By Maia Hristozova | Project Leader
HAPPY NEW YEAR from Bulgaria. And yes, it is a bit late, but we have a saying in Bulgaria: Better late than never.
We would like to thank you for remaining faithful to our cause in 2019 and we look forward to continue working together in 2020. Yes, even though some of you may have not been in Bulgaria, we are working together - your involvement in this project is so signifficant, that without your spiritual and financial support, we wouldn't be able to do what we are doing. We hope and we wish that in the new year your life is filled with joy and peaceful moments and you have an abundance of blessings! Speaking of peace, our 2019 could be described as a peaceful year, focusing on administration, communication, individual consultations and expanding our vision. We had 4 new businesses started, two of which with your financial help - they received start up credits. Two of our beneficiaries completely paid off their credits. We are currently working on developing a business plan for a family run sales company, trading with cookies and candies. While their numbers are OK, the family has never been challenged to think about Social Impact of their business so we are now guiding them through the process of changing mindset to be more 'community oriented', rather than earning money for personal gain only. We will keep you informed how this goes in the next months.
In 2019 we spent time analyzing our training experience and some new teaching ideas emerged, one particular in the area of Financial Management. So while we do not yet have a training
We would like to thank you for remaining faithful to our cause in 2019 and we look forward to continue working together in 2020. Yes, even though some of you may have not been in Bulgaria, we are working together - your involvement in this project is so significant, that without your spiritual and financial support, we wouldn't be able to do what we are doing. We hope and we wish that in the new year your life is filled with joy and peaceful moments and you have an abundance of blessings! Speaking of peace, our 2019 could be described as a peaceful year, focusing on administration, communication, individual consultations and expanding our vision. We had 4 new businesses started, two of which with your financial help - they received start up credits. Two of our beneficiaries completely paid off their credits. We are currently working on developing a business plan for a family run sales company, trading with cookies and candies. While their numbers are OK, the family has never been challenged to think about Social Impact of their business so we are now guiding them through the process of changing mindset to be more 'community oriented', rather than earning money for personal gain only. We will keep you informed how this goes in the next months.
In 2019 we spent time analysing our training experience and some new teaching ideas emerged, one particular in the area of Financial Management. So while we do not yet have a training curriculum on the topic we have partnered with an organization providing Financial Management training and we are starting 2020 with several action items planned. Already planned is our next Entrepreneurial training as well - starting March 20th it will be in North-East Bulgaria. A Baptist church was so kind to offer us their facility and we gladly accepted. Organizing it this time is smoother than usual because as of October last year we have a new administrative assistant working for us.
Meet Dessy - she is 23, just graduated from university, Bachelor Degree in Marketing and Media. We are so happy to have her on board that we would like to make everything possible to keep her longer. She comes from a family with 4 children, sadly their father passed away 8 years ago, but the financial difficulty did not stop her nor her sister to complete their studies.
We are excited about the new year, expecting many business adventures, new contacts and mainly - we would like to see more people growing in their economical status and helping the community around them.
We hope to spend this year together with you, we would like to hear from you and we would like to thank you once again for being with us in 2019!
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