Veska Uzunova, President Union of Pensioners Slivo Pole Region
Emiliya Velikova, University of Ruse and DANET e.V.
Abstract: “The International Day of Older People” is 1st October. It was celebrated 7 October 2017 in the frame of the project “Bread Connects”, action “Bread-Baking-Week Along the Danube” and action “Give a Sign of Friendship Along the Danube” in the village Stambolovo. The main organizers of this event were Mr. Valentin Atanasov, the Mayor of Slivo Pole Region and Mrs. Veska Uzunova, the President of the 19 pensioners clubs of the Slivo Pole Region. The participants were over 350 persons.
“The International Day of Older People” (1 October) was celebrated by the clubs of pensioners in Slivo Pole Municipality on October 3 in the village of Stambolovo.
The president of the Union of pensioners of Slivo Pole Region (19 clubs in 11 villages) Mrs. Veska Uzunova presented the history of this day and the results of many Danube pensioners organizations which had worked on the project “Bread Connects”, action “Bread-Baking-Week Along the Danube” and action “Give a Sign of Friendship Along the Danube”. She also made a report of the results of all 19 clubs which had taken part in a competition of bread and bread products, concert folk songs and dances related to bread.
Mrs. Uzunova also presented posters with the results of all international projects with coordinator Mrs. Carmen Stadelhofer, President of ILUE e.V. and DANET e.V. and Assoc. Prof. Emiliya Velikova, University of Ruse.
The Mayor of Slivo Pole Region Mr. Valntin Atanasov promised to give financial support for a Traveling Exhibition of the posters to every village of the Region.
The mayor Mr. Valntin Atanasov handed the medal of the Municipality to Mrs. Veska Uzunova for her outstanding active work with the pension organizations for their participation in 13 activities in the international projects of the Rousse University coordinated by Mrs. Carmen Stadelhofer. V. Uzunova was also awarded the Mother and Baby icon. Many presents were handed over by the secretaries of Mrs. Uzunova’s clubs and the mayors’ secretaries.
The mayor pledged to create a 20th club for the pensioners from the village of Stambolovo to allocate funds for the club’s activities. He handed congratulations letter of all participants.
The day continued with poems, cheerful stories of life and traveling abroad, songs and jokes. Everyone caught the people.
We wish the members of the pension organization health and happiness!
Every pensioners’ club had made bread and took pictures for sending a Signs of Friendship Along the Danube:
http://bread-connects.tastes-of-danube.eu/give-a-sign-of-friendship/