Wednesday, March 30, 2011

BULGARIA - The interest to host the Japanese victims

All offers of help pouring in from around the world, there may be one that could go unnoticed in Japan. Yet it is sincere, though somewhat interested. There are voices in Bulgaria on the possibility - yet very virtual - host on national soil a large number of Japanese who wish to leave their devastated region.

This proposal was formulated for the first time Tuesday, March 15 broadcast on national radio by the sociologist Iskra Dandolova da Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. "Researchers and representatives of Bulgarian NGOs propose that our country welcomes people affected by the disaster in Japan," she said, specifying that a local initiative committee would take charge of this project in cooperation with Japanese authorities.

But it is on that Facebook seems to have developed this initiative. The same day, a "cause" in the name was born on explicit social networks: "That Bulgaria reach out to Japan and welcomes a million refugees." The organizers suggest that the Bulgarian authorities to take two emergency measures: 1) maximum ease of obtaining residence papers for those involved, 2) identify and locate families, regions, localities might welcome them.

"The Japanese people are known for their proverbial attachment to work and perseverance. They will not be a burden for us, as some may think. "Speaking in the forums, the organizers of this idea go even further by suggesting that the Bulgarian government allocates agricultural land for tsunami survivors and nuclear disaster.

"Like this, our agriculture will have a chance to get out of the coma. Not to mention the depopulation of the countryside, "they argue. This idea has found some echo in the popular press. The daily 24 Tchassa has devoted its editorial of 16 March." There will always be someone to say that this initiative is hypocritical.

But really it's our only way to show our solidarity with the Japanese. Bulgaria is one of the few European countries where wasteland waiting for a workforce skilled and enthusiastic, "the newspaper admits however that it is unlikely that the Japanese are rushing to work in Bulgaria. "Until now, our country is mainly a destination for retirees nature lovers and yogurt," says 24 Tchassa.'s new journal, also found the testimony of the family of Leo and Satomi Takada A couple of sixty years who makes his home for ten years in the small village of Karavelovo, the Balkans Bulgaria.

Since the inception of this idea, two localities have responded to the call to host disaster Japanese Staliska Mahala, a small village near Lom (northwest) and the town of Razgrad (northeast). In the latter, it is a local association, the Friends of Japan, is proposing to host Homestay potential "environmental refugees" in the country of the Rising Sun.

March 17, this information has made the front page of the daily Standart who headlined on Japan "wraps up". The daily Trud gives him a long speech to the mayor of Staliska Mahala Alexander Milanov. The small village of aedile believes that this measure will be especially beneficial to Bulgaria, focusing also on his love of work and discipline of Japanese who can serve as "example" to the Bulgarians.

It is a point on which all commentators agree fall: "Can not wait for the Japanese come to us out of trouble," they said in substance, as if Bulgaria had been the victim herself as a cataclysm. "Let us face it, we grow secretly hoping to have finally found people who can give us the right path and teach us how to rebuild our country," concludes the daily 24 Tchassa.

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