Provide Long-Term Mentors to Disadvantaged Youth

Greetings from the Step for Bulgaria Foundation! We are happy to inform you that our Mentoring program continues to develop and that the number of the participants in it also grows. Recently, another underprivileged youth has become part of our community. In July 17-years old Svetoslava contacted the Foundation with a request to receive mentoring support in finding a new job and for extra-curricular activities. Because of her working commitment, Svetoslava was lagging at school, so she wanted to catch up in some of her school subjects.  She turned to us after she had to take some resits.  We met her with two of our mentors - Gergana and Dobrina. Gergana will help Svetodlava in her Spanish lessons during the new school year, while Dobrina will prepare her for her Bulgarian language lessons. Meanwhile, the girl managed to find a new job, and now she is going to combine her with her lessons.

The other good news that we would like to share with you is that in September we plan to organize two career development workshops for the students of two secondary schools ­– one in Sofia and one outside the capital. We would like to meet the youths who study there with inspiring professionals from different fields. They will tell them more about their work and will discuss with them what does their job require in terms of mind-set, skills, knowledge and experience.   This will help them become better acquainted with the different professions and follow a career path that meets their interests, aspirations and ambitions.

We hope that pretty soon, as a result of the two career development workshops, we will have more good news for you. We will continue to share with you the dreams and achievements of our youths, as well as the future activities that we plan and their results. Thank you so much for being a part of our success stories!

Best regards,

The Step for Bulgaria Team