20th
October
Sunday
20th October, the
billboard Campaign has now started and we are proud to be presented on
billboards all over Sofia. The Italian website Planetispired.info has just posted an article about the project as well as the Bulgarian newspaper dnevnik.bg.
We are very happy that our project is so warmly welcomed both in Bulgaria and
abroad, and we hope that this will inspire others to do the same and help us to
spread this concept all over Sofia.
Back
to the actual site; Since the announcement that Food for The Earth was elected as the Bulgarian winner of the EU´s A World We Like Challenge we have prepared the area for the compost site and the surrounding
area which also includes a playground for the children and a repose area for
the people from the village. The Food for
The Earth project is running under the bigger umbrella project Living Together, which is supported by
the municipality program “Green Sofia” 2013.
The area
destined for the compost site has been cleaned up and all the branches
collected from the area will be shredded and go into the composters.
The fencing posts for a fence which will be surrounding the compost place were put up. Next to the entrance two colorful hydrangeas will be planted, as a symbol for the beauty of the act: The act of caring about our environment, by starting to compost the bio waste and thereby not only reducing the amount of waste, but turning it into something useful.
Sunday October 27th
Or…if
we try to be more precise – we are at the end of the beginning. At the end,
because the first neighborhood compost site in Sofia
will be finished Today, Sunday October 27th. We are in the
beginning, because we hope that this is only the first
step and that many other neighborhood compost sites
will follow – in other districts and in other cities.
Today
we got a nice surprise, the compost area got a “gift” – the door for the
compost site was made as a gift from Mr. Konstantin Vasilev who is the owner of
the shop where we bought all the building material. When he got to know
about “Living together” and all the
voluntary efforts put in to beautify the area, he got highly surprised that
there are such people in such difficult times and he decided to support us by
making the door for free. It appeared to be a wonderful door, made with loving
care and precision.
Several
men tightened the net around the posts in the compost zone and installed the
door. Later a group of girls paint the net. At the end of the day everything
was prepared for the final and most important component, the compost
containers.
In
the coming days information boards will be displayed, where one can read about
how and what to compost.
7th November
FFE at NBU