"INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICE BULGARIA" (ISS) was established as an independent non-profit organization in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, in November 2002, with the support of the International Social Service Headquarters, based in Geneva, Switzerland. For eight years, the ISS is acting in the field of the child rights and child protection, providing new alternative social services for children and families, proposing new services for the integration of care leavers. The ISS has realized 15 major projects across Bulgaria, the first one being the "Care Leavers Integration Program" (CLIP).

     Being part of the Social Service network, ISS-Bulgaria deals with inter-country cases regarding children, families and other vulnerable groups of people that live in different countries. ISS-Bulgaria is trying to find individual solutions by means of cooperation and joint working with the State, the municipalities and the child protection bodies on national, regional and local level as well as with the ISS network including Branches, Affiliated Bureaus and Correspondents in more than 160 states all over the world.