Why these two.

We do not open a project because a subject matters. We open one when the answer has already been written down somewhere — and is not reaching the person looking for it.

• bulgayria.orgexternal site · 2026
• ukraine.bgexternal site · 2026

bulgayria.org

A reference site, in Bulgarian, on what the law and the health system give LGBTI people in Bulgaria — and what they do not. What the procedure is, who runs it, and where each statement came from.

The gap is not an absence of information. The answers exist: in a statute, a Strasbourg judgment, a clinical guideline, a European report full of tables. They sit in eight documents in four languages, some of them superseded, and none written for a person who wants to know what is waiting at the counter.

What bulgayria.org does not do.

• Not a news outlet. It covers no events and comments on no statements.
• No campaigns, no gatherings.
• No individual legal or medical advice. It says what the procedure is; whether it is yours is for someone qualified to say.
• Not a community. No forum, no profiles, no personal stories.
• No registration, and no memory of who read what.

ukraine.bg

A practical reference for people holding temporary protection in Bulgaria: which document they need, which institution issues it, within what deadline, and what happens if the deadline passes.

Here too the information exists. It is split between the State Agency for Refugees, the health fund, the Employment Agency and several Council of Ministers decrees; it moves whenever renewal deadlines move; and it is rarely in the language the reader reads. So lawfully resident people fail at an administrative step rather than on a legal ground. UNHCR names the same obstacles: language, missing information, administrative process.

The not-knowing is measurable on the state’s side as well. The Employment Agency has stated that it holds no figure for how many temporary protection holders worked in 2025; it counts only those it placed itself — 315 that year. That is not an employment rate. Access to work is not restricted: the card is enough, and no work permit is required.

What ukraine.bg does not do.

• It is not an office. It issues no documents and files no applications for anyone.
• It takes no cases and collects no personal data.
• It is not a board for housing, jobs or donations.
• It does not translate official documents or certify translations.
• It does not guess. The next renewal round in Bulgaria is for the Council of Ministers and the State Agency for Refugees to set; until they do, there is no date here.

Why the two sites do not link.

There is no link from bulgayria.org to ukraine.bg, or the other way. That is not an oversight.

The audiences have nothing in common. Someone checking how a card is renewed has no reason to land on a site about LGBTI rights; someone reading about LGBTI rights may be on a device that is not only theirs. A link makes an assumption about the reader without asking, and the risk of it is carried by them, not by us.

So the full list sits here, on the foundation’s own page. A registrar, a donor or a journalist has every reason to see everything we keep. A reader who came for a document has no reason to pay for that curiosity.

If there is ever a third project, it will not link to the others either. It will appear here.