalburg to buy food and some urgent goods.

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Good food and cheerful New Year’s diner                                      New wardrobes

VRATZA CENTRS FOR ACCONNODATION O|F A FAMILY TYPE, Transitional Home, 23 children and young adults(aged 7-25).

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Many presents and food for the children!

 VRATZA SOCIAL COMPLEX,  (54 children) consisting of 3 Centres for accommodation for  disabled children   – 42 children and adults, aged 6 – to over 25 years and a transitional home for 8 young adults and and Unit for mothers and babies – 4 children and moms.  We provided food and presents for all of them. The children were happy and enjoyed the party for Christmas. Though some were in invalid chairs they were also included in the celebration. Thanks to their babas the children performed songs. We support 3 grannies on Baba project, financed by BAS, Corawill Inc and  the support of Tabitha’s donors.

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Enjoying the party and the presents!                          Food for all!

SENIOR PEOPLE in Roman and the region – 50 elder people with low income received  2 m³ fire-wood and 120 People got winter packages, containing 2 kg of flour,2 lcooking oil, rice, beans, lentils, sugar, instant soups, macaroni, biscuits, waffles and jam.

Like every year in the last 9 years we received a generous lump sum from the Foundation MAX Maakt   Mogelijk (NL) for the old people with low income in the town of Roman and the region through “Tabitha Netherlands” and the personal commitment of Rients Boiten. We also got food supply from SEWA for another 50 elder people. KVS Agro Bulgaria donated food packages for 20 more retired people.

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Wood from MAX                                    SEWA food packets                                            KVS Agro Bylgaria Ltd and Valentin

HAPPY CHILDREN WITH MANY PRESENTS

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SMILING FACES, HAPPY CHILDREN!

1. We also supplied food and treats to 7 orphaned children from a poor family from the village of Rebarkovo whose father passed away and the mother is mentally ill. Their grandmother takes care of them.

TABITHA BULGARIA TEAM                                                   /ALBENA & GEORGE/                                           

HUGE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS!

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The corona virus challenged Tabitha’s campaign for Easter this year . However, 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.
As ever we are indebted to Stichting Promotie (NL) for its understanding and contribution for the Easter holiday. It has been more than 10 years that they have supported social institutions for Christmas and Easter. We would like to express our personal gratitude to Mr. Maarten Koel, who never forgets the needs of the less fortunate children in Bulgaria at such holy days. We would like to acknowledge the active help of Tabitha Netherlands Foundation and the personal involvement of its Board and the Boitens.
We greatly appreciated the financial aid rendered by Tabitha’s volunteers from Werkvakantie Bulgarije – Samen Delen – Bruchen (Nl) and Corawill Inc, USA. For years before the pandemic they used to visit Vratsa social homes to work there and play with the children who loved them.
Our thanks go to the “Secret Angels”, a bunch of enthusiastic ladies from the international and local communities who did a great job for Easter for some of the institutions we work with.
We’d also like to acknowledge the timely donation of Raikovski family . Their son Sami (9 years old) shared his savings with the destitute children in Bulgarian orphanages. His contribution helped buying books, puzzles and toys for the children in Dupnitsa, Borovan and Mezdra social intuitions.
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.

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A lot of shopping                                                         

Nearly 700 underprivileged children and young adults from more than 20 social institutions benefited by Tabitha’s Easter campaign 2021.  We provided Easter goods to social homes, social complexes, Day Care-centers for disable children and CNSTs in Botevgrad, Borovan, Dren, Dupnista, Gorski Senovets, 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. We also used the opportunity to distribute medical masks to all homes, donated by Maarten Luykx.

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Happy kids with colored eggs!

Tabitha’s campaign also included some elder people participating in the project Bridge between generations from Roman   and a Pensioners ‘Club in Stara Zagora

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The elder people from Roman and Stara Zagora got presents and food for the holidays.

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 have been supporting at the two Centers two grannies on our Baba program, financed by London Rotary and Lisa Freij’s family.  We brought them Easter bread, eggs, colors and lamb.                           

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Food for the Easter diner .          Fun coloring eggs!                        Beautifully decorated eggs!

BOROVAN:  NW 150 km off Sofia – Two Centres for accommodation of a family type – 22 children and young adults, aged 10 – 18.

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Easter bread, eggs, meat and goodies for all the children! Beautifully colored eggs!

BOROVAN – Center for support of personal development (Day Care Center for socially neglected children)   – 42 children, aged 8-15.

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Easter Celebration!                                   Books and puzzles from Sami      Masks

DREN HOME- “JOY”, 22 children, aged 4 – 18, some with disabilities. The institution is 60 km SW off Sofia.

We support 2 grannies on the Baba projects there paid by G.O.A.L. Inc. and IWC former members.

