“Childhood for all”

The State Agency for Child Protection, the Agency for Social Assistance and Lumos Bulgaria met with the parents of 1252 children with disabilities living in institutions in order to explore their willingness and possibilities to maintain contact with them. The assessment took place within the framework of the project “Childhood for all” aimed at deinstitutionalization of children with disabilities. Such assessment is done for the first time in Bulgaria. During the meetings with the parents, the experts heard hundreds personal stories about the reasons of abandonment, the feeling of guilt, about the secrets kept for years.

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