Civil Society Network EUSDR Analogue to its 23 years of work in the field, Agapedia is actively involved in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). This strategy of the European Commission aims to bring together the socio-economically strongest and weakest countries in Europe - from Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Austria in the west to Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova and the...
Mother and Child Centre ChisinauDuring the day, our centre looks after infants aged between 0 and 3 whose mothers would otherwise have abandoned them as they have neither a job nor a place to stay. Many of the infants arrive at our centre in a pitiful state and need to be nursed back to health. During the day, the children slowly settle in with our loving team of staff.
National adoption and foster family programmeTogether with the national child protection commission in Chisinau, we set up a foster family programme until 2015 to train and support Moldovan foster families so that they could take in abandoned children from state homes. As there were virtually no foster families in Moldova at that time, it was a major task for us to provide this service...
Community care in the villagesTogether with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, we launched this pilot project in Moldova in 2010 and are currently working on its sustainable implementation in the Moldovan health and social care system. 13 outreach carers and 3 project coordinators from 13 remote villages in the Republic of Moldova have been trained to look after old, sick and often completely...
About Agapedia Moldova On the Human Development Index 2018 (index of human development in the areas of health, education and income), the Republic of Moldova ranks 112th and is still the poorest country in Europe. Since people in Moldova also speak Romanian and we had gained a lot of experience with post-communist structures in Romania, we decided to...
Student programmeYoung people from the Agapedia Children's Centre who graduate from 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 the support of our social workers. Through...
Foster family programmeThrough 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 and their children were invited to a training camp with a programme...
Plovdiv Children's CentreIn 2008, the Agapedia Children's Centre was established in Plovdiv and has since been regularly visited by social orphans from a state children's home in the immediate vicinity. Here they receive special afternoon activities such as cookery courses, computer courses, homework supervision, creative workshops and learn general life skills. Above all, the intensive relationship work with our dedicated team of employees motivates and supports the children to learn...
Children's centre in Sofia In our children's centre in Sofia, we take in children from state children's homes or problematic families who have been physically and mentally abused. Children between the ages of 6 and 18 live in this family-like centre, where they are lovingly cared for by our team of staff. The biggest challenge is to rebuild the children's broken trust in adults - the...
About Agapedia Bulgaria A Bulgarian doctor who had heard about our work in Romania told us about the terrible conditions in the Bulgarian state orphanages, where the children were more vegetating than living. We travelled to Sofia for the first time in 1999. After the first meetings with the responsible authorities, it quickly became clear that the work here was not possible due to...
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