Over the past 15 years the sale of children from poor Roma communities in Bulgaria became almost routine.
With the help of smugglers, destitute parents sold their newborn babies in Greece, where laws on adoption are more liberal.
Only in 2015 Bourgas prosecutors have filed charges in 27 cases sold in Greece with 33 babies from 31 pregnant women. Women are paid between 3500 and 7000 Lev for a baby.
Faced fail judiciary, the director of the kindergarten in Kameno Maria Ivanova took the initiative with a large NGO "Balance" against the trade of babies. Ivanova directly to young Roma students, many of whom now wear bracelets, purses and stickers with five simple words: "I am not for sale".
