
Bulgaria’s President G. Parvanov (R) gave start to the national campaign "Donate a Book" with the donation of 500 new books to different libraries in the country. Photo by Nadya Kotseva (Sofia News Agency)
The national campaign "Donate a Book" initiated by Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov kicked off Wednesday in Sofia.
The campaign will invite Bulgarians to revive the tradition for presenting books to the their love ones. It is also to call to publishers, businessmen and writers to help Bulgaria's culture centres and libraries.
The start of the campaign was given with the donation of 500 new books to different libraries in Bulgaria to mark the 150th anniversary since the opening of the first Bulgarian culture centres.
So far 27 leading Bulgarian publishing houses have declared their willingness to join the campaign.