About Us
YouHelp.BG is a UK registered company limited by guarantee eligible for charitable status. We work for the benefit of institutionalized abandoned, orphaned and disabled children and adults in Bulgaria.
Our activities are on three different fronts:
1. Volunteer work on the ground in Bulgaria
2. Campaigning for awareness and reform of the existing state care institutes for children and adults
3. Fundraising to support our projects
Our Baba Program started in July 2010
YouHelp BG has helped resurrect the Baba Program at the state institute Drugarche (Bulgarian for Little Friend) in Varna.The state institute Drugarche is a traditional orphanage where 1 staff member is responsible for a large number of children (up to 20 children). The staff can barely meet the physical needs of the children and does not have any time for emotional love and mental stimulation so needed by the children. The results from the previous run of the program show, that the development of some of these extremely vulnerable and neglected children (ages 3 to 6) was so stunted they could not speak more than two or three words before the beginning of the program. The children could not speak not because of any mental or physical disability but simply because no human being ever spoke to them.
For more information and pictures of the children and the Babas click here.
Cocktail Charity Party
with a special performances by
Miro, Lili Ioncheva & Bobby Valchev
YouHelp BG organised a cocktail charity party on the 3rd of December at the Bulgarian Embassy in London. The event was under the patronage of Mr Ivan Stancioff and with the support of the Bulgarian City Club. Guests of the event were the Bulgarian Ambassador My Liubomir Kuchukov, the press attashe Dessidlava Naydenova, Mr Ivan Stancioff, Prince Kyril Saxe-Coburg and many supporters from the Bulgarian community in London.
To support the cause Miro came all the way from Bulgaria and sung with the accompaniment of Lili Ioncheva and Bobby Valchev for over one hour. Apart from his own songs, Miro sung some all time Bulgarian hits and got the audience singing with him...more
