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On December 10th, Casa Ioana Association organized the 12th edition of its annual Christmas Soup Kitchen, an event that has evolved from a traditional meal distribution into a critical platform for social awareness. While providing hot meals, food parcels, and warm clothing to over 250 individuals experiencing homelessness or extreme poverty, this year’s mission carried an even deeper objective: proactive […]

Meet Our New Team Member: Adriana Zdrentu, Psychologist Adriana Zdrentu has joined the Casa Ioana team as the new psychologist. With over 7 years of experience in the social sector, she has primarily focused on supporting children from disadvantaged families together with their parents. Her professional journey includes five years working within the NGO sector, followed by two […]

The SOLACE-CEE Partnership was launched in October 2024.  It has been a whole year since Housing First Poland Foundation HFPF started its operations within this international partnership. This is what we achieved in this period. POLISH SOLACE-CEE HUB Long term intensive and integrated support in line with Housing First Values All SOLACE-CEE Partners aim to […]

Free medical tests for children aged 0 to 6 years from vulnerable families The morning of September 11, 2025 began with a children’s cry at the medical office of the MID Center Suhodolska, where we started conducting free medical tests for children aged 0 to 6 years from vulnerable families living in poor living conditions […]

In November, HESED launched a targeted food support initiative for people living in a situation of homelessness in the Fakulteta neighborhood. In the first phase, 30 children and 4 pregnant women received packages with basic food products tailored to their basic needs. The goal of the program is to ensure minimum food security for the […]

DEDO Foundation, together with the organisations in its network — All for family (VPR), Dorka Bags, n.o., and Dorka, n.o. — has opened a unique Integrated Health and Social Services Centre at the Polyclinic Sever in Košice. The centre connects medical and psychological care with social, legal, and employment counselling, as well as housing support […]

Sharing pathways to ending homelessness The European Housing First Partners Conference (EHFPC) is an initiative that brings together practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and people with lived experience to share knowledge and reflect on the implementation of the Housing First (HF) approach across Europe. The conference was organised by Pathways to Housing and Housing First Germany. The […]

Homelessness is a topic of long-standing importance, which today is even more acute on the agenda of European societies. In early October, Silvia Vasileva, Vice President of the Health and Social Development Foundation (HESED), was a guest on the program “Horizont do obed” on the Bulgarian National Radio with host Irina Nedeva. The main emphasis […]