Description of organisation

Karin Dom is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by hereditary diplomat and philanthropist Ivan Stancioff. 22 years after its establishment Karin Dom is an organization with a leading role in providing professional services for children with special needs and their families. Over the years, Karin Dom develops and grows as a therapeutic center for children with special needs, which employs highly qualified specialists: physiotherapists, rehabilitators, speech therapists, psychologists, special teachers, social workers.
The main activities are realized by: Center for providing services for children with special needs and their families (for children aged 3-8), Center for Early Intervention (for children aged 0-3) and by a Resource and training center (qualified training for organizations and professionals). Karin Dom annually supports over 300 children and families and trains over 1200 specialists.
Vision:Karin dom is committed to seeing a better quality of life and equal opportunities for people with disabilities in Bulgaria.
Mission: To support the social inclusion of children with special needs and their families through professional services, advocacy, and raising public awareness.

Objectives
To provide high quality services to children with special needs and their families in order to prevent children from being abandoned in institutions and support the successful social integration of children and their families.
To disseminate our good practices by providing trainings and consultations to parents and professionals working with children with special needs from Bulgaria, while adhering to international standards.
Work for advocacy and policy changes for children at local, regional and state level.
Promoting volunteerism and social engagement between the young people in the country.
Management
The governing body is a Management Board with Honorary Member Mr. Ivan Stancioff.

As an NGO, Karin dom is financed mainly by donations, projects and programs, with national delegated activities and municipal delegated activities. Much part of our funding comes from events, initiatives and campaign we organize and implement throughout the year. We have regular, annual campaigns that we rely on for collecting money for some of our services.
Most important of them are described below. Each of them cannot be realized without our volunteers who play a key and a leading role in designing, organizing and implementing the idea.
1. Martenitsa campaign from January to March each year - each year we support one of our services with the money collected
2. Charity festival "Smile Karin dom" - http://smile.karindom.org/ - preparations starts from April. Implementation is in September.
3. Christmas campaign - from October to December - https://karindom.org/en/koledna-kampaniya-2018/

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Educational difficulties
• Social obstacles