How to Help Disabled Children in Bulgaria
This list provides information which could be useful to anyone interested in finding out more about the plight of disabled children in Bulgaria and in helping to improve their lives. If you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will do our best to assist you.
1. Adoption
2. Donations
3. Bulgarian legislation and current policies on the issue
4. What the media say - Bulgarian / International
5. Human rights monitoring organizations reports
6. Support the independent advocacy for disabled children and the observation of human rights
7. Sign the petitions to the Bulgarian President or to the British Prime Minister
1. Adoption
The best one could possibly do to help is to adopt a child.
To find out how to do this if you are a foreigner, please contact the adoption agency AMOR :
http://amor-bg.com/index.html
Bulgarian and foreign citizens can also find adoption information in English and Bulgarian on:
http://www.mjeli.government.bg/structure.aspx?cc=en&page=17
2. Making a donation
To help the deinstitutionalisation of disabled children from Mogilino and from other social care homes and to help improve conditions in those homes, you could make donations to Friends of Bulgaria (click HERE) or to some of these charitable organizations:
The trust set up by Kate Blewett (the director of the film about Mogilino), UK-based
www.abandonedchildren.org.uk
“For Our Children”, the organization which is in Mogilino at the moment, Bulgarian
http://forourchildren-bg.org/
UNICEF Bulgaria
http://www.unicef.bg/page.php?key=help
3. Bulgarian Legislation and Current Policies
Bulgarian Agency for Child Protection
http://www.sacp.government.bg/index_en.htm
Bulgarian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
http://www.mlsp.government.bg/bg/news/news.asp?newsid=9858&catid=1
http://www.mlsp.government.bg/bg/news/news.asp?newsid=9802&catid=1
http://www.mlsp.government.bg/bg/news/news.asp?newsid=9805&catid=1
http://www.mlsp.government.bg/bg/news/news.asp?newsid=9821&catid=1
http://www.mlsp.government.bg/bg/news/news.asp?newsid=9768&catid=1
Bulgarian EU Affairs Minister, personal blog in Bulgarian
http://www.gerganagrancharova.eu/Comments.aspx?ArticleId=14&comment=
4. What the media say
In Bulgaria
http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=132520&srcpos=2
Daniela Gorcheva, 4 Oct. 2007
http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=132608&srcpos=1
Daniela Gorcheva, 8 Oct. 2007
http://opinions.bpost.bg/story-read-14692.php
Iana Domuschieva, Bulgarian Post, 9 Oct. 2007
http://mogilino.wordpress.com/
Bulgarian mothers, 9 Oct. 2007
http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=132673
Bulgarian mothers, 9 Oct. 2007
http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=133774&srcpos=6
Julian Popov, 15 Nov. 2007
http://www.capital.bg/show.php?storyid=391172
First British helpers in Bulgaria, 26 Oct. 2007
www.capital.bg/show.php?storyid=388944
Interview with Kate Blewett
http://www.capital.bg/show.php?storyid=391487&show=1
Cooperation of NGOs and Government, 26 Oct. 2007
http://www.capital.bg/show.php?storyid=391462
Government reaction to British offer of help, 26 Oct. 2007
http://capital.bg/show.php?storyid=398481
EU institutions and Mogilino – Analysis, 17 Nov 2007
http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=133853&srcpos=2#msgs
Interview with a German doctor about children's condition, 19 Nov 2007
International
http://www.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-kids_p11850,00.html
Pictures from social care homes shown on Sky news, Apr. 2006
http://www.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-bulgaria_p11148,00.html
Pictures from Mogilino shown on Sky news, Apr. 2006
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/dominic_lawson/article3166395.ece
Mogilino in Independent UK, 14 Nov 2007
5. Human rights monitoring agencies reports
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGEUR150052002
Report – Amnesty International, Oct 2002
http://www.bghelsinki.org/
Report – Amnesty International, 2000, 2001 and 2002 (Bulgarian)
http://www.bghelsinki.org/index.php?module=resources&lg=en&id=0&cat_id=18
Assessment Report On the Conditions and Perspectives of the Institutions for Children in Bulgaria and of the progress made in implementing the government obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nov. 2006
http://www.bghelsinki.org/index.php?module=resources&lg=bg&id=18
Report about all homes and children with special needs, 2002 (Bulgarian)
http://www.bghelsinki.org/index.php?module=resources&lg=en&id=0&cat_id=18#2002
The Institutions for Children with Special Needs in Bulgaria August 2002
6. Support the independent advocacy for disabled children and the observation of human rights
Donate to:
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (donation for Mogilino children)
BG35 UNCR 7630 1405 0868 05,
UniCredit Bulbank,
Sofia 1000,
7 Sveta Nedelya Sq.
BIC: UNCRBGSF
7. Sign the petition to the Bulgarian President
http://www.bgpetition.com/izostaveni_deca/index.html
8. Sign the petition to the British Prime Minister
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Children-Dying/
