Optimism for Bulgaria

When in 2017 she participated in the Research Science Institute (RSI), the world’s most prestigious summer science and engineering program for high school students, Tania Otsetarova worked on a math

While her peers go out with friends or relax, Radostina “Radi” Avramova spends every weekend in the company of 5- to 10-year-old “cadets,” helping them take their first steps in

The team of the ABF-supported Vratsa Software Community were ranked among Bulgaria’s worthiest citizens in 2018 by the readers of 24 Hours, one of the country’s main daily newspapers. Emiliyan

Mario Manchev is a fifth-grade student from Karlovo, Central Bulgaria. He is the youngest participant in the Bulgarian National English Spelling Bee, in which middle schoolers from around Bulgaria spell

As the manager of the Alternative Art Forms festival in Gabrovo, Svetoslav thought that an acrobatic number would be a great addition to the festival program. But his search for

Mustafa Ramadan comes from the Roma neighborhood in the Northeast Bulgarian town of Provadia. He studied in a vocational high school preparing students for manual work in construction, but he

Iva Tsolova and Joana Koleva don’t think of the disabled as people with impairments: they call them people with different abilities. This is the philosophy that drives their collaborative project Jamba,

Did you know that over EUR 60 billion is donated to causes such as human rights protection, health and education, animal care and environmental protection each year in Europe? On

What do chocolate and classical music have in common, you ask? The answer is Fortissimo, conductor Maxim Eshkenazy and violinist Harry Eshkenazy’s novel project to bridge the gap between classical