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Projects
2025 - 2026 ( ongoing )
ROOTS AWAKENING 2 ESC Volunteering Project
2024 - 2025
ROOTS AWAKENING 1 ESC Volunteering Project
2022 - 2023
TRANS GREEN INSPIRATION PROJECT
2021 - 2022
EDUCATIONAL ECO-COMMUNITIES
2010 - 2019
ALL PROJECTS
ROOTS AWAKENING 2024-2025
ESC Volunteering Project
Since 2024, the association "Hope for us" holds a quality label for Lead organisation.
Roots Awakening is it's first ESC volunteering project which aims to develop the community and individuals through short term individual and team volunteering. The programme offers a variety of environmental and solidarity activities for volunteers and facilitates the development of green skills, personal growth, physical and mental wellbeing, entrepreneurial skills and supports the development of the local eco-community.
Apply to become a volunteer: https://forms.gle/iYMNtfMKro7QiUfe9
Link to INFOPACK SPRING 2025: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIpvLwxMJzB68XlUEW6I8H1SyyvYrwpc/view?usp=sharing
Watch our videos from the Roots Awakening project in 2024:
https://youtu.be/_RcTLwJKJFA
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the NA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
TRANS GREEN INSPIRATION 2022 - 2023
Erasmus + KA2 Project
In 2023, the "Hope for Us" аssociation successfully implemented "Trans Green Inspiration" project in partnership with "Natural Perspective" Association from North Macedonia.
The project is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ KA2 program. The main goal is to create and implement an innovative and sustainable training model for young people in social entrepreneurship and development of green business ideas for environmental protection.
Download the handbooks:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZVC4GorJVdC58zSngcHCtLysgtVbMaa8?usp=share_link
Link to video of our partners “Natural Perspective”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zzQIoeY-Nbak-3-ZJHuDM56TvfALKbjH/view?usp=share_link
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the NA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Association "Hope for us" is a partner in ERASMUS+ Project "CLIPS your community"
CLIPS training took place the Mountains of Stara Planina, Serbia from 3rd September till 9th September 2023.
Thanks to ERASMUS+, NGO Zeleno doba organised “CLIPS your community” training for youth leaders with the support of CLIPS trainers and our hosts “Walking by the Earth” and a local sustainable rural community. This event attracted 23 participants from 7 countries (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Kosovo).
Along with knowledge and skills transfer from the CLIPS framework and its instant application to participants’ projects and their work with youth, it was also collective work on envisioning, designing, and weaving the Balkan network of sustainable initiatives.
The network will support collaboration within local communities, teams and projects to make Balkan society and bioregions more resilient and regenerative.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the NA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
EDUCATIONAL ECO-COMMUNITIES - INSPIRATION FOR ECO-ACTIVISTS
Project 2021-2022
Funded by Active citizens fund of EEA GRANTS (2015-2021)
01.09.2021-31.12.2022
The ACF / 796 project is being implemented with the financial support of EUR 85,650 provided by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria within the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area . The main goal of the project is to create and implement an innovative sustainable model for training eco-activists in real functioning educational eco-communities.
In September 2021 the association "Hope for us-2008" started the implementation of the project "Educational eco- communities - inspiration for eco-activists" in partnership with the association "Trinoga", URA GORA Foundation and the association "Ladies Invite"
The project addresses several deficits related to the organization of environmentally oriented activities in Bulgaria: First, the lack of natural learning environment and established technology for the dissemination of practical knowledge and skills for environmental protection and restoration in Bulgaria. The project responds to the real need of many young people to learn to be active citizens through real action in the natural environment. The Covid 19 pandemic reinforced this attitude.
- Over the years, the eco-groups involved in the project have gradually become self-sustainable eco-communities training volunteers, but this is still happening spontaneously.
- Second, environmental activities are always organized as short-term actions that do not cover natural processes in their completeness. Living in the nature and caring for certain areas of it, implementing recreational and conservative agriculture, the project partners eco-communities show how nature care must become a systematic and sustainable activity to be able to effectively combat climate change.
- Third, eco-activist groups and communities still do not interact enough with each other and with local communities and authorities and do not actively participate in the development and implementation of eco-educational policies in Bulgaria. New waves of environmental activists need to learn how to do this in practice.
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Handbook for Trainers of Eco-activists BG
Training model for Eco-activists BG
In the short term, the project trained 100 young activists in 4 educational eco-communities, promoted their activities and supported their interaction with local communities and authorities. In the long run, a new sustainable educational environment will be created, offering a model for effective and sustainable learning for young people wishing to develop environmental activities.
This publication was created with the financial support of Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria under the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area. All responsibility for the content of the publication is carried by the „Hope for us “association and under no circumstances it can be accepted, that this video reflects the official opinion of the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area and the Operator of the Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria.
PROJECTS FROM 2010 TO 2019
2018-2019
Establishment of social enterprise for bio-cosmetics in Plovdiv- funded by ESF through the Ministry of Labour and Social Care program “Social Entrepreneurship”. For that project our expert team elaborated a special training program, which was adapting the young women, leaving institutions for children without parental care, to their independent life and first work-place.
2016-2017
In its first years the social enterprise received financial support from two foundations The “Old Beech” from Netherland and FICE Bulgaria
2014
NGO "For the earth" supported a project of cleaning up the forest in the Roma neighbourhood "Fakulteta" and planting trees with the Roma children .
2013 - 2014
"Implementation of the Program for overcoming psycho-emotional, social and educational deficits among children and youngsters raised at homes for children, deprived of parental care " funded by the Small Grants Program of EEA Grants 2009 – 2014 . This program was elaborated not only for the mentioned target group but it also was designed to involve and prepare volunteers for carrying out activities with the children.
2011-2012
"Friends" were computer training camps. We organised 3 summer camps for the children and youngsters living at the home for children without parental care Asen Zlatarov, Vratsa town. The project was funded by Social aid Fund at the Ministry of The Labour and Social Care and the multinational software company VM WARE. In the execution of the project took part also volunteering VM WARE employees.
2010 and 2011
"Elaboration of a Program for overcoming psycho-emotional and social deficits of children aged 7 – 12 years, raised at homes for children deprived of parental care" funded by the Trust for Social Initiative and Open Society Institute Foundation - Elaboration of the program, training model and resources .