CHOOSE LIFE initiative – a good cause
November 1st, 2007Oct 11th, 2007, by Sergey Stoynov, BG Reporter online news
The charity concert launched CHOOSE LIFE on the Saturday afternoon of 06.10.2007. CHOOSE LIFE is a campaign aiming to motivate the young generation to go for sports and dance activities, music, arts and education. Despite the bad weather in the sea capital Varna, more than 200 people gathered at the entrance of the popular Sea Garden, nearby the Festival and Congress Centre.
Minutes before the concert began
The most famous Bulgarian rap singer from Varna, Misho Shamara, appeared at the announced starting time of the concert. The one and only aim of the event was to give a chance to the young disadvantaged children and mainly, to collect donations for an orphanage in Varna, called GAVROSH.
Not even half an hour passed by when the spectators applauded the demonstrations of young hip-hop and rap groups, accompanied by the sound played by the famous international DJ Swed Lu. Well-known football and basketball players, as well as active citizens, part of the modern society stood out on the stage and summoned everyone to make a common cause, to give whatever we all can to the children at Gavrosh, and fill the transparent donations boxes on both sides of the platform. All the Gavroshes were wearing T-shirts, specially made by Eurolink for the campaign, and were handing out to the crowd soft drinks, snacks and T-shirts, under the ongoing sound coming from the stage.
Maria Ilieva, popular Bulgarian singer
As mentioned in the beginning, there was only one target, to collect donations for the disadvantaged children at Gavrosh, and for the good quality time were invited the 2 most popular pop singers in Bulgaria, Maria Ilieva and Grapha. The audience continued to surround the stage from all sides, even though the autumn rain was coming and going every now and then.
Christopher Violaris handing over the cheque to the Director of “Gavrosh”
More than 60% of the female spectators were singing together with Grapha, their favourite male performer. At the end of the 2-hour concert, the donations were counted and summed upto 862 BGN. After a brief speech, Christopher Violaris, Managing Director of “EUROLINK INVESTMENT GROUP” gave a cheque to the Director of Gavrosh, Mrs. Penka Stoyanova for the total amount of 3000 BGN, thus earned more applauses from everyone at Gavrosh and all present.
From left to right: friend, Miroslav (Finance Controller of Eurolink), Assia Violaris (Chris’s wife), Steph Violaris (Chris’s daughter), Christopher Violaris, more friends
As an end to the event, the MC of the concert, Misho Shamara, strongly recommended to the young crowd to fill their free time with sports activities, student manifestations, music, things that will make them a good example to the future generation, and not to fall for temptations, which damage our lives, such as liquer, drugs and crime.
I truly hope that these words have managed to be successfully “installed” in the hearts and minds of the big teenager group, which filled all spaces around the podium.
