Chitalishta Pleven Public Fund Association, Pleven 

Aim: To test and introduce new model of work with children and their families, living in villages, by the network of local Chitalishte in order to prevent insufficient care and violence against children and their substituent institutionalisation. 
Activities: Studying and identifying of concrete problems, needs and attitudes of target group as well as family and community environment; Introduction of new social services for children in risk and their families in villages of Pleven municipality; Building of sustainable functional organisational structures in rural Chitalishte for after-school activities to help children in their preparatory work for school, personal and creative development; Establishment of a Mobile center for social support; Establishment of local Community councils in five villages; Popularisation and multiplication of the introduced model within the network of rural Chitalishte on the territory of Central North Bulgaria. 
Target groups: 60 children of Roma origin, aged 7-12 (from villages – Bukovlak, Bohot, Brashlianitsa, Tarnene and Yasen in Pleven municipality), living in extreme poverty, who have dropped out from school, living without parental care, raised by relatives or by a single parent, making their living only on social assistance. Some of these children have survived aggression and violence. Their extended families will be also involved in project activities. The project will address indirectly 584 children from five village communities, especially those at risks and in need of support 
Grant: 59 220 leva 
Contacts: Daniela Dimitrova 
Chitalishta Pleven Public Fund Association 
1 Vazrajdane Sq., office 311 
5800, Pleven 
Tel. +359 64 / 836 558 
fond.pleven@gmail.com