Progress4Smile joins AAS Service Learning Fair !!!
Progress4Smile Organization was delighted to be a part of probably the most exciting and creative event of the year - the service learning fair of the Anglo-American School of Sofia. We did a presentation to children aged 9-10 years old about the importance of educating one`s heart, not only the brain; about the importance of helping other children live better! After that we set our own place in the fair open space and we did really enjoy the interaction with the kids and the school teachers. We highly appreciate the opportunity to meet with other organizations and exchange ideas and contacts!
Culture & Art
The evolution of culture has been characterized by the progressive division of labour and differentiation of social function from a state of non-differentiation in pre-literate communities to higher and higher orders of differentiation. Today, contemporary culture can be defined as greater than the sum of various differentiated sub-cultures including the arts, crafts, economics, fashion, heritage, language, law, multiculturalism, politics, religion, science, and sports. Within the arts there has been a parallel development characterized by the progressive "individualization" of the artist from anonymity to celebrity.
In traditional societies, awe and mystery surround the created object into which the creator projects spirit and soul. In Japan, for example, reflecting an ancient tradition of animism, a sword, being a product of mental work, is regarded not merely as a material object, but as imbued with the author's living spirit. Furthermore, objects of worship are not limited to visible and concrete things. Even a word can have a spirit (Koisumi 1977). In the Occident, only vague hints of ancient animism remain in concepts such as "the moral rights" of creators.
The "numinosity" (Jung 1964) of artifacts among pre-literate peoples reflects an investment of what Carl Sagan calls "extra-somatic" knowledge, i.e. knowlege carried outside of the body (Sagan 1977). Such knowledge can, by analogy, be considered the social genetic which directs the evolution of human society. It is the knowledge passed from one generation to another. Today it is embodied in books, recordings, computer software, and other contemporary ways to transmit "know-how" to future generations.
School4Smiles Project
Progress4Smile Organization launched its new project called "School4Smiles" at the end of March. The organization won the grant from
Bulgarian Fund For Women The project tends to educate female teenagers from an orphanage in Assenovgrad. The educational program involves IT and learning English. The project also tends to develop girls` communicational skills and present better chances for them for employment in future. After the educational stage is completed, the girls will visit the municipality and the employment beaureau and the project will finish with a meeting of prospective employers. Good luck to all participants!
The project „Brush, mouse and objective”
In December 2005 we realized successfully the project „Brush, mouse and objective” – presentation of the classic arts through the new technologies. This project is a part of the bigger project „The art of the nonprofessional artists”. The idea and the major aim of the project is discovering unknown artist in the field of the visual arts, applied art, literature, cinema and ect and popularizing their work.
In 2001 starts the project New Technologies – in Aid of a Fight against Drugs.
It is financed with the help of YSSA (Youth and Sport State Agency) and it includes making of multimedia Drugs Encyclopedia. The disk comprise information expressed in a simple form about different kinds of drug substances, the way of using them, psychological and physical risk. It is organized a concert in Varna and an advertising campaign is carried out for dissemination of the disk.
In charge of the project: Maria Boteva & Lubomir Argirov
We begin 2000 with new initiative: the project Drug Addiction Prevention.
With Love & Sport without Drugs....The project is focused on collecting statistical information about young people attitude towards usage of drug substances. A questionnarie form is prepared and filled in by students from Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Plovdiv and Kyrdzhaly - age 11-19 years. The collected information is generalized and introduced with brochures and leaflets, spread mostly over bulgarian schools, as well as over different institutions, committed with drug prophylaxis and prevention.
A little book is published, consisting useful information about risk, misuse and drug addiction, growing’s up psychological and physical health damage.
In charge of the project: Ivo Chakarov & Anton Georgiev
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