2 When I was working in the National Planning Institute (some 10 years ago), I didn't think of th... more 2 When I was working in the National Planning Institute (some 10 years ago), I didn't think of the poor. Probably because there were not poor at that time (!), or probably because everybody was poor; or probably because we were far away from the poor; or because poor was a prohibited word. When I started to work in the housing department in the ministry, I started to have contacts with different people and to listen to different sad stories: how people have worked and struggle with the life in lost areas of North-East Albania for building the hydropower stations, how others have suffered the exile from the communist regime, how others have lost their houses in the pyramid schemes hoping to become rich, and how old pensioners or veteran of the WWII were asking their privileges. Myftar was one of them; he was a pensioner, veteran of the WWII. He was coming in the office every Monday at 12 o'clock asking very gently: "is there something new for "us"? And with "us" he included that category that live in the absolute poverty line. He is not coming anymore. I don't know what has happen to him, but most probably he lost his hopes that one day he can have a house and live in a modest comfort as his age, contribution and human kind deserves. I hope some day I can do something for people like him.
2 When I was working in the National Planning Institute (some 10 years ago), I didn't think of th... more 2 When I was working in the National Planning Institute (some 10 years ago), I didn't think of the poor. Probably because there were not poor at that time (!), or probably because everybody was poor; or probably because we were far away from the poor; or because poor was a prohibited word. When I started to work in the housing department in the ministry, I started to have contacts with different people and to listen to different sad stories: how people have worked and struggle with the life in lost areas of North-East Albania for building the hydropower stations, how others have suffered the exile from the communist regime, how others have lost their houses in the pyramid schemes hoping to become rich, and how old pensioners or veteran of the WWII were asking their privileges. Myftar was one of them; he was a pensioner, veteran of the WWII. He was coming in the office every Monday at 12 o'clock asking very gently: "is there something new for "us"? And with "us" he included that category that live in the absolute poverty line. He is not coming anymore. I don't know what has happen to him, but most probably he lost his hopes that one day he can have a house and live in a modest comfort as his age, contribution and human kind deserves. I hope some day I can do something for people like him.
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