6/23/2023 0 Comments Kirsty mystOne Heart Bulgaria trains and hires physical therapists to work with children at several orphanages and care centers around Bulgaria. Paraskeva orphanage where she is “grandma” to 65 babies and children ages 0-4. Vanya is dearly loved by the children at the Sv. ![]() The monthly salary of a baba working on a part-time basis ranges from $100-130, which provides much-needed added income for these wonderful elderly women. Babas who work with children with disabilities are often former nurses or physical therapists. Babas receive training and education in childcare and basic dental hygiene. As a result, One Heart Bulgaria employs babas to care for children at orphanages all over Bulgaria. We receive many calls with requests from orphanage directors who want to be included in this program. There is wide interest in the work our babas do. This is an invaluable program that helps the children receive the individual attention and love they desperately need, which aids them in their social skills and emotional and personal development. Some babas may be assigned to work one-on-one with children with severe mental or physical disabilities. Babas also help the little ones bathe, brush teeth, and prepare for bed or for their day. In our Baba Program, we hire grandmothers (“babas”), to give individual attention and nurture the children by reading to them, helping them with homework, and playing with them. ![]() Please read about our programs below to find the best way for you to get involved with One Heart Bulgaria and truly make a difference to this country in crisis. The number of helping hands and giving hearts that get involved with our efforts directly correlates with our ability to take care of thousands of abandoned children throughout Bulgaria. Our efforts have the added benefit of supporting Bulgaria’s economy through local purchases of food, equipment, and supplies, and employing local citizens to help implement our programs in the orphanages and children’s hospitals. We provide trained caregivers to properly care for the children complete special projects and renovations at the orphanages implement life skills training programs for the teenage orphans and work with underprivileged pregnant girls and women who are at risk for abandoning their children. We achieve these goals by providing for the basic needs of the children, including specialized medical care for children with disabilities. ![]() Our long-term goals are 1.) help orphans reintegrate into Bulgaria’s society as healthy, well-adjusted citizens 2.) offer training and support for foster care programs 3.) eradicate child abandonment 4.) help close down the orphanage system and end Bulgaria’s orphan crisis. Orphanage Program DescriptionsĪll of One Heart Bulgaria’s programs were created with the goal of dramatically improving the lives of children living in orphanages as well as preventing child abandonment from occurring in the first place.
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