LISTEN TO CHILDREN’S DREAMS

Listen to Children’s Dreams is a long-term social program of GLOBUL and is targeted at improving the communication skills and the socialization of underprivileged children in Bulgaria by means of art.

The purpose of the program is to enable the children to learn to communicate, to express themselves in a free way, to have confidence and thus become valuable members of society. In the process of art communication psychologists and artists work and create together with the children thus encouraging them to be more independent, confident, frank and courageous. The methods they use are art-therapy, psychodrama and role plays. The work aims to improve the children’s skills for interpersonal communication, decision-making, personal choice and self-control. Another major objective is to make the children “put in order” the things they know about their past and start to make plans about the future – the way all children do.

For a third consecutive year GLOBUL will invest all revenue of text messages, sent between its subscribers on Christmas day for fulfillment of initiatives under the program Listen to Children’s Dreams. In 2006 GLOBUL invested 117000 BGN in the program and in 2007 – 150000 BGN.

Thanks to the funds collected with your greeting messages on Christmas Day, the following institutions are included up to now:

1. N. I. Vaptsarov School for mentally disabled children in the town of Elhovo – a pilot school for the program Listen to the Children’s Dreams. The group therapy there started still in November 2005. It is one of the biggest schools for children with a different degree of mental retardation. We have been supporting the school for four consecutive years.
2. Penyo and Maria Velkovi - child and youth home in Veliko Tarnovo – the work with the children started in 2006.
3. Sv. Nikolai Mirlikiiski - child and youth home in Blagoevgrad – the work with the children started in 2006.
4. Tanue Voivoda – child and youth home in Asenovgrad – the work with the children started in 2007.
5. Asen Zlatarov – child and yout home in Vratsa – the work with the children started in 2007.

Listen to Children's Dreams is carried out with the support of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and the Bulgarian Charity Aid Foundation in cooperation with the Red House Center for culture and debate. The social program of GLOBUL supports the state policy in the area of reform of the system for rearing children in disadvantaged social position.

Ambassador and face of the initiative is the charming pop singer Beloslava.

Art for Social Change programme