site.btaYoung Flood Relief Volunteers Win European Citizen's Prize

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Young Flood Relief Volunteers
Win European
Citizen's Prize


Brussels, November 20 BTA) - Young volunteers who participated
in flood relief efforts in the Black Sea city of Varna earlier
this year, won the European Citizen's Prize for 2014 of the
European Parliament. This was announced by MEP Momchil Nekov who
nominated the Varna volunteers for the prize.

The Varna prize winners are residents of a social and
educational facility for parentless and socially disadvantaged
youths. They were among the first who rushed to the aid of the
victims of a devastating flood in Varna in June 2014.

Nenkov nominated them for the Prize for their selflessness and
compassion, and for their hard work in helping the people in the
flood-stricken Asparuhovo district of Varna.

Other Bulgarian winners of the European Citizen's Prize have
been poet Academician Valeri Petrov, the Chairman of the
Bulgarian Memory Foundation, Dr. Milen Vrabevski, and Peter
Petrov, a mechanic of the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship.

The European Citizen's Prize is awarded annually to recognise
exceptional achievements by Europeans. It is a plaque
representing the plenary hall of the European Parliament and
does not have a cash value. LY/LN/

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