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in Angola, but also Brazil
there is need of skilled workers, professors for teaching in primary and secondary schools.
In the interview with the Correio de Amanhã, Pedro Passos Coelho proposes
as an exit from unemployment an alternative job training
or a job in PALOP countries (African Countries of Portuguese Official Language)
Who wants to sustain itself, especially as a teacher, should look
at the entire Portuguese language job market to find an alternative.
My name is Rogerio
I'm thirty-three years old
and I am a professor of geography.
Back to the land
At the moment I live in Oliveira de Frades, in the province of Viseu
and I'm unemployed.
I worked for two years in Lisbon
Once I finished my contract in Alentejo, the Ministry of Education
Once I finished my contract in Alentejo, the Ministry of Education
greatly reduced the number of teachers.
So I chose a radical solution: I left Lisbon,
where I used to live with my partner
and I came back to live here, in my parents' and grandparents' house,
where I have a four or five hectare field
where I'm going to set up an organic plantation.
I started planting vegetables
and I began to clear the ground on my grandparents' land
that was full of thorns.
The basic idea is this: to take advantage of unemployment
and establishing a cooperative, a small company to grow high-quality product
and then find a market for them.
So far I have cauliflower, onions ... here we plant garlic
... soon I'll also gather chestnuts
these are some of the chestnuts that tomorrow I will show in Coimbra
to my future collaborators in this project on organic farming
to know if these chestnuts are a good product and see if there is interest in creating future partnerships.
About what our Prime Minister Passos Coelho said
suggesting to young people to emigrate, as this could be a credible alternative
I say no. I will not emigrate
Prime Minister of Portugal will not make me leave I'll emigrate when I'll feel like it
will not be a Prime Minister nor a State to force me to leave my country
when me, my family and all the Portuguese people contributed
with so much effort to the construction of our country and our democracy
and it is very sad, almost frightening,
to understand that the wrong policies of governments since April 25
since our Revolution, led our country
to this economic, social and cultural disaster.
Now we will go to the estate: here are most of the fields.
It's about four or five hectares, here is where most of of the project will take place.
It's about four or five hectares, here is where most of of the project will take place.
It is very tiring, but at least it's a way out of the continuos disappointment
coming from sending CVs and never receiving an answer
At the same time this is a "test"
to try to do something totally different from teaching.
What we see at this time in Portugal is the increase in unemployment
It's despair on people faces, It's suffering
there are many people who stopped engaging and believing
that we can overcome this crisis
and about education there are 30,000 teachers in this time without a job
They are desperate, they have no future, and will have no opportunity in this country.
During last year I worked as a teacher, I was working part-time
and what happens is that when you work part-time is better to wait for the unemployment benefits than to work
because you earn less by working than by waiting for unemployment benefits, because I used to work
at 200 km from home, and I had to pay for transportation, the house in Lisbon and the house in Alentejo.
so many teachers now pay to work. It is the absolute precarity.
My son is a professor of geography, but with this problem we have at the government
as in other countries, with this crisis ...
He had land to cultivate... and thought that the land could give him a little more.
But the problem is that the land currently can not give so much and I do not know if it will ever give again.
I lived at the time when you would really suffer from hunger, my parents had five daughters
and we often ate a half sardine, a loaf of bread and went to sleep
I would have liked to give my children what my parents were not able to give to their five daughters
because they worked in agriculture, and agriculture now does not provide enough to survive
we should have had work, communication, everything
so that our children would be someone in life, so that they would be dynamic young people
that they should have a job.
To fight, in my point of view, be it on the streets, in parliament or in associations
or in front of town halls, is the only way to contrast what's happening in Portugal
both on the level of education that on the level of health and economy
Then, on October 15 there was a demonstration against the government's measures
against the Troika and against the slavery conditions they are trying to introduce
bringing in Portugal a general impoverishment
All this led me, as a citizen and activist, on October 15, 2011
to behave in a more "radical" way and to get on the lion in front of the Parliament.
There was a hole in the police lines, so I took advantage of the security bug
and I climbed onto the lion with one goal, to incite people to rise up the stairs of the Parliament
so they would sit down and manifest their indignation for the direction Portugal is taking
The situation I am experiencing now is the most common in Portuguese society:
young people between 25 and 35 years unemployed. They have mostly master degrees
or PhD, but the economy, or rather the lack of economy,
does not allow these young people enter the labor market
does not allow these young people enter the labor market
"Come on, that this is ours"
Ultimately the Portuguese Parliament belongs to the people
It is neither the Deputies nor the government
Once I got down from the lion, after 7 or 8 minutes,
the TV began to broadcast the protest, and my mother saw me
and called me immediately, almost crying, to ask me what I was doing
if I wanted to be arrested, that I would be arrested and so on...
I did not like that he was up there on top of the lion
but in any case he was just protesting, and people have the right to do so
on the contrary, we have to protest to make things improve
In this way, we have no future: the rich will get richer and the poor poorer
Now we leave the city and go to Coimbra.
Coimbra is where I studied and where most of my friends live.
There I will deliver some products, in this case chestnuts and lemons, that are in season now.
These are the products that I will show to my friends to see if and how far
they are interested in my products or to become my partners.
My project as I have already said is "Start from scratch"
Start from scratch because, as the name implies I'll start my professional life all over again
Obviously it's very tough to leave pupils, classes, schools
and rebuild my life ...
I think I'll always be a teacher because this is the job I love.
I like the educational side, I like Research, I like human contact with pupils
I love teaching for the contribution I can give to society in terms of knowledge and education
who are the pillars of our country.
Students: "Hello Professor!"
Back to the land �