Bulgarian Belly Dancer donates her income for Syrian refugees

A Bulgarian belly dancer, who expressed her sincere empathy with the Syrian refugees, is allocating some of her income to help them, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter.

Karina Zakhryiva, 34, mother of 4-year-old girl, based in Bulgaria, has donated $ 750 to treat a Syrian refugee child in Bulgaria, who is sick and need medical and diagnostic tests.

Zakhariva told Zaman Alwasl via a Skype that she would donate some of the money she gets from belly dancing to help Syrian refugees who have left their homes because of the war and the bloody conflicts in Syria and live inhumane condition in their refuge.

Hundreds of Syrian refugees have applied for asylum or humanitarian status here in Bulgaria, the poorest country in the European Union, even more the a mounting numbers of refugees start to raise Bulgarian government concerns, last Year, the established a cmap for more than 500 Syrian refugees in Harmanli town.

Bulgaria’s average income is $5,600. Its unemployment rate tops 11 percent. Since the end of communism, it has experienced significant emigration and very little immigration. And the Bulgarian asylum system is struggling to meet international and EU guidelines on the treatment of refugees — a fact that human-rights organizations are trying to change.

Zakhariva expressed her respect to Syrians who have unfortunately their dreams and hopes destroyed” She added to Zaman Alwasl: “It is sad to see children without parents, and homeless, I have seen the horrors of war in their faces, therefore, I wanted to devote part of my income as a belly dancing performer to offer their needs of food, clothes and homes”

She added that she had done the same with Lebanese refugees who came to Bulgaria after 2006 war, as well as Iraqis who have left their country because of war in early nineties with the help of her ex-Jordanian husband

Karina is specialist in makeup and beauty, while belly dancing is her hobby and a profession at the same time. Her husband Martha is a lawyer and she has a 4 years old daughter “Tamira”.