SHE campaign is carried out by Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW) in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Foundation - Sofia. 

Bulgarian Fund for Women is an independent organization, working on more resources available for establishment and strengthening of women's rights non-governmental organizations in Bulgaria, achieving real gender equality in all areas of social life and combating all forms of discrimination.  

Objectives: 

• To support the Bulgarian women's organizations working to raise gender awareness of society and recognize women's rights as human rights, strengthen their capacity and improve quality of services they provide, increase their knowledge and improve their skills for mobilizing local resources for their sustainable development; 

• To support alternative and radical women's initiatives; 

• To support independent monitoring of government's obligations and initiatives related to gender equality sector in Bulgaria; 

• To support networking between NGOs working on gender equality on national and regional level; 

• To promote a new vision for philanthropy as an instrument for social change; 

• To promote the civil society development in Bulgaria as a precondition for irreversibility of the democratic process. 

Strategies for achieving the objectives 

The Bulgarian Fund for Women: 

• fundraises funds from Bulgarian and foreign individuals, donors and business organizations through various initiatives; 

• supports financially NGOs projects aiming to combat all forms of violence against women; to promote women's economic independence and to reduce poverty and unemployment; to encourage women's more active participation in public and political life for their promotion in decision-making positions; to achieve equal rights and equal opportunities for marginalized groups of women and those with different sexual orientation, to promote women's access to ICT, etc.;  

• contributes to the increase of quality of services provided by trainers, consultants and facilitators who work with NGOs on gender equality; 

• participates actively in international networks of women's funds;  

• provides seed grants as well as development grants. 

For more information:www.bgfundforwomen.org 

Habitat for Humanity Sofia foundation is an affiliate of the international non-profit organization Habitat for Humanity International, whose mission is to offer low-income families construction and renovation, increasing their quality of life by providing decent and affordable housing. In partnership with several non-profit organizations, "Habitat for Humanity" works to find a solution for homelessness, in hopes that this issue will become socially and politically unacceptable. 

Because Habitat for Humanity wish not only to ease symptoms of distress, but invest in solutions to underlying problems, Habitat is not a charity program. In addition to monthly payments, which contribute to a revolving fund used to build new Habitat homes, future home-owners expend a few hundred hours of volunteer labour on their own and other’s homes. We call this "sweat equity".  

We select Habitat beneficiaries very carefully. Families must demonstratee need, inability to access traditional housing assistance, a willingness to provide a pre-determined number of hours on theirs as well as other Habitat homes and the ability to repay the interest-free loan over a certain number of years. Ethnic or religious belonging are not a criteria in the selection of the homeowners.  

Habitat for Humanity housing prices is based only on construction expenses and are kept low due to the wealth of volunteers who help build our homes. Habitat for Humanity Foundation is financed by family payments as well as donations from local individuals and institutions, private and public organizations, Habitat for Humanity International and partner organizations around the world.  

For more information: www.habitat-sofia.org.