site.btaFrench Language School in Plovdiv Receives Prize for Multicultural Education and Tolerance

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French Language School in Plovdiv
Receives Prize
for Multicultural Education and Tolerance


Plovdiv, South Central Bulgaria, February 15 (BTA) - The Antoine de Saint-Exupery French language school in Plovdiv has received a prize for multicultural education and tolerance in the name of Simone Veil, the press office of MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk said on Tuesday. The school is the first one to receive the prize established on the initiative of Kyuchyuk and his adviser Valentin Tonchev, who is among its graduates.

The prize will be presented at an official ceremony on February 18 at the French language school.

Simone Veil is a notable French politician of Jewish origin, who served as France's health minister and became the first woman president of the European Parliament in 1979. In 1944 her family were arrested and she was deported to the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp where she spent 13 months. RY/PP
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