April 13, 2013

Children of the economic crisis

While economic recession is going deeper more and more students have to leave school and get a job or even peg for some money. It is estimated that since the beginning of crisis 30.000 students leave school every year in Greece.
In Attica the phenomenon is rare but in Crete and Thrace the rate of students leaving school is 43.5% and 65%.

This 13-year-old boy lives in a very poor district of Athens. He plays bouzouki and sings on Ermou street trying to get some money to help his family.

He doesn't look very happy. Does he?.

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