In 2010, “Hope and Homes for Children”, together with the Bulgarian non-governmental organization “Equilibrium”, closed the first home for children from 0 to 3 years old in the city of Teteven and created the model for reforming this type of institution.

Hope and Homes for Children was founded by Mark Cook and his wife Carolyn in 1994 when they visited Bosnia and Herzegovina and witnessed the effects of war. They founded the organization with the aim of helping the institutions where children are raised destroyed by the war.