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 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 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.