The other day I was with my mother in the shopping centre and there was a store that sold little animals made of fabric to put on your clothes, purses, etc… and she said:

- The other day a woman went to my job with lots of those animals to sell, she said it was from a elderly home and that the elders that lived there wore making them so they could buy their dippers and medicines…

I have to admit I was shocked… Not from the elders getting an occupation (I actually think that’s a good thing) but that they wore doing that because they needed the money to live with some dignity. It’s really very sad that a country that belongs to the EU, and to the OECD, has to put people that worked all their life, working to pay for medicines. I’m also a little bit concerned with the general way of thinking in Portugal, the way of patching instead of fixing. That way of thinking can be resumed in one sentence: If people have no money to buy medicines, lets buy them craftwork so they can have money to buy the medicines.
I don’t like that way of thinking.

As the old saying goes: Give a fish to a man and he’ll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he’ll eat for life…

Instead of asking for responsibilities to the government, we’re saying… Oh it’s ok, let’s not worry about this! I definitely do not like that way of thinking!