Agapedia Bulgaria

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 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 would be much more difficult due to corrupt structures. Nevertheless, we succeeded in establishing the Bulgarian Agapedia Foundation in 2001. Our work then began in a state children's home in Gorna Bania near Sofia. Over the past 17 years, three projects have been set up in Sofia and another in the city of Plovdiv in 2008.

A film by Till Beckert & Martin Herrmann

„AGAPEDIA - An adventure in Bulgaria“

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a central state, 111,002 square kilometres in size, between Romania, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and has 7.3 million inhabitants.

Net average salary € 435

1 litre of petrol costs €1.23
1 kilo of meat costs €5
1 kilo of tomatoes costs €2

Facts

Bulgaria has not only had to come to terms with socialism but has also been shaped by almost 500 years of Ottoman rule. There is still a strong centralised state mindset and the large state children's homes still exist, as they did in socialist times.