Ellatzite-Med and Geotechmin undertake initiatives for enhancing spiritual growth and sense of national identity in young people from the municipalities where the companies operate. Our campaigns are carried out with corporate donations and our employees’ voluntary work.

In 2012, we launched the programme Culture and National Identity through a donation campaign in the sphere of art and literature. In the following three years we donated more than 10,000 books written by Bulgarian and world classics to kindergartens, schools and libraries in the municipalities of Etropole, Zlatitsa, Koprivshtitsa, Mirkovo, Pirdop, Chavdar, Chelopech, Anton, Lopyan, Belogradchik and Berkovitsa. Along with that, we supported the organization of cultural events attended by prominent scientists, writers, poets and artists.

The success of this programme among local communities has motivated us to continue undertaking new patriotic initiatives. So in 2015 we held the first regional competition “My Homeland through My Eyes” for children’s drawings, essays and poems. In 2016, we added a new topic to the competition: “A Dream of Freedom”, while in 2017 the contest was called “Treasures from the Past - the Life and Work of People in My Homeland”. Our partners in these contests are schools from the regions where the companies operate.

Due to the considerable interest in these competitions under “Culture and National Identity” programme, a website has been created to feature the winning artworks - www.kulturainatzionalnaidentichnost.bg