Civil Society Network EUSDR Analogous 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 Center ChisinauDuring the day, our center looks after small children between the ages of 0 and 3 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 miserable condition and must first be nursed back to health. While the children slowly get used to our loving team of staff during the day, they...
National adoption and foster family programTogether with the national child protection commission in Chisinau, we set up a foster family program 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 services. 13 outreach nurses and 3 project coordinators from 13 remote villages in the Republic of Moldova have been trained to care for the elderly, 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...
Student programYoung people from the Agapedia Children's Center 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 Center in Sofia from the state orphanage and graduating from high school with the support of our social workers. Through...
Foster family programThrough our foster family program, 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...
Plovdiv Children's CenterIn 2008, the Agapedia Children's Center 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 cooking classes, 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...
Children's center in Sofia In our children's center 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 facility and are lovingly cared for by our team of staff. The biggest challenge is to rebuild the children's broken trust in adults.
About Agapedia Bulgaria A Bulgarian doctor who had heard about our work in Romania told us about the terrible conditions in the state-run Bulgarian orphanages, where the children were more vegetating than living. We traveled 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 corrupt...