About Agapedia Bulgaria Upon hearing about our work in Romania, a Bulgarian physician told us about the dire situation in public orphanages in Bulgaria, where children no longer live but rather eke out a pitiful existence. So we traveled to Sofia for the first time in 1999. After meeting with the responsible authorities, we realized…
Children’s Center Sofia The Children’s Center Sofia takes in and cares for children from public children’s homes or difficult family situations who have been abused mentally or physically. It is a family-like institution. Children and teenagers aged six through 18 live together and are cared for by our loving staff. Our staff’s greatest challenge is…
Children’s Center PlovdivIn 2008, we inaugurated the Agapedia Children’s Center Plovdiv, which is now a second home to abandoned children who live in nearby public children’s homes. At the Children’s Center, we offer these children cooking classes, computer courses, homework assistance, creative workshops and help them acquire the skills they need. The intensive relationship work…
Foster Family ProgramThrough our foster family programme, we trained Bulgarian foster families and the foster parents were prepared to take in a child in a three-month course. This enabled abandoned children to grow up in a family of their own and actively helped to close the large, inhumane state orphanages.Twice a year, the foster parents…
Student ProgramYoung people from the Agapedia Children’s Centre who complete school with particularly good grades and are admitted to university receive financial support from Agapedia. Jana, for example, was able to successfully complete a degree in pharmacy after coming to the Agapedia Children’s Centre in Sofia from the state orphanage and completing her A-levels with…
About Agapedia Moldova Moldova ranks 112 in the Human Development Index 2018 (an index of human development in health, education and income). It thus remains Europe’s poorest country. Since Romanian is Moldova’s official language and we have had experience with post-communist structures in Romania, we decided to use synergies and establish aid projects here as…
Health and social care in villagesWe made this pilot project come to life in Moldova in cooperation with Robert Bosch Foundation in 2010 and are currently working towards its permanent integration into the Moldovan health and social sectors. We have trained 13 care workers and 3 project coordinators from 13 remote villages in Moldova to…
National adoptive and foster family programWe worked with the national Child Protection Commission in Chisinau to establish a foster family program in 2015 that trains and assists Moldovan families so they can take in children from public orphanages and children’s homes. Building up these services in cooperation with the local authorities was an immense task…
House for children and mothers ChisinauIn our center, infants between 0 and 3 years of age are cared for during the day, whose mothers would otherwise have abandoned them because they have neither a job nor a place to stay. Many of the infants arrive at our center in a pitiful condition and need to…
Civil Society Network EUSDR In addition to our work in the communities over the last 23 years, Agapedia has been actively involved in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). This strategy of the European Union is tasked with boosting the strongest and weakest European countries in terms of socio-economics and harmonize their development…
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