Concordia Foundation, Bulgaria

In the ninth episode of the Daphne-CHILD Grantee Spotlight Series, Maria Yanakieva and Desislava Petkova from Concordia Bulgaria Foundation discuss their project My Safety Guide – an initiative transforming child protection education through visual, image-based materials co-created with children who face literacy barriers.

The project reveals powerful insights about how marginalised children understand safety differently, often viewing protection as something they must do themselves rather than something adults provide. By making the process playful and visual rather than text-based, Concordia creates materials that work across language barriers, literacy levels, and even undiagnosed intellectual disabilities – offering a model that could benefit refugee children, ethnic minorities, and children with learning difficulties across Concordia's international network.

This podcast is part of a series aiming to showcase the vital and innovative work of our grantees in the Daphne-CHILD programme as they combat violence against children across Europe.