Updated on 31 March 2020
On 13 March, Friday, the first day of the state of emergency in Bulgaria, we, BCause Foundation, initiated an active campaign under the motto “COVID-19 separated us physically but it also brought us closer socially than we’ve ever been”. In this extreme situation we carry on doing what we do best – connecting donors and causes and providing donor mechanisms. We provide companies with an easy option to respond to the crisis by also including their employees.
We started at https://www.platformata.bg/en/ - a website for online donations, created by BCause Foundation.
Together with #Forthegood Project we announced a campaign for meeting the urgent needs during the crisis COVID-19 in Bulgaria. Not only we are raising money, but we manage to use them immediately so as to cover urgent needs of the hospitals in Sofia and throughout the country for protection of the medics and preparation of the hospital wards to face the crisis: personal protective means and consumables, medical respiratory equipment, other related equipment and supplies for hospital wards.
In order to adequately meet urgent needs, we support regular two-fold communication and coordination with the National Emergency Headquarters along with directors of the biggest hospitals in Sofia.
Hundreds of people take part – donating materials, help, information, volunteering…
More than 1500 persons donated over 253 000 leva in favor of national and regional hospitals and NGOs, working for elderly people in the conditions of COVID-19 through 8 donation campaigns at platformata.bg
COMPANIES WHICH DONATED TO #FORTHEGOOD AGAINST COVID-19 IN BULGARIA
Ubisoft – French company for production and distribution of computer and video games- 20 000 leva
CheckoutX – Bulgarian start-up company- 10 000 leva
Chaos Group – Bulgarian software company - 200 000 лева
Dreamix.eu - software company - 4 125 leva
Zara - petrol company -72 960 leva
Anton Dushev - 10 000 leva
Karrol Knowledge Foundation- 10 000 leva
Bright Marketing Research – 5 000 leva
Companies, which made donations directly to BCause Foundation in a joint effort to combat the crisis:
Philip Morris Bulgaria- for the purchase of drugs and protective wear - 320 000 leva
Velev Invest ООD - 50 000 leva – In support of volunteer non-government organizations, helping people with disadvantages, socially isolated or the elderly through BCause Foundation
COMPANIES, WHICH ENCOURAGED THEIR EMPLOYEES TO DONATE:
CityBank Bulgaria – the employees donated 6 000 leva
Management Financial Group (MFG) turned to their employes, encouraging them to donate through a corporate webpage under the donation instrument platformata.bg
Chaos Group – created for their employees a corporate donation webpage under the donation instrument platformata.bg – the employees donated 23 560 leva
Еxperian – the employees donate and the company will double their donations.
VMware – the employees donate for the cause.
COMPANIES, WHICH ALLOCATE PERCENTAGE FROM THEIR PROFIT TO THE CAUSE:
TOTEM – donate 20% of the amount of each order
SKRIN -A second-hand shop – 10% of each online order
COMPANIES, WHICH DELIVERED PRO BONO SERVICES OR MATERIAL DONATIONS:
iCard encouraged their clients to donate through their application to the campaign. 100% of the money will be used for the needs of the campaign.
Remoterm OOD donated 8 protective helmets to 2 hospitals. 6 helmets were donated to the Children’s Recovery Room in Pirogov and 2 to the Sofia Pediatrics.
The companies Bulged и Prosign produce hundreds of protective helmets a day in order to donate them.
We will continue connecting donors, hospitals and volunteers. We will continue collecting donations for masks, protective wear and other consumables for the doctors, nurses and health-officers.
We can make it together! Thank you!
#Forthegood against COVID-19 in Bulgaria
