Bulgaria Deputy PM and Finance Minister has welcomed student Tsvetelina Hristova to take over his duties for a day.

Hristova will be Finance Minister for the day, under the "Junior Achievement Bulgaria" program, "Manager for a Day". She and 1 000 other young Bulgarians attended the opening of the annual initiative at the Sheraton Hotel in central Sofia on Monday.

Tsvetelina, an 11th grade student at the Assen Zlatarov Vocational School in the town of Vidin, said that part of her work today would be to examine the 50 anti-crisis measures proposed by Simeon Djankov for adoption by the Bulgarian government.

Junior Achievement Bulgaria is now in its ninth year, and is supported by the US Embassy, government ministries, Sofia and other municipalities, and the media.

Its mission is to educate young Bulgarians to value free enterprise, understand business and economics, develop ethical leadership and be workforce-ready.

Junior Achievement Bulgaria offers high quality programs for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Elementary students are taught about their roles as individuals, workers, and consumers, and middle and high school students study the fundamentals of economics, creating and operating their own student companies.