#liteni

[alexsavescu]

Un tânăr a murit în urma coliziunii între un tren și un autoturism

[sleepintro]

music asks 4 5 7 and 25

4. which song rips your heart out?

that i can think of, last words of a shooting star by mitski like. god. and uyire from minnal murali. it hits extra hard when youre watching the movie amd the scene comes on.. just. AGSHHSHSUSNSJ. pure agony

5. which song always puts a smile on your face?

any song i really like as a kid tbh. kangal irandal from subramanyapuram, addada mazhada from payya, ale ale from jeans!! ohoh and i had this one cd of like songs about lord krishna by kids and i was so fuckong obsessed with it and i tracked some of them down literally yesterday and omg. omfg.

7. do you prefer cds, streaming or vinyl?

streaming mainly because its more easily accessible and i don't really like to listen to music out loud and i dont use my computer for liteni g to music. and i dont own a record player soo no vinyl

25. do you and anyone you know have “a song”?

hmm no not really 😕

[naturesavenue]

photo by Baciu M.Cristian

[crinaboros]

Where have all the mothers gone?

by CRINA BOROŞ, Investigate Europe | The Black Sea, 5 October 2017

Romania’s parents are leaving to work abroad in the absence of a living wage at home, and children are paying the price

The drive from the northwest Romanian city of Iasi to the village of Liteni is a winding route through an open vista of sunflowers. Tractors work the fields next to peasants driving battered horse-and-carts, heavy with hay. On a fallow meadow outside the village, a shepherd with a tanned face holds up a gnarled wooden crook, and calls to his flock. The sheep pass by a lake, recently restocked with carp, and now open for fishing.

Crossing a narrow bridge into the village, we drive along roads that kick up clouds of dust, between rows of houses - new and old. Many are unfinished, with bright tiled roofs, and exteriors of plaster, standing on land scattered with building tools and broken pieces of fence.

We follow the road to the heart of the village, accompanied by the local school headteacher, George Moga, who points to the buildings.

“That house was made with money from Greece,” Moga says. “That one - with earnings from Italy.”

It’s a torrid July day and Moga takes us to a smallholding which breeds pigs and chickens. He introduces the owners, a family led by father Costel Butnaru.

“Come here in the strawberry season,” he says, “you won't find the shadow of a woman in this village!”

Photo: After working abroad family reunited in Liteni, Iasi county. Costel Butnaru (left), Lavinia Tihulcă, Petre Butnaru, Gabi Butnaru, Mihaela Butnaru and two nephews. Credit: Johnny Green, Investigate Europe, July 2017, Liteni, Romania

“It may be tough abroad, but being left behind is worse.”

Costel’s wife Vasilica, 44, has been on the road between home and work for eight years. She travels from Romania to Almonte, Huelva, in southwest Spain, where she shares a room with five women. From March to mid-summer, they pick strawberries and in September, they prepare plants for the coming season.

“I got left behind to take care of the children,” says Costel. “I taught them how to write, took their hands in mine and we drew letters together. I was trying my best to be there for them, and make sure they have what they need.”

A decade ago Vasilica was a housewife, and Costel was earning ‘nice money’ working in construction in Bucharest. But since the financial crisis of 2008, he could not find stable employment.

Sometimes there is work in the vineyards of nearby wine-maker Cotnari. Over 35 kilometres away is a car upholstery factory in Lețcani, but they only pay the minimum wage, plus food vouchers. Costel would need to commute by bicycle, even at night, and in weathers that can reach minus 20 degrees.

“It may be tough abroad,” says Costel, “but being left behind is worse.”

Romanians now has one of the highest percentages of its citizens working abroad in Europe, and many come from rural areas such as Liteni, where work is scarce or poorly-paid.

The villagers moved abroad to work in building, fruit-picking, housekeeping or care work in Italy, Spain, Germany and Cyprus.

But since the construction boom in southern Europe collapsed in 2008, the jobs available favour skills usually associated with women - which means a new phenomenon is emerging in Romania: villages with few - if any - women of working age, and large numbers of children growing up without a mother.

“We didn’t have our Sunday rest. We even worked on Easter Day.”

13 year old Gabi Butnaru has just finished 6th grade in the village of Liteni.

“Mommy used to help me read,” she says. “Sometimes she would help me with homework.”

But her mother has been leaving for work abroad since her daughter was in kindergarten. This year, on 9 March, a day after International Women’s Day, she left to pick strawberries and raspberries on a farm in Lucena, Spain.

