“Youth development center-Mutual Aid” together with Professional secondary school “Ivan Hadjienov” pick up the idea to organize a campaign that raises awareness about harassment in Kazanlak’s schools !
By opening a safe space without harassment on the 10th of December 2007th in Professional secondary school “Ivan Hadjienov” ,we honored the signing of the chart of human rights.
Children from 9th and 10th grade in the school took active part in the campaign. They made posters, listened to lectures and watched films for domestic harassment and traffic of women.
This is a very up-to-date problem here considering the cases of harassment and aggression in Bulgarian schools.
A 14-year-old boy died after a fight in one of Razgrad’s schools and at another incident in Samokov a boy stabbed his classmate.
Every 4th woman in Bulgaria is a victim of domestic harassment and every 3rd person knows someone that is a victim of domestic violence. According to statistics 60% of boys that have witnessed this kind of behavior adopt it and 50% of girls become a victim of domestic harassment.
Signals for harassment in homes were 70 in 2001 and more then 3600 in 2007.
At the same time half the cases were not brought to court according to a statistic by the Social Ministry from the past month.
We appeal to all colleagues and to the media to join us and help young people accept the idea of tolerance towards others. Let us create a space without violence in every school in Kazanlak. Join us!!!