28.09.2009

From September 7th to September 10th Gavroche hosted a delegation from St. Petersburg, Russia, consisting of 7 members and including representatives of the organization "Vrachy detyam” /”Врачи Детям”/, as well as representatives of various city and municipal structures in the social sphere of the Russian city. The delegates were engaged in  dynamic program, part of which were the arranged working meetings with leading representatives of local authorities - in the face of the Vice-mayor, the Directors of the Directorate of Social Affairs and Housing Policy - Dr. Zdravko Markov, and the Directorate of “Prevention "- Mrs. Koeva, and others.

Furthermore, part of the program was a round table on  8.09.2009 with representatives of local social structures and services such as  Mrs. Maria Chankova from the Regional Directorate of Social Welfare,  Mrs. Dimitrichka Kuncheva and Mrs. Anna Konukova from the Directorate "Social Assistance", inspectors from  children's pedagogical room, secretary of the local committee “Combating antisocial behavior of minors” - Mrs. Dabina Karlova, the Director of the Complex for social services for children and families - Mrs. Rumyana Yordanova, a representative of  the Directorate for Monitoring Child Rights and others.

Series of trainings were held in September for teachers from several schools in Varna on the topic “Prevention of violence against children”. Trainers were their colleagues trained at an earlier stage of the project. This year, the theme of prevention has been included in the program for the students studying in the specialty “Nurse” at the Department of Public Health at the Medical University. 40 students in the fourth year are going to go through this educational and training course.