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Beautifully colored eggs                   A lot of food and Easter Bread for the holidays

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 have 3 grannies on the Baba project, one financed by the London Rotary Club, and the other two are supported by Mr. Marteen Luykx.

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          Coloring eggs is a great fun                                        Proud with their colored eggs

GORSKI SENOVETS DAY CARE Centre for young adults with heavy disabilities “LITTLE SUN” – 25 young adults and children, aged 10- 25. It is located 45 km off Veliko Tarnovo, NE Bulgaria. (300 km off Sofia)

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The children and young people received eggs and   Easter packages.

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.

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The children are happy with cheese, salami, Easter Bread!                Wonderful Easter dinner!

MEZDRA KINDERGARTEN “MIR”:  68 children, aged 3-7 with many children from destitute families –from

poor local villages.

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                              Clothes and food were given to poor families and kids.

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 chocolate, eggs, Easter bread, baby boosters and medicines.

Tabitha Foundation provides for the home 3 physiotherapists, a neurologist, a speech therapist, financed by GOAL Inc(UK) and BAS.

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What a fun is to have a lot of eggs and tasty Easter bread!

CENTRE FOR ACCOMMODATION OF a FAMILY TYPE – in Samokov, 60 km south off Sofia, 12 children, aged 8-18.

We brought them eggs, colors, and Easter bread, meat, chocolates, salami and goodies.. Our foundation supports cooking lessons, literacy, and psychological training through BAS (US) and a granny, paid by the London Rotary Club.

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Coloring eggs                    Easter diner!         A homemade Easter Bread   A surprise for Tabitha

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 literacy lessons, 4 grannies on Baba program,  paid by GOAL Inc, BAS, Irish Appeal and Maarten Luykx , Bridge between generations project and summer camps with volunteers.

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Easter bread!          Coloring eggs is such a fun!    Presents for the kids and for the elder women!

ROMAN CENTRES FOR ACCOMMODATION OF HADICAPPED CHILDREN (30 children with physical and mental disabilities, aged 6- 19). Most of the children and young people are heavily handicapped, mostly with mental problems.

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We brought them eggs; bread, goodies and they had a nice Easter feast.

STARA ZAGORA: 230 km east of Sofia – CNST–new where most of the children from T,Popova orphanage were transferred when it was closed down – 14 children, aged 10-18.

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STARA ZAGORA:   7 Centers for accommodation of a family type – 70 children and young adults,

aged 7-19, some with disabilities.

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Easter Bread, lamb meat, colors and goodies!

VRATZA Social homes,130 km NW off Sofia,(23 children, aged 7-18, few  with slight disabilities and a transitional home).  These homes have accommodated the children from Assen Zlatarov orphanage when it was closed down in December 2020. We provide English lessons and psychological training to some children , financed by  Samen Delen Foundation – Bruchem.

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We brought eggs, colors and food for Easter!                The children colored the eggs.

VRATSA – CNST for children and young adults with disabilities – 45 people, accommodated in 4 small group houses. We have provided for them 3 baba, and a physiotherapist, supported by BAS (US) and London Rotary Club. Every summer Dutch and American volunteers work with the children.

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Tabitha’s delivery.                                             Great joy to color and eat eggs for Easter.

VRATSA – Transitional home – 8 children and young adults, aged 15-18, 

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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 through a campaign, organized by Anni Raykovska .

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           We provided eggs, Easter bread, meat, drinks, fruit and salads.

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.

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All the food we bought.                        Preparing for Easter                           Beautiful eggs!

With gratitude from Tabitha Bulgaria Team!

NB.CNST – Centre for accommodation of a family type (small group houses) – 12-14 children                           Transitional house – for teenagers, due to leave the institutions, 8-10 youngsters

Complex for social services (include CNST, Day Care Centre, Transitional house. Some of them include children with disabilities)

Roman:  the Complexes for social services for children in ( 2 CNCT, Transitional house, Day care for disabled children), Day Care Centre MAX and Roman Complex for social services for disabled children (3CNST),

Vratsa: 2 CNSTs for children, 3 CNST for children with disabilities, 2 transitional homes and a protectded house. the Complex for social services in Vratsa(three Centers  for accommodation of a family type and one transitional home);

Mezdra:Compelx for social services ( 5 CNST and a transitional house)

Pleven,a Home for babies and disbled children 0- 7,8 years,

Sofia  a Protected house for young people who have left the orphanages: Star of Hope ( for girls);

Botevgrad: two Centers for accommodations in Botevgrad ;

Samokov CNST;

Dren: 2 CNSTs;

Dupnitsa: 2 CNST for children with and without disabilities and Protected house,

Gorski Senovets: a Day care Center for young adults with ental and physical disabilities/

Stara Zagora 7 CNST and a transitional home, Club for retired people in Stara