A young man from the village of Byala Reka on May Day collects and donates wheelchairs to socially disadvantaged people. Dimitar Ivanov's gesture is quickly gaining popularity. In order to help more people, he accepts, repairs and ships the aids all over the country at his own expense.
Five years ago, Dimitar Ivanov decided to leave his secure life in the USA and return to his native village of Byala Reka and engage in agriculture and animal husbandry. The 29-year-old man believes that he has thus set a personal example, because he is convinced that if young people stay abroad, the elderly in small settlements in our country are doomed.
"A man from a suburb of Devin who contacted me. He has no young people around him, there is no one to call, there is no one to take him to the TELC commission, and so - we send him funds and give him smiles," says Dimitar Ivanov, quoted by BNT.
A year ago, Dimitar accidentally found two new wheelchairs while cleaning out an old house. And through social networks, he offered his help - to deliver them to those in need.
"Subsequently, other people started calling that they needed it, and so it became a campaign to collect and hand over the relevant funds".
The youth already has a list of those in need from all over the country. People tell him that they have a hard time dealing with the piles of documents they have to present to the institutions in order to receive aid.
"There are procedures to write, documents, but I don't mind, I admit it,'' says Venetka Dobreva.
"If Mitko wasn't there, we would need wire-to-wire solutions, a lot of arguments, going through the motions, it's just difficult,' added the mayor of the village of Karadzhalovo Mariyana Koleva.
Thanks to the campaign, patients from the hospital in Parvomai also receive aids.
"Within a week, by the time they leave our department, the seriously ill - strokes or vertigo, for which these things are especially necessary, they get to them very quickly and they go home with them," said Yulia Byalkova – senior nurse in the department of neurology, MBAL-Parvomai.