The Bulgarian Platform of NGOs for International Development (BPID) playing the role of national GCAP coalition participated to the Global Action against poverty led by GERT and its volunteers!
Thousands of leaflets, pins, postcards and T-shirts have been disseminated among young people in schools and universities and people in the street in front of the National Parliament. The Stand-up Take Action campaign was run simultaneously in Sofia, Varna, Karlovo and Rakovski. They demanded the (...) (continue)

The date itself - 12.08. is the International Youth Day. The girls from the Bulgarian GERT foundation organized a campaign for raising the awareness of the young people on SRHR. The action was in support of their international partners from ASTRA Youth. The action was called “Healthy Youth- Healthy Future!”
During the action which was led by Elizabet Dimitrova, Iva Tachkova and Mirela Petrova various materials were disseminated: stickers, informational materials and pins specially created for (...) (continue)

The International Day for Safer Internet will be celebrated for the fourth time on February 6, 2007. For the first time Bulgaria was invited to take part in this event in 2005. In 2006 thirty seven countries throughout the world took part in the celebration. (continue)

The seminar was organized by Prague Global Policy Institute – Glopolis in cooperation with Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B) (continue)

From 2 to 8 January 2006 the holiday complex "Sveta gora" next to Veliko Tarnovo hosted 25 children from different social institutions in Bulgaria, their educators and their trainers for a peer-to-peer education. (continue)

Between 4 and 6 November 2005, Gender Education, Research and Technologies foundation(GERT) gathered ten women from non-governmental organizations for a training on basic economic literacy. It was held at the office of the Women’s Alliance for Development (WAD) and the trainers were Anita Seibert from the Karat Coalition, Poland and Jivka Marinova from GERT, Bulgaria. (continue)

“For the first time ever, both Catholic and sexual health and rights activists have joined hands in creating a 16-country coalition using 11 languages to challenge what is a great injustice: the Vatican’s ban on the use of condoms,” said Ozzi Warwick, a HIV/AIDS activist from Trinidad and Tobago. “We have said it loudly so that it rings around the world. Last year, there were 39.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS. Almost 60,000 people died of AIDS this week as we waited for the pope. We will (...) (continue)

From June 9 to 11, 2005 the World March of Women and the Women’s Global Charter for Humanity passed through Bulgaria.
Adopted on December 10, 2004 in Kigali, Rwanda and started the world relay on March 8 in Brazil the Charter is moving from country to country. The main goal of the Charter is to initiate debates and campaigns for poverty eradication and elimination of violence against women.
The Charter is moving around together with a unique patch blanket, containing artistic quilts (...) (continue)