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July 5, 2020

Volunteering Campaign Hand-Lend to a Village

How to contribute to the well-being of the Bulgarian villages? How to make them more lively and their cultural and natural treasures – more visible and valued?

We believe the answer lies in communicating with the local communities and co-creating with them short and long term activities in the villages. 5 years in a row we plant the seeds of this vision within our Baba Residence initiative.

Volunteer in villages in 5 regions in Bulgaria

If you can’t wait to put your energy into something constructive and your heart is aching that the Bulgarian villages are so neglected, despite their huge potential to be full of life and become attractive places for young people, here is how you could contribute. Every month you’ll have an opportunity to choose from at least 4 different short-term volunteering activities in villages, part of the Baba Residence network.

The first activities are in the months June and July in the villages:

  • Voynyagovo (Kralovo) – upgrading the park / 27 June – 10 – 17
  • Chernyovo(Ihtiman) – cleaning the drinking fountain /11 July – 10 – 17
  • Pavolche (Vratsa) – upgrading the park / 11 July – 10 – 17
  • Koshava (Vidin) – cleaning the theatre hall / 11 – 12 July – 10 – 16
  • Chelopek (Vratsa) – upgrading the park and the playground / 15 July – 10 – 17
  • Kliment (Karlovo) – upgrading the Family Trees Lane; assembling the installation One day in a village / 18 – 19 July – 10 – 16
  • Dobarsko (Razlog) – painting the bridges and installations close to the church; arranging books in the chitalishte (community center); cleaning around the waterfall / 25 – 26 July – 10 – 16 ч

Fill in the form and take part in the first steps towards a village-favourable future!

March 16, 2016

А statistics-jar for “Baba Residence”

Before we throw ourselves in the living adventure called “Baba Residence”, we decided to test the water with one preliminary survey and get to know the attitudes and thoughts of university students and unemployed graduates from Plovdiv and Sofia.

We share with you a part of the infographics, based on the results of a quantitative survey, made by “Media Links” for Ideas Factory.

We filled the jars with number and here’s what came out!

From the results you can see the lack of motivation and dejection of unemployed graduates – many of them would not want to learn any craft, would not have live in a remote rural area, do not intend to develop their own business, and expect mostly high income from their future job.

The university student bring a ray of light to the statistic – a huge percentage of them would want to learn how to cook, make jewelry from beads, sing and become mountain guides. It is gratifying that they would take the challenge to live in a remote rural area and would want to develop their own business.

We have always been interested in the topic about education and we have never stopped digging in it. An interesting fact is that, when they were asked the question of whether the knowledge they have acquired at the university, would help them to start their own business, 38% of the students answered it would “rather not”.

A chance to grow and be satisfied from the work you have done – that is what the students expect from their future job.

The lack of financing is that keeps both students and unemployed graduates from starting their own business.

You don’t think that the results from the quantitative survey have frightened us, do you? On the contrary – they motivated us even more, to change the numbers and help the young people in Bulgaria to find themselves, by going back to the roots!

What’s going to happen – keep your eyes on our “Baba Residence”!