By Desislava Ivanova | Projects and internal communications specialist
Greetings from the Step for Bulgaria Foundation!
We are happy to inform you that our Mentoring program continues with full force! We are discussing the possibilities of a recent partnership with 12 schools situated in underprivileged areas in the outskirts of Sofia and in the Sofia Region. We are planning to choose six of them and to develop the Program at the time of the coming school year. We intend to design it as a bridge between business and school education, possibly by applying some international expertise coming from the part of our partners.
The mentoring help that we offer expands beyond school education. A recent example of that and a personal story that we would like to share with you is that of Vesela, one of our youths. She is studying Psychology in the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. Vesela is a full-time student with a part-time job. Her mentor is helping her with her Spanish lessons. The girl could not afford to buy herself a computer for her studies, so as to prepare her lessons and assignments. She was one of the first to benefit from the assistance that the Foundation offers in the form of provision of computer and peripheral equipment. Recently, the computer that Vesela had received as a donation broke-down and was repaired shortly after with the help of her mentor and by using the resources, offered under the Mentoring program. The computer was returned to Vesela fully-operational and she managed to submit all her written assignments on time!
We hope that with the development of our Program in the near future, we could reach even more young people and offer them the assistance they need in order to take advantage of various opportunities for personal and professional development that exist around them! Your kind and generous support to our cause is what makes this scenario possible! Thank you! We look forward to continue with of our efforts and harvest the best results possible!
Sincerely,
The Step for Bulgaria Foundation team
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