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More than 133,000
refugees have entered Bulgaria since the start of hostilities in
Ukraine until the end of March 2022. Of them, as of March 31 this
year, more than 61,000 people remained in Bulgaria, according to the
data of the State Agency for Refugees in Bulgaria. This is the
largest wave of refugees in the country’s history, more than the
refugees from Syria and Afghanistan in all of 2015, when it was the
peak of the then migrant crisis. Almost the entire burden of
reception, accommodation, assistance and support for refugees from
Ukraine falls on non-governmental organizations and volunteers.
Project “For a home away from home – developing the capacity of
civic leaders to help and support refugees in Bulgaria” foresees a
training program that will build and increase the capacity of
representatives of civil organizations – alumni and experts of the
Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza” (BSoP) to provide
support to refugees and migrants; will establish partnerships and
create a network of trained people to work together, exchange ideas
and good practices in supporting migrants. It also includes measures
to inform and involve the entire BSoP alumni community in solving
the problem. End users will be refugees, migrants seeking asylum on
the territory of Bulgaria. Project
“For a home away from home – development of the capacity of civic
leaders to
help and support refugees in Bulgaria” is implemented by BSoP with
the
financial support provided by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
under the
Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria within the EEA Financial Mechanism.
Its main objective
is to find sustainable forms of support for refugees and to build
mechanisms to respond to refugee crises.