Since 2016 М.Е "Youth Centrе Plovdiv" organizes and conducts charity bazaars each year for Christmas and Easter with the title "From children to children". In the bazaars take part schools, kindergardens, NGOs and volunteers. Participants join the bazaar with handmade gifts, cards and souvenirs, which they sell. With the raised funds the participants support a cause of their choice. The purpose of these events is to motivate young people to do good deeds, to be supportive, responsible, and to evoke empathy. At the same time, through their personal example, they will attrack more and more people to get involved in this type of activity.
Easter Bazaar - 2024
Municipal enterprise "Youth Center Plovdiv" welcomed Lazarus Day and Tsvetnitsa by holding its traditional Charity Easter Bazaar "From Children to Children" in front of GRAND shopping center. The event was opened by Nikolay Bukhalov - Deputy Mayor "Sports and Youth Activities" at the Municipality of Plovdiv.
Our benefactors once again took part in the bazaar to support various charitable causes. This edition included:
- schools: OU "Vasil Levski", SU "Sv.Sedmochiselnitsi", PGKIT "Dr. Ivan Bogorov", PGHTT Plovdiv, ChPGIKI "Academic Blagovest Sendov";
- kindergartens: "Valentina" kindergarten, "Miroslava" kindergarten;
- creators: Galabina Atanasova and Yanko Vrachev, Olga Lukashina;
- organizations: BKO Caritas Vitania, Regional Center for Supporting the Process of Inclusive Education, "Parallel World" Association;
- University: Plovdiv Technical University.
The amount collected with common efforts, talent and dedication is worth BGN 7,407.42.
The causes chosen by the participants are: support of children and young people with intellectual disabilities, help of homeless animals, support of a social enterprise, donation for opening children's clinical departments, "Together for Kotse", "Let's help Stanislav", " Shared Easter", "In Plovdiv - without a home", "Let's help Ivan Nikolov", "Violence has no place in children's lives", "Together the mountain is accessible".
The team of OP "Youth Center Plovdiv" expresses its sincere thanks to the Trade and Administrative Center "GRAND" for the opportunity to organize the event for another year, as well as to all benefactors and volunteers who participated in the bazaar and helped to prepare and hold it .
The bazaar is realized under the project "Youth center Plovdiv - a powerful factor for local development" under the program "Local development, poverty reduction and improved inclusion of vulnerable groups", financed by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014 - 2021.
Christmas Bazaar - 2023
Our traditional Charity Christmas Bazaar "From Children to Children" took place this past weekend.
It was attended by:
- schools: EG "Ivan Vazov", PGKIT "Dr. Ivan Bogorov", PGMT "Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov", SU "Sveti Sedmochiselnitsi" and SU "Chernorizets Hrabar";
- the organizations: "Carefree Childhood", "Caritas Vitania", "National Association of Children with Diabetes" and "Parallel World";
- Kindergarten "Valentina";
- the creators: Daniela Uzunova-Simeonova, Olga Lukashina and Ralitsa Hristeva.
All of them, with the talent and elegance of their handmade creations, collected the sum of BGN 5,104.36.
With the money collected, the participants supported charitable causes that they themselves determined. They were associated with homes for children deprived of parental care, children and youth with intellectual disabilities and special educational needs, raising funds for the participation of children with diabetes in an international tournament in Poland in 2024 and raising funds for food for the needy people.
In addition to the bazaar, the benefactors also participated in the celebration of the International Human Rights Day.
They took a photo with our special frame for the day and shared how they felt about it.
Once again, we proved and showed that good triumphs, thanks to all benefactors and benefactors.
Our sincere thanks to everyone who participated!
We wish you happy holidays filled with warmth, love and kindness!
The bazaar is realized under the project "Youth center Plovdiv - a powerful factor for local development" under the program "Local development, poverty reduction and improved inclusion of vulnerable groups", financed by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014 - 2021.