site.btaChair of Parliamentary Committee on Direct Citizen Participation Donates 15 Computers to Vinogradovka Lyceum in Bolhrad Region

GERB MP and Chair parliamentary Committee on Direct Participation of Citizens, Citizens’ Complaints and Interaction with Civil Society, Rositsa Kirova, donated 15 computers as well as educational and fiction literature in Bulgarian to the Vinogradovka Lyceum in the Bolhrad Region. Kirova is on an official visit to Vinogradovka on the occasion of National Awakeners' Day.

There are 140 students of Bulgarian origin enrolled at the Lyceum, which also hosts a Bulgarian Sunday School affiliated with the Bulgarian Society in Odesa. The school is funded under Bulgaria’s national programme Native Language and Culture Abroad of the Ministry of Education and Science.

“Together with the civic movement Buditel [Awakener], I am presenting a donation to the school - 10 computer sets and 5 spare computers for the educational needs of the Bulgarian children in the village. I hope you will use them to equip a computer classroom. I am also delivering educational and fiction literature,” Kirova said in her address at the Lyceum.

She also announced plans to establish closer ties between the Lyceum and the Buditel movement: “We will organize an exchange, so that your students can visit Bulgaria and meet their Bulgarian peers,” Kirova said.

Vinogradovka (formerly known as Chumlekioy) is a Bulgarian village in the Bolhrad Region. It was founded in 1830 by Bulgarian settlers from the Bulgaria’s village of Botevo, Yambol Region. According to the local authorities, the village has 1,240 residents, 95% of whom are of Bulgarian origin.