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The project aims to provide support to children and families from vulnerable groups living in three districts of Sofia Municipality, with a high concentration of Roma population-"Filipovtsi" in Lyulin, Fakulteta distr. in Kr.polyana, and "Hr. Botev" distr. in Slatina regions, to improve access to health care, develop parenting skills, improve the family environment, increase school readiness for children, and inclusion in the education system, thus contributing to reducing transmitting of intergenerational poverty. It is planned to expand the services provided by already functioning centers in the residential areas "Filipovtsi" and "Fakulteta" and create a new hub, providing functionally related services for education and care at an early age, for children not included in early education in "Hr.Botev". The specific objectives of the project are the creation of a new center/complex of services (hub), providing functionally related services for education and care in early age for the children from the target groups and their parents in Hristo Botev district, Slatina region. Expanding the services and ensuring sustainability in support of early childhood development and improving access to early education, provided by already functioning centers - in "Filipovtsi" residential area in "Lyulin" region and in Fakulteta district in "Krasna polyana" region. Involvement and activation of families in the three communities to provide quality education and care in early childhood through numerous successive interventions, formation of parenting skills, health care, empowering parents to improve access to services (social, health, educational), improving social and life skills, improving nutrition, and supporting children''s education. Exchange of experience and improvement of bilateral relations and ensuring transparency and publicity of the project activities and popularizing the contribution FM of the EEA and the donor countries.