28 A "Petko Karavelov" street
Plovdiv
Bulgaria
- Youth and education
NAVA’s main purpose is to serve as a mediator between NGOs and people willing to volunteer. National Alliance for volunteer action has the following main goals:
• To create, maintain, and support the administration of comprehensive methodology for volunteers management.
• To create, update and maintain effective system for monitoring the public confidence and necessities of Bulgarian society for volunteer issues. To identify fields of business and alternatives to volunteer.
• To be an active mediator between organizations/institutions working with volunteers and the people willing to be volunteers.
• To create, endorse and distribute positive models of coordination between children in need (children with communication deficits) and their social environment.
• To enrich and enlarge the youth’s knowledge of skills to volunteer, problem solving related with communications arisen at child age.
• To assist and support for the legality of volunteerism in Bulgaria
In 2004 NAVA was awarded by the District Governor for its entire contribution in the civil society development in the whole region, as well as was honored by international jury with award for Best project of the 2006 Year.
In 2005 NAVA, in partnership with other Bulgarian NGO’s has created and managed the most impressive Complex for social services for children and families support. Some of the following services have been provided since its functioning: “Primary prevention”, “Deinstitutionalization”, “Supportive programs for children with disabilities”, “Specialized support”,” Mother and a child”,” Center for street children support” and etc.
In 2007 the National Alliance for volunteer action created and promoted Regional resource center for social services for children and families” located in Plovdiv, that ensure support to all Community-support centers in the relevant Municipalities ,develop the social services’ methodology, programs for individual and group work with clients, policies and standards for provision of social services to clients, as well as permanent supervison and evaluation of local teams , working with children and families in the Municipalities.
In 2009 NAVA expanded its National Network to 24 Regional and Local Volunteer Centers at the territory of the country, that are hosted by partner organizations. That appears to be the largest National Volunteer Network in Bulgaria as a whole. Each Volunteer Center, as well as NAVA, gained long-term experience in the development and management of projects, directed to young people and children.
We believe that Network cooperation is the most successful way for all NGO's to develop their strategies and ideas better. Exchanging of experience, sharing difficulties and successes, team working, and elaborating of common projetcs and initiatives affords organizations to "survive" in the complicated financial and social crisis. NAVA may contribute to the National Network's development through provision of experts in different spheres of the community-life, volunteers aged 15-75,involvement in projects of the organization and involvement in trainings, provided by the National Training Center of NAVA.
“National Alliance for volunteer action” Foundation has been working with volunteers at the territory of the whole country for more than 10 years. Volunteers’ labor appears as one of the most active form of civil participation. We are permanently searching for new opportunities and forms of gratuitous labor giving for the development of civil communities. We truly believe that joining ALF Network will strengthen our capacity develop and participate in programs on international level, and gain experience and new ideas from the other members of ALF. The National coordinator of ALF for Bulgaria is a member of our National Volunteer Network, so we perfectly know all young people working for the "International Initiatives for cooperation" Association.