In the second half of February, we launched the “Bakers Without Borders – B(re)aking Bread and Borders” project, supported by the Niwano Peace Foundation, Japan. In the coming months, young people from several ethnic minorities will “mix” and become friends with Bulgarian youth. Each group will take part in three different workshops – a bread-making […]
In mid-February, the Sofia Bread House team met with Gergana Hristova, founder and driving force of the Bulgarian school in Milan, Italy. Gergana came from Italy specifically to learn the methods of the Bread Houses Network. During her three-day visit, Gergana became acquainted and trained in the programs, methods, and the social-entrepreneurial model of the […]
At the end of January 2018, Milena and Lily from the Sofia Bread House team took part in visual awareness training on the project “Applied Theater in Support of Children and Youth with Visual Impairments,” funded by the EU and more specifically the European Social Fund Operation Programme on Human Resources Development. Participants in the […]
At the end of January, 2018, the Bread Houses Network took part in the No More War festival, an initiative of CVS-Bulgaria in the framework of Service Civil International (SCI) PATH project. The festival’s main focus was on peace in its micro and macro dimensions. During our participation, a group of young people who are […]
On January 18 we played the “Build a Bread House” educational game on social entrepreneurship with 60 youngsters from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia. By using the stages of growing wheat, we discussed how we can create a Bread House in their communities and which social groups can participate in the functioning of the Bread House. […]
In December, Zdrava Vodenicharova our team took part in the 8th Mont-Blanc Meetings international forum in Archamps, France. The goal of the forum is to promote Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) within a pluralistic economy around the world with a specific theme of SEE: The New Efficiency. The event was a gathering between social and […]
During the holiday season we released the first issue of our Bread for Change Magazine. You can check out what we were up to over the past few months by reading the magazine here.
In the first half of November, the Sofia Bread House held the first of a series of bread-making events that mixed children from the local community with refugee children from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The event was co-organized by the Sofia Bread House and the Council of Refugee Women in Bulgaria and was funded by […]
We are launching a series of children’s books written and illustrated by our founder and president, Dr. Nadezhda Savova-Grigorova, cultural anthropologist (Princeton University) and “Traveler with a Mission of the Year 2012” of the global National Geographic. The books are separate from the game Bakers without Borders, but related to it. They go under the […]
In October, the annual conference of Hands On! International (http://www.hands-on-international.net/), the international association of children museums, held its conference in the Czech Republic. The title of the conference was “The Future in Children’s Hands – Informal Education as an Instrument for Social Change.” During the conference we had the opportunity and pleasure to present the […]
