It has been a busy summer for Sofia Baptist Church as their new Social, Medical and Training Centre gets into full use. Literacy Classes In June the Literacy Class held its end of term presentations: Summer Camps Then, no rest for the teachers as they ran very successful camps in the summer holidays for families, children […]
Since the Official Opening last autumn, seven conferences have taken place in the Centre, all successful, including the Council of the European Baptist Federation honoured by the President of Bulgaria. He welcomed guests and congratulated Sofia Baptist Church on its humanitarian initiative, acknowledging that all agencies need to work together to solve the intractable human, […]
Many years ago a young school-girl called Krasimira hated the way some teachers and children despised her Roma appearance and ways, so she didn’t go to school. Occasionally she came to literacy classes in the old Sofia Baptist Church where she learned the basics of reading and writing. She never finished her education, but soon […]
A great time full of moments to remember indeed. God made it special for the children and for the team that travelled. But let me tell you all about it from the start. The preparation started as early, as the first days of November. We contacted all the institutions we were about to go to. […]
Our studies in the last month have gone very well. We keep meeting and having our literacy classes every week. Few of the children are now kept in home to take care of the small ones and help in the house chores, which is something that happens as summer approaches. We regret that very […]
A child called Kinche from one of the orphanages in Berkovitsa disappeared a few months ago. She was a Roma girl who had 11 brothers and sisters and was abandoned by her parents very early in life. It was known she had lived with an older man somewhere in northern Bulgaria, but the school authorities […]
Vaska started walking to the church as soon as she was able to wander on her own, at about the age of three. No-one cared much where or how far she went, being one of 7 children, all with different fathers, living in a temporary hovel near the Church.