The largest number of children so far – 120 – took part in three Christmas bazars, selling a number of Christmas gifts they had made in the art sessions run by ZOV.
This year with the help of CORDET, ZOV provided 183 children and young adults from 13 Residential Centres in Veliko Tarnovo and Gorna Oryahovitsa with Christmas presents and parties. Additionally, ZOV organised two more Christmas parties and events for 50 children from schools we work with.
Summer Trips – 128 children from 10 centers went on a summer trip this year to mountain camps at Stara Plana, Baba Stana and sea camps at Kraimorie. Games, activities, walking, learning to cook, making art and crafts and theatre sessions were organised.
16th Anniversary of the Crisis center- where ZOV was invited as a special quest. We have being supporting the centre for over ten years.
Paid Work Experience – 13 children took part in our work experience programme, some of which received summer and part time jobs as a result
Largest ever trip away to Ksilifor to mark the end of the mentoring and outreach project, with 93 children and mentors from eight centres. The children got to canoe, wall climb, play sports and perform in concerts and competitions.
Charlotte Healey, one of the trustees, went to Bulgaria in May 2022 to see ZOV’s work in action and to participate in some of the sessions.
Alongside the municipality, ZOV helped organise a celebration for Child’s Day in the local park where 77 children, we work with, participated in a number of games and competitions, including maths, sports and painting.
60 children participated in a Spring Bazaar selling the arts and crafts they had made in the ZOV sessions.
We are now supporting refugees from Ukraine in the Crisis Centre for Women and Children. We are providing food, clothes and sanitary items and will continue to support in anyway we can.
Iskra who is part of our team working in a Centre for Children with Special Needs will start a PhD this year. She will use her work with ZOV to look at how to improve the social and lifeskills of young people with special needs.
In the winter months the children went ice skating and even went on a two day trip to Uzana where they participated in winter sports. Other outdoor activities included, basketball, badminton and football. Children also made use of the tennis table and sports rooms inside the Home