Sofia-Balkan Interact Club at the Sofia Mathematical High School (SMG)

Sofia-Balkan Interact Club at the Sofia Mathematical Gymnasium is a club with a thirteen-year history. In continuation of these years, projects were built that have become a tradition and those that, although they were done only once, contributed not only to the unity of the club, but also to the surrounding people who participated in it. Our aim is to achieve continuity both between students with different interests and between students and the rest of society and to learn responsibility and social engagement.

Our club currently has about 90 members, some of whom are seniors this year. Meetings this term are held on Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. at school.

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1. “Buy and give” and “Let’s remember them” go in the “traditional” column

This project aims to show disadvantaged people living in sparsely populated villages in Bulgaria that they are not forgotten, hence its name. The first stage of the project is called “Buy and donate”. Through it, club members are connected to a large chain of grocery stores where they can go to collect a sufficient amount of donations in the form of essential food items. The second part – “Let’s remember them” is the most emotional, because then the young people go to donate the products. By doing this, they talk to people, see first-hand their living conditions, touch typical Bulgarian hospitality and diversify their daily life. This project leaves an impression on the participants, because in this way the young people enrich their view of the surrounding world, touching an alternative world and warm the elderly people from the depopulating village.

2. “Final Destination”

is another annual project of the club, which consists in creating an invented route around Sofia, through which the participants can pass, solving riddles that lead to the next destination, while completing challenges at the destinations themselves. The goal is to be the fastest to reach the final destination first and win a prize. This is one of the fresh projects of the club which brings a lot of fun to the school atmosphere, the organizing team and everyone involved.

3. “The Belot Tournament”

is a long-term social project that the club organizes at the beginning of the school year. Its purpose is not only to “warm up” the members for the upcoming projects, but also to show how much fun it is to be part of the Interact club and to get more people interested in getting involved.

4. “Christmas Bazaar”

is a project that unites the club and allows every year the collected funds to help a given cause by purchasing necessary donations for it. This year we helped the “Hope for Children” foundation, bought diapers, food and strollers for the babies and visited them.

5. “Day without backpacks and normal clothes for school 2022”

is a project that brings the club together