The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate presents:

Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children
(documentary, BBC, 2007, 88', made by Kate Blewett)

screening of the film followed by a debate on the institutional care for children with disabilities in Bulgaria.
With the special participation of the BBC journalist and author of the documentary: Kate Blewett





The documentary shocked the audience in the UK and frightened Bulgarian institutions.
After the broadcasting on BBC the Movement of Bulgarian Mothers organized a petition for the closure of the home in Mogilino and made a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy asking the Minister to resign. Is there a chance that we discover Bulgaria’s children again?

With the participation of people involved in the documentary and representatives of institutions, non-governmental organizations and human rights lawyers.
The idea is to cross the points of views of the people involved in the making of the documentary (Kate Blewett), coalition of NGO’s (Slavka Kukova, BHC and Ivanka Shalapatova, “For Our Children” Foundation), Rossitza Bukova, Movement of the Bulgarian Mothers, Tzvetelina Iossifova, The Red House, Director and the state institutions who are responsible on decision making on the topic.

Invitation for being a part of the panel discussion has been sent to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, State Agency for Children Protection, Agency for Social Support, Ministry for Education and Science and personally to:
- Mrs. Emilia Maslarova – minister of labour and social policy
- Mrs. Shirin Mestan – director of the State Agency for Children Protection
- Mrs. Darinka Jankova – Agency for Social Support
- Mr. Assen Petrov – expert Ministry for Education and Science
Invitation to be part of the open discussion with the audience is also directed to the Embassies of UK and the Netherldands and International organizations who work the topic.

The film is in English. The discussion is in Bulgarian.
Part of the series “The Films That the State Wishes Did Not Exist”.
Free entrance

November 6 (Tuesday), 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Free entrance



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