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"The goal is non-government organizations to help the state the social groups under danger of poverty to be less, and not to remain isolated form the society", Mitov explained. File photo
65% of people in Bulgaria live at or below the poverty borderline which has been BGN 194 since January 2009.
This has been announced Friday by Podkrepa trade union's International Secretary, Veselin Mitov, at a press conference in Bulgaria's Black Sea coast city of Burgas.
According to the criterion set by the World Bank, a poor is citizen who earns below 60% of the average income in a given country.
Representatives of different trade union, employers and cooperatives have discussed in Burgas the aspects of poverty and the forms of social exclusion. The Conference was organized by the Podkrepa trade union.
The initiative is in relation to the declared by the European Commission International Year for Fight against Poverty 2009.
After such meeting are carried out in the Southern city of Plovdiv, and in the capital Sofia, a package of suggestions will be sent to the government. It will be presented in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and will contain certain measure for softening the negative consequences of the global economic crisis.
"The goal is non-government organizations to help the state the social groups under danger of poverty to be less, and not to remain isolated form the society", Mitov explained.
According to researches, currently, 80 million Europeans live at or bellow poverty borderline, which is 18% of the total Europe's population. Almost 20 million of them are children. 25 million of the Europeans live with less than EUR 8 a day, and every fifth person in bad housing conditions.
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