On 22 September – Bulgaria’s Independence Day, more than 200 children and their parents took part in the discovery-tour Time Machine, under the slogan Safe on the Street, Safe Online . The event was in the framework of various activities of many Bulgarian NGOs on the occasion of the national holiday.
The family orientation game, which was co-organized by Association Parents and the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre operated by ARC Fund, consisted in map reading and locating of five given downtown landmarks. Upon arrival at a landmark, the participants received a card, which pictured the way the building of interest looked in the old times. When children-parents teams gathered all five cards, they had them bound together in a nice keepsake album. Children also received as prizes a magic folding cube and a game-book, featuring the online child defender character Flashboy, as well as a poster with the main rules of internet safety and stickers with the web-address of the Internet Hotline.
Parents were given a Are you ready to talk to your children about Internet brochure, and those who had a first-grader this year also received a Welcome to School, Parents booklet.
The initiative took place as a part of the European Mobility Week, which culminated in closing of traffic in the center of Sofia on 22 September and having a large bicycle parade, organized by Bike-Evolution Association, under the patronage of the mayor of Sofia, Mrs. Yordanka Fandakova.
