In two weeks, it will be one year since the death of 15-year-old Danaya, who died in Pirogov Hospital. In her memory, a rap song with hundreds of shares on social networks recalled the tragic case with the aim of encouraging people to join the Donate for Life subscription. She calls for urgent reforms in children’s healthcare.
The song is called “Anger”. It is dedicated to Danaya, and the performer is Alex Melamed, marketing director in the first unicorn company in our country, valued at 1 billion dollars.
“Incompetence and mediocrity of our country. The boiling point of this anger was the Danaya incident and all the subsequent incidents of Annie’s struggle with our institutions. I really wanted to support Danaya’s cause and what better way than to pour it all into the studio,” says Melamed.
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The song is about an angry walk in the center of Sofia, which starts from “Ivan Shishman” street. “The first incident of my walk in the song is when I saw some children, I don’t know what age, teenagers, of which two or three boys were kicking another on the ground. Some were laughing, others were encouraging him. And the boy on the ground was saying to stop and something in his voice brought me back to my childhood and I said to myself: “We haven’t moved at all in all this time”, says the singer.
“20 meters later I reach the footpath that reminds me of Petar Todorov and I remember that name. Because my anger is both towards institutions and specific people who make our country what it is, woven of anger”. he points out.
Corporate rapper Alex’s song is a form of protest. But also a reminder. “I don’t live under the illusion that tomorrow all these people who support this corrupt system are going to hear a rapper and say, ‘Well, how come we didn’t realize we were super miserable.’ I want other people who they get angry while walking down their street and then they go home and forget that they have reached the boiling point. This is a problem for absolutely all of us,” explains Melamed.
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As angry citizens, let’s demand the six immediate reforms in children’s health care that the “Danaya for Life” initiative insists on. There are points for collecting signatures all over the country.
“You can see briefly the six issues that we propose and collect signatures. In a general sense, these are things that should have happened a long time ago and in every country they are a fact. It is sad that a citizen’s initiative needs to collect signatures, to change. This is not a question of some general health reform, we do not claim such a thing,” he says.
The signature will be submitted to the National Assembly on May 9, when it will be one year since the death of 15-year-old Danaya.
