/ world at this time information/ We went to the market in Dolni Bogrov, however “crammed our baggage” with unresolved native issues. Proper from the doorway, folks showered us with them.
Solely 15 km away. from the middle of Sofia and with over 1,200 inhabitants, Dolni Bogrov seems to be like a well-developed village, however solely at first look. There is no such thing as a pediatrician close by, no pharmacy, not even an ATM. There is no such thing as a one to make a number of easy selections to enhance public transport. The over 120-year-old faculty was closed within the first waves of “optimization” and academic “reforms”. There is no such thing as a organized transport for the kids to a different faculty within the “Kremikovtsi” space. Together with the collapsing faculty constructing, you possibly can see the city corridor, the primary ground of which has been privatized. What higher illustration of the 33-year right-wing administration of the Metropolitan Municipality!
A sort of instructional “migration” can be creating in Dolni Bogrov – native folks register with an handle in Sofia with the intention to enroll their kids in class, and fogeys from town make handle registrations within the village with the intention to use the Bogrov kindergarten, which creates stress with native folks.
“Nobody pays consideration to us, nobody respects us as Sofians,” mentioned Marieta Nikolova, chairperson of the native committee for cleansing the mattress of the Lesnovska river. One other drawback that has been sluggish to resolve, though the river has lately regained its character and introduced again recollections of the good flood of 2005.
Merchants from the standard Sunday market launched us to apparently small, however long-unsolved issues. Frequent energy outages threaten a part of the agricultural manufacturing, and just one transportable rest room serves the thousand human move. Nonetheless, the farmers market is alive and properly and an instance of a spot the place city and village ought to meet for the advantage of all.
In Dolni Bogrov, we talked to individuals who journey a whole lot of kilometers from throughout Bulgaria to market their merchandise in Sofia. We additionally met residents of Sofia who work in Sofia enterprises and even within the municipal sphere through the week, and on Sundays are behind the stall looking for extra revenue. Bogrov market is a colourful world – a mirrored image of the life we dwell and a crooked mirror for the world of the rulers.
That is how folks dwell on the outskirts of Sofia. We don’t divide town into heart and periphery, as a result of SOFIA IS FOR EVERYONE!
Thanks for the group and the welcome to Tsetska Kochkova, chairman of the “St. St. Cyril and Methodius-1927” within the village of Dolni Bogrov!
Images: Ludmil Dimitrov
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