Bulgarians in Haiti: Shame on Bulgaria for Not Sending Relief Aid

Politics » DIPLOMACY | January 15, 2010, Friday // 10:21
Bulgaria: Bulgarians in Haiti: Shame on Bulgaria for Not Sending Relief Aid

Two Bulgarians residing in Haiti have sent an open letter to the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov asking the government to send aid to those affected by earthquake.

The letter has been sent by Bulgarian expats Ralitsa Konstantinova and Alexander Seymenov. According to them, there are four or five Bulgarians currently in Haiti.

“It has become clear that the few Bulgarians in Haiti are fine but the real news that dozens of thousands of people have been killed by the earthquake and their number is rising by the hour. Today, while trying to aid the rescue work, we crossed on foot the least affected quarter of Port-au-Prince, Petionville. The street was filled with corpses that no-one is attending to, they are wrapped in rags and pestered by flies,” the letter of the two Bulgarian expats reads.

They alert the Bulgarian government that the epidemic which is expected as a result of the piles of abandoned corpses is going to bring more casualties.

“Aid is arriving from all around the world but – as we have discovered – not from Bulgaria. We Bulgarians in Haiti are few in numbers and exotic foreigners but now we will also be ashamed foreigners. The list with countries sending aid is endless but our nation is not in it. We do not want to believe this,” the letter states.

The two Bulgarians make it clear they are aware that Bulgaria does not have the capacities of its Western European neighbors, and that it is affected by the economic crisis but they nonetheless hope that it will not remain impartial to the tragedy in Haiti.

“Every subsidy will be of help – BGN 10 000 in medical supplies will save dozens of lives. You do the math and figure how much money can be allotted,” Konstantinova and Seymenov write.

Meanwhile, the Bulgarian Red Cross has called upon all state institutions, private companies, public organizations, and the Bulgarian society as whole for donations as a sign of solidarity with those affected by earthquake in Haiti.

The bank account announced by the Bulgarian Red Cross for donations is the following: UNICREDIT BULBANK AD, IBAN: BG 64 UNCR 7630 1078 6609 13, BIC: UNCRBGSF, Bulgarian Red Cross (for those affected by the earthquake in Haiti).

The collected donations will go to support the efforts of the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. The Bulgarian Red Cross has already provided BGN 5 000 from its own funds for Haiti relief.

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Tags: Haiti, Earthquake, rescue teams, Boyko Borisov, government, Prime Minister, Bulgarian Red Cross

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