We are sharing this interview in Bulgarian with Georgi Dimitrov, author of "Да докоснеш мечтата" (Touching the Dream) and founder of the dance group "Петлите" (The Roosters), which discusses the effect of institutionalization on children in residential homes. Georgi shares details of his individual path of living in an institution and the salvation he found in music as well as in his second family. He provides painful examples of the negative effects that institutions have on children growing up in them and on the caregivers working in them, examples of bullying, sexual exploatation and general abuse. Other examples include the negative reasons why some parents seek a new connection with their abandoned children after leaving the institution - to exploit them financially or in other manners. Georgi also notes how the future of some of the children beyond the institution is undermined from an early stage. Georgi Dimitrov concludes on a positive note, emphasizing the importance of supporting children without parental care so that they can believe in themselves despite the circumstances - "Every child from a residential home will succeed, if there is a person next to him or her."
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