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Since our establishment in 2007 we have been actively working with Erasmus+ Programme with over200 partnership projects by 2024. Under the programme we have hosted international youth exchanges, seminars and training courses giving a chance to more than 1000 young people to take part in projects for educational exchange on different topics. We have also implemented EVS projects sending and hosting youth volunteers who have been helping local and European institutions gaining useful skills and competences at the same time.We have partnered in several KA2 Strategic Partnership projects fostering the development of non-formal education, youth online learning opportunities for young people, youth workers and teachers. Since 2021 we have been implementing also small-scale sport partnership projects on topics such as women in sport, fostering sport among rural youth and green practices in sport via raising environmental awareness of sport clubs, their members and fans.
Since 2009 we have been implementing projects with the support of teh European Youth Foundation at the Council of Europe on topics such as human rights, interreligious dialogue, fostering tolerance and social inclusion for all, fighting stereotypes and gender-based violence. We have been implementing the projects in partbnership with the local high schools and the village mayoralties in our Municipality. The projects we have implemented so far are:2009-“Fostering human rights and gender equality in youth work” 2017-“SWITCH OFF Aggression, SWITCH ON Tolerance and Mutual understanding” 2018-“HUG ME-Human rights education for better Understanding Gender and gender-based violence” 2019-“IDEAL Tolerant Youth” -fostering interreligious dialogue2020 - "RANSOM- Roses Are Not the Same Opposing the Media 2021 - "Rose Valley Angels" - fostering active youth citizenship2021- "YES-Young Environmental Saviors"2022- "Youth Participation Matters"2022- "Empowering YOUth to Lead"2023 - "CRAFT-Cultural and Religious Awareness Fostering Tolerance"
We have been working very actively on the topics of women and girl empowerment, women rights, gender equality, fighting gender stereotypes since 2009 with the support of the Bulgarian Women Fund.Since 2019 we are members of the "Equal BG" Civil Coallition fighting for equal rights and social inclusion for all. The Projects we have implemented with the support of the fund are:2009 - "Establishing a Gender Equality Club"2010 - "Gender Equality Month"2011- "Different but with same opportunities"2016-2017 - "М&Мs -Girls and boys with equal opportunities"2017-2018 - "Girls Today-Leaders Tomorrow"2018 - "Step into my shoes"2019 - 2020 "It all depends on us" 2021 - "Who, if not we- the women"
With the support of "America For Bulgaria" Foundation we have implemented two projects helping elderly people in need and disadvantaged young people In 2010 under the project "Better Together" we trained young people from "Daskal Botyo" Orphanage and Roma young people for bar tenders, waiters and cooks in partnership with "General Vladimir Zaimov" High School from the town of Sopot In 2020 under the project " The Power is in US" our youth volunteers distributed 100 humanitarian packages of food products, masks and desinfectants to elderly people and people in need from 5 villages in the Municipality of Karlovo.
In 2019 with the support of Google.org Foundation partnering with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue-London we implemented the pilot for Bulgaria project" Young Digital Leaders". Under the project we trained 450 students, 150 teachers and 50 parents from 3 pilot schools ("Vasil Levski" and "Hristo Prodanov" in Karlov and "General Vladimir Zaimov" in Sopot) on topics such as: digital citizenship, fighting online hate speech and fake news, fostering critical thinking and fighting stereotypes and polarisation in society imposed by media You can learn more about the project from its website: https://sites.google.com/view/young-digital-leaders/
We have also partnered and implemented several projects under the "Europe for Citizens" Programme on important topics such as equality, diversity in Europe, intergenerational dialogue, youth entrepreneurship, the Holocaust etc. Our projects under the programme are:2008-2009 - "4 Miss EU'rope"2010-2011- "How to age in Europe"2012-2013 - "Ideas on the Move"2017-2018 - "We are All Equal"2018-2019 - "The Holocaust on the Balkans"
Under the National Youth Programme of Bulgaria we have implemented the following projects:2008 - "Chance for the Development of Rural Youth" under which we set up the Youth Information centre 2011 - "Join us!" - fostering youth volunteering2016 - " We also want and can do it!" - empowering rural youth from 5 villages
In 2020 with the support of "Bridge47" we upgraded our interreligious dialogue EYF supported project from 2019 . Thus we reached more young people whom we acquainted with the world religions with the interactive board games "The Life Pilgrimage" and "Holy Memo" developed under a KA2 project by our Serbian partners NGO "IUVENTA".
In 2021 we are going to implement our first Erasmus+Small Collaborative Partnerships in Sport project. More about our "Stars of Women" project can be found on its website:https://sites.google.com/view/starsofwomenproject/
We are Move Agents since 2016 and have been annually implementing different sport events for European MOVE WEEK, the European Sports Week, the European Fitness and Flashmob Days.
In 2008 we implemented the project "United by Art" with teh support of "13 Centuries Bulgaria" Foundation. The project aimed at fostering tolerance and intercultural exchange between different ethnic groups on the territory of the Municipality of Karlovo. We organised a bazaar of cultures and traditions of the Bulgarian, Roma, Turish, Sarakachan and other ethnicities and nationalities living in our municipality.
We have been cooperating with "Tulip" Foundation since 2016,. With their support we have been annualy celebrating the Days of Good Deeds in the last week of May with diverse initiatives for social inclusion of the local community prioritizing teh children, families and elderly people. We are looking forward to the start of our new project under their programme" The Power of the Families and the Community". Under our project "The Power is in us and the community" we will offer Sure Start for every child as well as continue the "Early Intervention of Disabilities" service in the sensory room we created with the support of Rotary Club of Karlovo.
We have been cooperating with Rotary Club-Karlovo since 2016 implementing different projects for the local community such as:2016 - "Bridge of Love"2017-2019 -"Alley of Spring"- decorating the main street of the town for Spring Holiday, Easter and Rose Festival 2019 - "Better together" - building a sensory room for children with autism and special needs
We are members of the National Anna Lindh Network for Bulgaria since 2009. We have taken part in national and international meetings and forums of the Foundation. IN 2013-2014 we implemented the project "4D Women Empwerment" supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation in partnership with the South Egypt Development Agency. We had women empowerment trainings, a research about women in the politics of Bulgaria and Egypt publishing a booklet with the results. We organised Days of Bulgarian Culture in Egypt and Days of Arab Culture in Bulgaria under the patronage of the Embassies of Bulgaria and Egypt .
We are among the finalists of the VivaCom Regional Grant 2023 with our project "Young eco-reactors" aiming at raising the environmental awareness of young people with eco- educational games for students from 7 local schools, equipping the schools with bins for separate waste collection, planting trees and carrying out eco-actins along two ecopaths - in Kalofer and Beguntsi.
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