What is Zarika Courses? Zarika Courses is an online learning platform dedicated to providing free, high-quality educational resources on essential life skills and professional development. Our goal is to empower individuals with practical knowledge and tools to create positive change in their communities and beyond. One of our flagship courses, Be the Change, focuses on social entrepreneurship, equipping youth workers and young people with the skills to develop impactful projects ...

What is “Be the Change”? Be the Change is an innovative online course consisting of 9 modules designed to equip youth workers with the knowledge and tools to introduce social entrepreneurship to young people in an engaging and interactive way. Developed within the international project Be the Change, this course provides ready-to-use exercises and practical knowledge to inspire the next generation of changemakers for free. The course was created as ...

Our Publishing Initiative Zarika Publishing is our newest project and a long-time dream coming to life — a publishing initiative within Zarika Association dedicated to creativity, learning, and social impact. We believe in the power of words to inspire, connect, and transform communities. Through Zarika Publishing, we aim to support emerging voices, develop innovative educational content, and create space for meaningful storytelling. What we do: Author SupportWe support emerging authors ...

Oscar Wilde once famously said, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Then, Ralph Waldo Emerson added, “Be yourself, even when your voice shakes, even when your truth feels inconvenient, because a life built on pretending will always feel like a house you can’t fully rest in.” And then, apparently, “be yourself” even became a verb (Or so does the Shift Your Perspective pin claim on Pinterest) meaning, “Just be who …

A 2300-year-old philosophy for the age of doomscrolling How is it that you can feel everything and nothing at the same time? The alarm goes off – the first of many that you had set up not to be late for work. You open your eyes and hit snooze for the first couple, then the sensitive period of “almost-running-late” arrives, and you finally decide to wake up. You don’t get …

On March 21st, Bansko became the setting for something more than a workshop. It became a space where a small group of young social entrepreneurs came together to explore what it truly means to lead together. The Collective Leadership Retreat, organized by Zarika, brought together seven participants—some of them among the winners from the latest edition of Innovation Station, alongside members of the Better Community Club. What they shared was …

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much so as to be understood” – George Orwell, 1984 We may have defined love and its significance last month, but does that guarantee us success in expressing it towards others? In 1992, a marriage counselor and Baptist minister, Gary Chapman, introduced a theory that would become one of the most commonly discussed ideas in modern relationship psychology. In his book, …

A celebration of youth-driven innovation, collaboration, and social impact For the sixth consecutive year, the Better Community Club at the American University in Bulgaria brought together purpose-driven young people for one of the most inspiring social entrepreneurship events in the country: Innovation Station vol.6: The Prophecy of Grain and Gold. This annual ideathon has become more than just a competition. It is a living ecosystem of collaboration where 12 teams …