24 Vassil Aprilov str.
1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
Office tel/fax:003592 9441604
Mobile: 00359 888511519
E:mail:
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WORK BACKGROUND:
1999 – to present: President of the Board of charity foundations Tabitha
Bulgaria and Tabitha 2000,
involved in cares for children in need in social institutions
and at risk (food, clothes, shoes, medicines, bed linen, toys ;
managing projects for improving living
conditions in orphanages by renovations, repairs, furnishing
painting;
organizing educational programs for less fortunate children
in computer literacy and English language, support for
school subjects like mathematics, science and literature;
vocational training in farming, cooking and bartending, beautician and massages and sewing for young people due to leave theorphanages because of age;
supporting children from risk families;
helping homes and hospices for old people;
arranging summer camps for Dutch, German and English
volunteers to orphanages in Bulgaria;
distributing humanitarian aid from abroadto social institutions
writing and presenting strict reports to donors and supporters;
“Baba Program” – providing retired “grannies” to help children in orphanages as their grandmothers.
Orphanages we work with at present: St. Sofia (60 children, age 0-3),Doganovo (73 children, age 6-19), Razliv (60 children, age 7-19), Roman (134 children, age 7- 21, half of them with mental disabilities), Mezdra (70 children with heavy mental and physical disabilities, age 5-19), Vratza (90 children, age 7-19), Dren (50 children, age 3-7), Gorski Senovets (60 children with heavy mental and physical disabilities, age 4-18) and few others.
1998 - 2007lecturer in Business Communications at SofiaUniversity
“St.Kl. Ochridski”, Faculty of Economics
1993 – 2006 free lance PR consultant
1987 - 1989special correspondent to Bulgarian newspapers and magazines from France
1982 – 1997 lecturer in English language at SofiaUniversity “St.K.
Ochridski” Faculty of Classical and Modern Languages
1979 – 1993 reporter at the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA)
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
1991 - 1993 PR at NewBulgarianUniversity(specializing inBusiness communications);
1975 – 1978 English Philology at Sofia University, Faculty of Classic and modern languages - Master Degree, second major in Bulgarian Philology and pedagogic
1973-1975 English Literature and Culture atTripoliUniversity (Libya) -Bachelor degree
1971-1973 British Collage – “New Tripoli Collage”
Courses and specializations:
1997 – 1999 Specialization in sales and marketing PR and Communications, Organized by CBMC International in Budapest (Hungary)
August 1993Specialization on creative methods in foreign language teaching at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
1991 Sugestopedia and alternative methods in teaching foreign languages at the Institute for creative methods –with a professor from Düsseldorf Institute on Creative Methods
1982 – 1983 Specialization in translation
SKILLS
English language – excellent written and spoken knowledge
French Language - very good level
Computer literacy
Driving licence - clean
Family statute: married to Professor Ivan Soskov, from SofiaUniversity, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics’, with two boys