By Kameliya Ivanova | Project Manager
Dear friends,
Since March we've got a lot of exciting news for you all!
First and foremost, our SUCCESS stories:
Pur 7th grade pupils Matei, Anatoli and Sevda have now successfully graduated primary school, applied for their chosen career-oriented courses and were accepted in various high schools in the country thanks to our improving mentorship program at the Association Rusalya.
These accomplishments just go to say that we are on the right track in integrating these wonderful children into society and all the continous care and investment in their future is paying off.
Extracurricular classes
As our mission and focus are to deveop children's natural talents, we continue to use some of our budget to pay for varous extracurricular classes. A lot of our kids have strong interest in the music and dance disciplines such as quitar, kaval (Bulgarian traditional folklore fute). We are also looking for a suitable folklore dance teacher.
Another big area of interest are the sports. We now take a big group of children to gorna Oryahovitsa, a town not too far from Rusalya, to attend taekwondo, acrobatics, football and possibly swimming starting in the autumn.
Visitors:
The last few months we had some lovely Korean visitors all the way from Canada who performed therapeutic accopunctur massage to our pupils as well as to some of the staff members who really benefited form a massage and a deep relaxation technique. Since it was the end of the exams period and the academix year, this couldn't have come in a better time.
Our close friends from Art Group Dupini visited us recently and conducted a very interesting and exciting Land Art and Ceramics Workshop at the school. Almost everyone managed to participate and produce a lovely peace of art.
Urgent need for repairs:
Unfortnately, we also have some bad news to share and a appeal for funding to help the urgent need for repairs of our dormitory Plumbing system. After the huge rainfall and storms in the spring season, we now discovered that clamps are needed at 8 locations, as many leaks have occured. This ultimately requires urgent pipe repairs.
Ongoing project on large Scale: New Dormitory Project
As previously shared with you over the past few reports, we continue to work on finding the funding to expand our facilities by building a second dormitory in order to accommodate between 45-60 new pupils step by step over the next 2 years as part of our strategic development plans.
We have been so blessed to receive support from our partners in the US who are looking to support us financially to make this dream come true and for this we thank them deeply! Only a year ago such conversations on expansion were but a mere hope and prayer while now we are actually seeing partners visiting personally to conduct formal meetings and making prompt decisions on building our second dormitory - it is all becoming very real and we hope that very soon we will be able to announce that construction is on the way.
Admittedly, we are still facing some bureaucratic challenges in the face of our local authorities but we have the patience and will pursue obtaining all building permits in timely fashion to enable the commencement of this project as soon as practically possible.
Thank you all for believing in us and keeping us going!
Any questions, please reach out to us via our contact form on www.rusalya.org
By Kami Ivanova | Project Manager
By Kami Ivanova | Project Manager
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