Field work
Since August 2023, we have been doing outreach to reduce the harms of drug use, conducting HIV prevention activities, making contact with people who might need help, and testing for HIV, hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and syphilis.
Projects
We hold seminars, trainings, discussions, exhibitions, and other events to raise awareness, bring communities together, and change attitudes in society towards people with addictions.
Analyses
Over the years, we have produced numerous studies and analyses in the field of addiction to help improve the effectiveness of policies that should serve the interests of Bulgaria’s citizens.
The Pink House
On 1 June 2019, the Center for Humane Policy took over the management of the only low-threshold centre for people with addictions, the Pink House. This is the place in Sofia where people in need can get support, be referred for treatment, be fed, bathed, shaved, and washed, and feel treated well.
The Pink House has functioned all these years thanks to the incredible help of donors.
Supporters of The Pink House
The Pink House is an institution in itself – an institution outside institutions. The official institutions in Bulgaria continue to fail to recognize the seriousness of the problem and to put the care of people with addictions permanently on their budget cards. A society is only as strong as the weakest in it. They are the ones The Pink House cares for.
Gergana Nedelcheva
M Naneva
I believe that The Pink House and the people in it, caring and cared for, do miracles! Sometimes, even small successes are miracles. I wish we had a chain, a whole network of Pink Houses nationwide, well funded by the government and supported by the community!
Polina Troyanova
The Pink House is the only place where people left behind by their families and the state can get human and professional support to cope with difficult situations arising from addictions, homelessness, and all the consequences that this entails. They only provide food, the possibility of basic hygiene, legal and psychological assistance, a friendly hand, and community.
Albena Varsano
Initiatives like The Pink House are some of the most meaningful things happening in Bulgaria and desperately need broad and widespread support.
Andrey Atanasov
The work that The Pink House does is of great importance both for improving the quality of life of an extremely vulnerable social group and for treating and reintegrating people from this group. Thanks to them, we are all changing the way we think and slowly (and thankfully, surely) becoming more responsible, more empathetic, more generous, and more socially engaged. In short, The Pink House makes us all better.
Marina Rupova
Contact us
Together we can make our world a better place.
Office
29, Graf Ignatiev Str., 1142 Sofia, Bulgaria
✉️ office@centerforhumanepolicy.org
📞 +359 899 916 839
The Pink House
109, Slivnitsa Blvd., 1233 Sofia, Bulgaria