In the beginning of October 2009 (1-4) the 9 Rotaract Clubs from Sofia coorganized the Rotaract European Meeting (REM) Sofia. The meeting aiming to contribute towards the participation of young people to charity and act of generousity was held in the beautiful city of Sofia – capital of the Republic of Bulgaria.

At REM Sofia 2009 particpated around 300 Rotaractors (200 foreign and 100 domestic Bulgarian). The program included plenary sessions on various topics of the work of Rotaract; traditional lunches at the “Pri Yafata” restaurant; national dinner at “Veseloto selo” restaurant;  Sofia sight-seeing tours; shopping of souveniers and gifts; gala dinner at one of the residences of the Bulgarian government- “Boyana”. At residence “Boyana” the guest were greeted by Mr. Plamen Minev (DG 2482 2009-2010), Mr. Geno Andreev (DRR 2482 2009-2010) and Jordan Terziyski (Chairperson of the organizing committee of REM SOFIA 2009 and representative in ERIC of Bulgaria)

REM Sofia 2009 was honored by the president of the ERIC – European Rotaract Information Center (Rotaract Europe) – Ms. Claire Tenant (UK) and by many members of foreign clubs. The meeting was coorganized with the help of Rotaract Club Sofia International and was attended by the club’s President Mr. Dimiter Mandradjiev and the general-secretary Ms. Paola Ivanova, as well as our frequent guests Mr. Asparuh Karastoyanov and Mr. Atanas Mihnev.

There was a special presentation of the next REM which will be in the city of San Marino (Jan 29-31 2010) – http://www.remsanmarino.org . We wish them luck!

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