The closing event for the project “Promotion of the Natural Values of the Shara Mountain by lectures on natural environment and involvement of the stakeholders” took place on 25 May this year at Popova Shapka, with more than 100 participants. This project was organised by MES, as a national coordinator, and the Center for Development and Improvement of Public Life (CDIPL), as a local coordinator, with the international collaboration with EuroNatur, our longstanding partner from Germany, and financially supported by the German DBU Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt).
The official part of the event consisted of welcome speeches from the MES president Ljupcho Melovski, the Euronatur representative Gabriel Schwaderer and the DBU representative Claudia Domel. As the project coordinator, Dime Melovski presented the accomplishments of all the applicants who carried out small grants, as the main activities of this project. Traditional music, national costumes, food, the documentary “Shara’s Eyes” and the puppet show for the youngest “Meet Sharco, Marco and their friends” were part of the unofficial programme of this event. In the framework of this event, there was a presentation for each project on stalls where the visitors had the opportunity to see the accomplishments and the promotional materials for the 20 projects financially supported by MES.
The event was featured in the media, that is, in the national televisions Telma and Sitel, as well as in the local television KISS, which had also been part of the small projects carried out at the Shara mountain.
We hope that with the help of this event MES will bring closer to the local citizens the idea for proclamation of the Shara mountain to be a national park. By doing this, new possibilities will emerge for the benefit from the protected areas and their grand significance.
