The founder of the Bread Houses Network Nadezhda Savova – Grigorova inspired a big community event in the American University in Bulgaria, based in the city of Blagoevgrad – a bread making which brought together more than 40 students and faculty, local social organizations and public officials. Following the steps of the “Theatre of Crumbs” method, they […]
Is 30 seconds enough to present a project idea? Yes! You just have to step on the scene, pick the right words, master a confident position and look your interlocutor in the eyes. This is what the Bread Houses Network team learned in Krakow as part of the first training in the Erasmus+ project The […]
Adam Majewski, a baker and a community activist from Minneapolis, USA is an active Baker without Borders member since 2017. He believes that “Those who are most in need of things like help with food and basic necessities, deserve the best and finest just as much as all other human beings on this planet we […]
Recently the Bread Houses Network models and methods were chosen to be presented on three international platforms aiming at spreading good practices in the field of social change as well as establishing partnerships. You can find us at: RACCOMBAT – a platform aiming at presenting and sharing “tools and mechanisms to prevent and combat racism […]
In December 2018 the BHN team was joined for two weeks by Jana and Sylvia – two energetic students from the University of St Andrews, UK travelling through Europe to visit and work with different food-related projects having a positive environmental or social impact. They created a great video telling what is a Bread House and recorded […]
In September 2018 the BHN team had the great opportunity to participate in the first FedEx Global Leadership Corps program in Bulgaria, aiming at supporting civil society organizations. The project was implemented in partnership with the international organization PYXERA Global and engaged four more Bulgarian NGO’s: Humans in the Loop, JA Bulgaria, Citizens and Trust for Social Achievement. Within the program three […]
Between 12th and 15th July Zdrava Vodenicharova from the Sofia Bread House visited Ulm, Germany and took part in series of events part of the project Tastes of Danube – Bread Connects. On July, 13th the conference “Intangible cultural heritage in the Danube Region – a national asset or a contribution to European identity?” brought together more than […]
Between 4th and 7th July Sandra from the Bread Houses Network participated in the seminar “Experiencing a fairer and more caring society” organized by All Together in Dignity – Fourth World – an international non-governmental organization and a movement of solidarity among and in collaboration with the most excluded families around the world . The […]
For the second year, the Sofia Bread House took part in the Solidarity Fest which took place on 23 and 24 June in front of the Sofia History Museum. The event was organized by Caritas-Sofia in cooperation with Multi Kulti Collective and CVS-Bulgaria. The goal of the festival is „to emphasize the importance of solidarity […]
In June, in Prevala village, about 130 km from the capital of Bulgaria, a new Bread House was opened! It’s located in the old community bakery in the village, equipped with a wooden oven. The Bread House will be combined with a manufactory for natural jams and syrops, which employs women from the local community […]
