Kindergarten "Yavor'' Gabrovo, Bulgaria For children here is paradise: sing, learn and play! Located in the picturesque town of Gabrovo, “Yavor” Kindergarten was founded in 1961. For more than half a century the pedagogical team aims to build universal values for future generations through education, culture, and creativity so that the survival of world. Every day 150 children, aged 2-7 years old, attend kindergarten, divided into six groups. The team’s efforts are focused on providing healthy and safe conditions for the upbringing and education of the children. Our entire process is subjected to our main goal: to help form the personalities of the children, so that they possess knowledge, skills, habits, self-esteem, adequate social behavior, and their own identity. The children in our kindergarten are well-prepared for school. All of this is achieved through the professional attitude of highly qualified teaching and non-teaching staff. The kindergarten has built a new type of relationship with the families so that they could share the overall responsibility for the upbringing of the children. We use various approaches when we work with the parents so that we can integrate them better into the kindergarten’s upbringing process.