Inter Campus: in Bulgaria with Noykov Foundation

Second annual visit to Inter Campus Bulgaria with the opening of a new children’s centre

BULGARIA – The Inter Campus delegation returned to Bulgaria for the second
annual visit intended for monitoring activities. After landing in Sofia the
group immediately departed for Trojan, a city of 30,000 inhabitants located 160
km east of the capital in the heart of the Balkans.

Joining the 45
children from the Trojan group were two delegations of 15
children from the Inter
Campus cells of Sapareva Bania and Bania, with their respective
instructors. There were a further 20 children (including 10 girls) from
Vradevo. The latter group has officially become part of the Inter
Campus Bulgaria family; they boast a school with an adjoining dormitory that
houses children who, for various reasons, cannot go home to their families
during the school week. They happily and enthusiastically joined up with the
children from the other groups and together participated in four days of play
and training sessions on the pitches in Trojan under the guidance of our
coaches, Paola Balconi and Juri Monzani.

In addition to the integration work carried out by Inter Campus in recent years
(9% of the Bulgarian population is made up of ethnic Roma), a support programme
is now underway for children who come from dysfunctional families.

We send our best wishes to Mr. Venteslav Panchev, the new director of Inter
Campus Bulgaria ‘Stefan Noykov Foundation’.

01.06.2012