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How difficult is it to be a parent in Albania?!

2022-09-12 09:25:51Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA DR. ENDRIT SHABANI

How difficult is it to be a parent in Albania?!

I met Vanesa this weekend at the market buying things for the two children who will return to school tomorrow.
Vanesa works in a bank, and her husband is an economist in a private company.

They have salaries above the average in Albania, but apparently this fall the accounts are no longer coming out.

You have no idea what is being done - he told me - All prices have increased by 40 - 50%. Children's clothes, school bags, notebooks, books, anything. Meanwhile, the salaries are the same.

It was telling me that every day it becomes more difficult to maintain the standard of living that they have had until now. Prices of basic foods such as meat, dairy and vegetables have almost doubled.

They are putting their hands in our pockets from all sides - he told me with a sense of irritation and surrender at the same time
Vanesa was talking and I was remembering that part of the price increase has been VAT, which has given the government an additional 400 million euros until now.

He complained about the price of oil that has become unaffordable. And in fact, except for yacht owners (who pay 65 ALL/liter) for others the price has become unaffordable.

Vanesa and her husband had a car, with which they go to work, take their children to school and to courses (the son was in a soccer team, while the daughter was in ballet class).

Why don't you take the bus? - I told.

Where do you live? - he returned to me - OK, the scandalous conditions, which compress you like sardines, and crack you in the heat in the summer, but you don't even get cheaper if you calculate it exactly.

Like any Albanian parent, Vanesa and her husband invest a lot in their children. They had taken them to a private school, because they had a bad experience from the public school. On one side was the director, a party militant who had created a toxic climate; On the other hand, the child was shivering in the winter months, because there was no heating, while he kept his biological needs until he came home from school, because typhus was playing havoc in the school bathrooms.

The school fee had increased quite a bit year by year, and with both of them working late, she needs to pay for the children's food and even have someone to help them with their lessons until they get off work.
Send him back to public school - you told him, when he complained to me about the situation.

It would seem like we failed if I put them back there - he told me, with some well-managed despair.
While Vanesa's family paid the cost of corruption and mismanagement of public funds, she is all alone in this crisis. I didn't ask him if he had received any help from the state, because I knew the answer.

I couldn't forget that Rama gave 50 million euros to some road builders and concessionaires, instead of helping parents like Vanesa.

It is becoming impossible to maintain the standard of life we ​​had - he told me for the second time, did you expect me to convince him otherwise.

To console her, I told her to think about how happy the children will be when they go to school tomorrow, and I left thinking that when this happens to Vanessa's family, who earns two salaries above the average, imagine how difficult life has become. in Albania for children with one parent, the unemployed, pensioners, students, disabled people.

I left thinking about the hundreds of thousands of parents who will send their children to school tomorrow.

How many of them took out loans to buy children's clothes and books? How many of them had to overcome despair and send tomorrow without being able to meet their basic needs? How many of the children have worked, sold or begged during the summer to raise the money they need for school? How many children will go tomorrow with empty stomachs, to a country that today ranks as the poorest in Europe?

I left thinking that Albania has enough natural wealth to feed all the children of this society, but that it cannot fill the hungry bellies of the inhabitants of a neighborhood on top of the hill.


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