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Beautiful Bulgaria project begins

Wednesday, Feb 04, 2009

During a special ceremony, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev together with Labour and Social Policy Minister Emiliya Maslarova lunched 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.

Source: Sofia Echo