Sofia, March 17, 2022
For a third consecutive year, the State Agency for Child Protection (SACP) presented its annual "Ambassador of Good" awards. After a very difficult choice and dozens of stories submitted to the SACP, the seventeen ambassadors of good for 2021 were identified. They are all people and organizations that have done good and helped a child/children in need, extended a hand and even risked their own lives to make a child and his family believe that goodness exists again. It is a great honor for BFPA that the Executive Director of the Association, Dr. Radosveta Stamenkova, is among the 17 winners. The prize - Crystal Heart - was presented to her by Associate Professor Mihail Okoliyski from the Bulgarian WHO office.
Here are some more of the Ambassadors of Good for 2021 of the SACP:
The children from the volunteer club "Transmittable Good" at the Secondary School "Prof. Nikola Marinov”, Targovishte; For the Good Foundation, which organized a campaign and managed to provide scholarships for the children of the heroes from the front line - medics and teachers who lost the battle with Covid; The founder of the Bulgarian team of athletes with Down syndrome Slav Petkov. He has been working hard for years for the cause of children with special educational needs. Slav Petkov's heroes brought to Bulgaria three silver medals from the World Championship in Italy in 2021; Irina Ilieva, health mediator in the village of Ivanski, Shumen municipality. Her priority is maternal health and children in early childhood; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Doncho Donchev - Dr. Donchev is an otorhinolaryngology specialist at the Military Medical Academy - one of the most beloved pediatricians. He has helped hundreds of children to regain their hearing; The firefighters from Blagoevgrad. Risking their lives, in an extremely complicated situation, they saved the lives of twins who are only 38 days old and 6 other children; The talent from the "Voice of Bulgaria" Georgi Kostadinov who on June 1 – Children’s Day, while working in his taxi, saved a child in a serious condition with his quick reaction; the Bulgarian Red Cross; the Lazar Radkov Foundation for their campaign "Caps for the Future"; journalist Ani Salic and others.
Key representatives of the governmental institutions, and Parliament, civil society activists as well as children - SACP volunteers, took part in the Ambassador of Goodness 2021 ceremony.
