Move out to my house
Every
reality has different faces and in crisis situations all of them become more
intense. Thus, last brutal racist attacks against refugees in Sofia, which
ended up with the stabbing of youngsters from different nationalities, are
faced with the same intensity by people who are offering everything they have in
order to help those who need it. In most of the cases this solidarity actions
are anonymous, not being possible to find them in any newspaper or television.
Last
week, some days before the nationalist march against immigrants took place, I
had the chance to experience one of this philanthropy stories in person. I was
having a drink with an amazing person, refugee, who was explaining me the terrible
conditions they were suffering in the overcrowded refugee camp where he was
living. We were keeping this conversation while having a cigarette in the door
of a bar. Suddenly, another smoker who heard us by accident, jumped into the
story out of the blue offering to my friend his house for free the time he
needed it. My friend moved out last Thursday and his hosting celebrated a
welcome dinner full of vegetarian food and positive energy. Amazing time and people.
Other
similar case, this time documented by the media, is the one staring by the four-time world boxing champion
Evander Holyfield and the billionaire Canadian citizen of Jewish origin Yank Barry.
They have rented a hotel
in Bankia, where Syrian families
from the refugee camp
will be accommodated. Today, a 17 member Syrian refugee
family has been received in this hotel. The goal is to integrate the refugees
into Bulgaria. In one of
his interviews, he mentions that his willingness to help the Bulgarian state is
provoked by the human endeavors of the Bulgarian citizens during the World War
2 when the community tried to save all Jews from being expulsed to
the concentration camps in Germany and Poland.
Even
though in Sofia, racism and xenophobia are becoming more visible day by day, we
should not forget the other side of the reality. The one in which
concentrations in solidarity with the refugees are held, and where food and
winter clothes are gathered in order to be delivered in the refugee camps. This
face of Sofia stuffed with famous or anonymous people willing to help. Persons
who are opening their lives and houses to those who have been forced to run
away from theirs.
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