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 […]

The Bread Houses Network was nominated for Bulgaria’s 2017 “Inspiring Initiative of the Year.” Please watch our nomination video at https://www.bnt.bg/bg/a/nagradite-buditel-2017 and vote for our initiative from any part of the world until October 31 here: http://fmplus.net/buditel2017/index.php.

Between 19 and 22 October the city of Opole hosted the first International Game Pedagogy Festival in Poland, organized by the Polish Association of Pedagogues and Animators KLANZA . The colorful and cheerful event gathered teachers, trainers, facilitators and animators for whom plays and creative activities are the best method for achieving intellectual and emotional […]

The first trainings (on September, 29-30 and October, 6-7) in the Bread in the Dark method started on September, 29-30 and October, 6-7. The trainings were part of the “Bread in the Dark – We Knead to Mix” project, funded by Vivacom Regional Grant (http://vivacomfund.bg/#home). Fifteen people with sight impairments participated in the training. Together […]

On September 29, Sandra from the Sofia Bread House team took part in the Academy of Cultural Management 2017, where she presented the work of the Bread Houses Network from the point of view of innovation in the social and cultural field. The Academy was organized by the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, the Sofia Development Association and the […]