Bulgarian Mothers' Movement is hosting its annual Easter charity bazaar in order to raise funds for the construction of a transition home in Bozhourishte, near Sofia. Sold at the bazaar will be decorations, crafts, hand-made children's clothing and gift items.

The transition home is a project of Zashtiteno Zhilishte Zaedo (Protected Home Together), which aims to construct a place where youth who have grown up without such guidance will receive training in a trade, in social niceties and in how to adapt to society after having lived in a children's social care home until age 18.

Bozhourishte municipality has already granted Zashtiteno Zhilishte Zaedo land on which to build the house in the village of Gourmazovo.

The bazaar will occur at the following locations around the country:

Bourgas: Troikata Square, Vuzrazhdane borough, April 18 to 20, 10am to 7pm
Gorna Oryahovitsa: central square, April 18 and 19
Pazardjik: Konstantin Velichkov Square /Tortata/, April 18 and 19, from 10am
Sofia: City Center Sofia and the square at Sveta Nedelya Church, April 19 and 20, 10am to 6pm

For more information, visit dbm.bg-mamma.com and www.podslon.org.

In a similar vein, Chovek 5 Foundation will be holding a spring bazaar on Saturday April 19, the day before Palm Sunday, to raise money for children at Nikola Dramaliev Special School in Samokov and at Dobro Surtse (Good Heart) Day Home for Children with Disabilities in Pernik.

The bazaar will be held at 6 Slavyanska Str in Sofia from 1.30pm to 3pm, in the Slavyansko Drouzhestvo (Славянско дружество/Slavic Friendship) building. All the items at the bazaar have been made by the children during their ceramics and handicraft classes at the two institutions. Where applicable, they were sewn at the new sewing workshop in Samokov.

Some of the 65 children from the Nikola Dramaliev school and the 30 children from Dobro Surtse themselves will be helping out at the bazaar.

At 1pm on the 19th, the singer Toni Hristova will give a short concert of music by Verdi and Saint-Saëns for the children and all who would like to support them.