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Beautiful Bulgaria project begins

Tue, Feb 03 2009 16:41 CET bySvetlana Guineva 543 Views 4 Comments
During a special ceremony, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev together with Labour and Social Policy Minister Emiliya Maslarova launched the Beautiful Bulgaria project for 2009, Focus news agency reported on February 3 2009.

The program has 11 private sector contracts - five projects in the tourism, manufacturing and crafts and six projects that aim at renovating and preserving buildings, privately owned, with cultural and historic significance.

During 2009, a total of 241 sites will be re-touched and beautified with an allotted budget of about 45 million leva.

Beautiful Bulgaria project is part of the Labour Ministry's master-plan to tackle rising unemployment rates. The idea is to pull out workers of the construction business and secure jobs of some 6400 people.

More than 4000 unemployed people would be offered to acquire new skills and find new positions. The plan also supports the small and middle construction companies and makes the natural attractions of a lot of municipalities better displayed for attracting tourists.

During the ceremony, Maslarova said that using the Beautiful Bulgaria concept, more than 100 day care centres and kindergartens have been renovated. Until now, some 18000 jobless people have participated in the project, while 12000 others have received new training and skills, according to Maslarova as quoted by Focus.


 

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Anonymous Crispus Fri, Feb 06 2009 09:27 CET
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Do as NikNik suggest and get involved locally in cleaning up the waste and educating people not to litter. Better to act than complain.

Anonymous NikNik Thu, Feb 05 2009 20:57 CET
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Agree with NDB above totally.
We are trying to teach the kids at our football club that it is not acceptable to litter anywhere you like by encouraging them to pick up rubbish before every training session.
At first they had very quizzical looks on their little faces, but keen to please us they joined in.
It is something so easy to start in the schools where the future of Bulgaria are learning new skills and taking care of their beautiful country should be encouraged from now on.
I so hope that someone will listen and do something soon.

Anonymous Ann Thu, Feb 05 2009 20:56 CET
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BRAVO!! Well said.

Anonymous Norman D Beeches. Wed, Feb 04 2009 17:01 CET
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The idea of a 'beautiful Bulgaria' project has to be some sort of joke.
OK, you can throw 45 million leva at 241 sites, and for those who visit those sites, i'm sure it may be wonderful.

But what happens when they drive from one site to another? Like everyone else, they will be treated to the sight of fields covered in plastic bags, bottles and every other kind of rubbish you can think of. If they are lucky, along with bags or piles of household waste, they may pass the carcass of a rotting animal, or maybe even a thracian tomb covered with hundreds of disposable nappies.

And what better for those who choose to walk in the hills? Yes, they may find an idyllic, remote spot, with views to take your breath away, but there, in the middle of nowhere, someone has decided that this is the ideal place to dump building rubble, along with a few battered car body remains and, of course, the usual household rubbish, and mandatory plastic bag hanging from everything more than 5cm above the ground for hectares around.

If anyone wants to start talking about changing this most beautiful of countries from the aesthetic and ecological disaster: the rubbish dump of Europe, which it is at the moment, into anything that is even remotely better, then the average, rank and file Bulgarian citizen has to learn to respect their country, and the natural beauty with which they have been blessed.

I imagine that there is little hope of changing existing attitudes, but from tomorrow, it should be made a priority in schools throughout Bulgaria, that children should be taught to understand that LITTER IS BAD, and that those spreading litter are little more than ecological criminals.

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