Youth of Bulgaria
A young Bulgarian named Nevse Molalieva (right) chats with friends before they head to a training course at a sewing factory in Ribnovo, a village in Bulgaria - the European Union's poorest country. Eurostat shows the country's youth unemployment rate is among the highest in the EU, but a German businessman named Bertram Rollman has found a way to give some young people in Ribnovo better job prospects - a dual education system popular in his native Germany.
Youths attend a training course at a sewing factory in Gotse Delchev, close to Ribnovo.
German businessman Bertram Rollman talks to an employee at his sewing factory, which provides training for some 40 young people.
Nevse Molalieva (right) works at a sewing machine during her course in the factory.
Young people gather on a street in Ribnovo.
Molalieva chats with her cousin in a cafe.
She talks to friends in the street.
A general view shows the village of Ribnovo, which lies some 190km (118 miles) south of the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
