The Children's Home at Skobelevo
Amount needed: $600.00
Amount raised:$661.00
Funds utilization: Computers and books
Status: Successfully accomplished
Partners:
>Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church "Sveta Petka"    >Rotaract Club Plovdiv
Pictures of the donation
List of Donators
Financial details
Fund raising through: personal donations, sale of martenitsi, birthday party

About the project
Our first project is to support the kids at The Children's Home at Skobelevo. Skobelevo is a small village in Bulgaria, between the town of Plovdiv and Haskovo.  There are 47 homeless children living in the institution, between 7 and 15 years old. Most of them are without parents or have been neglected. Some of them have parents that are in prison or in other correctional facilities. The kids go to school to the local school at Skobelevo and have both lunch and dinner back in the house. Here is more information in Bulgarian about the children’s house provided to us by its Director. 

Our goal is (1) to provide those kids the opportunities to learn computers, (2) to become familiar with basic software skills including Windows, and MS Office and (3) to bring them closer to the fascinating world of computer games and computer entertainment.

To achieve that we decided to equip one of the “class rooms” in the house with two used computers as well as computer books and other educational materials. According to the Director there is a school teacher in Skobelevo who has volunteered to teach and train the children.

Our friends, Rotaract Club Plovdiv, will help us with the donation and will ensure the proper spending and utilization of the proceeds. They will buy the PCs and will network them. They will also provide free maintenance and support. 

The project has been successfully accomplished. A group of fellow Rotarians from Plovdiv donated the computers on April 25, 2004. Click on the pictures below to see more. 

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Financial Breakdown Amount raised: $661.00 less PayPall Expenses: $10.88 Wire to Bulgaria: $25.00 Net Amount: $626.00 Last Update: 05/04/2004                                                                                                                                               Up

For more information contact 
Marieta Kirilova at kmarieta@yahoo.com, 617-562-8290 or 
Vladimir Harkovski  at harkovski@hotmail.com, 617-818-8315

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