Gabi’s life changed. When her father was out farming, she had to learn how to bake potatoes, make soup, and clean and feed the pigs, cows and chickens, before she could find the time to study.

“It was tough,” says Gabi, her eyes welling up with tears. “Finding the energy to do it all, to do it well…” With a straight face, she starts crying.

Her mother Mihaela is now back in Romania. It was tough for her to be away from home, among foreigners, and working for a boss with high expectations, whose language she did not speak.

She shared a room with four other women on the farm. Monthly rents in the nearby Spanish town were around 250 Euro per month, and the women needed to keep this cash for home.

Mihaela worked to exhaustion.

“We didn’t have our Sunday rest,” she says. “We even worked on Easter Day!”

Collecting strawberries is painful work. Pickers must bend over seven days a week, up to eight hours a day, plus overtime, and need to move fast through the bushes.

“I only got up to move when I carried the crates of fruit,” Mihaela says. “There is no stool to sit on, and nowhere to sit at all. Some women can rest on their fists, but I can’t. My back is killing me! When pain cuts like a knife, you feel like throwing in the job!”

Her husband Petre runs through the list of drugs his 33 year-old wife takes to Spain: painkiller Ketonal for backache, paracetamol for toothache, valerian herb for stress relief, and aspirin to increase the blood flow.

Despite the physical pain at work, and the emotional pain at home, Mihaela says: “We don’t have a choice: we need the money!”

Her husband broke his left leg 12 years ago, and cannot bend it. Now he works odd jobs, such as shoeing horses, welding and ploughing.

“He earns enough for bread and a bottle of cooking oil,” says Mihaela. “But with these earnings, child benefit and tiny aid from the local government, one can’t afford much.”

The family sometimes landed in debt, which she needed to pay off, and meant leaving abroad for longer, while her injured husband stayed at home with her daughter.

“A child is suffering,” she says. “She’s doing hard household work and yet she’s only a child. She shouldn’t be exploited, she’s so young! She’s had a lot to bear from a very young age!” Mihaela’s voice fades and tears resume. “I can’t bear being apart from them!”

Gabi nods through her sobbing, and admits she was crying often on the phone to her mother, asking Mihaela to return. Will she let her mother go abroad again?

Photo: Revisiting separation: Gabriela Butnaru (13), Lavinia Tihulca (13), Mihaela Butnaru (33). Credit: Johnny Green, Investigate Europe, July 2017, Liteni, Romania

“No!” Gabi says without hesitation, wiping her face dry. “All I want is us all to be at home, united, and to be a happy family.”

Revisiting separation: Gabriela Butnaru (13), Lavinia Tihulca (13), Mihaela Butnaru (33) (photo: Johnny Green, Investigate Europe)

“School, clean, cook, do homework, sleep, repeat”

13 year-old Lavinia’s mother left to Spain for the first time this year to pick fruit, and she had to take on her mother’s duties. This was stressful, as Lavinia loves to feel prepared for the school day, which lasts from 8 am to 2 pm. “Then I would clean, cook, do homework, sleep,” she says, “get up in the morning. Get dressed. Brush hair. Go to school. Repeat.”

She is in a class where 13 of her fellow pupils from 28 have parents working abroad. In many cases, this has ruined marriages, and the parents divorced.

“These pupils are not how they used to be,” says Lavinia. “They’re more distant, more reserved, less childish. Some of their grades are falling. All they can think about is the break-up of their parents.”

The number of children growing up with one or two parents working abroad is in the 100,000s in Romania, and could account for around ten per cent of all kids in the country, though true statistics are sketchy.

At the primary and middle school in Liteni, 115 pupils from 350 have at least one parent working abroad. The headteacher George Moga says economic migration scars many of the children left behind.

“We’ve experienced cases of child burn-out,” Moga says. “Parents who work abroad tell children that they are doing this for them. Meanwhile, the child’s sole duty is to study hard, so children who have to learn to manage without a parent’s help or supervision, drown themselves in study or household chores, and often end up unable to smile.”

Photo: “We’ve experienced cases of child burn-out,” says Liteni headteacher George Moga. Credit: Johnny Green, Investigate Europe, July 2017, Liteni, Romania

Nation on the Minimum Wage

The United Nations believes around 3.4 million Romanians have emigrated since the fall of Communism - 17 per cent of the country’s citizens.

Every village in the country has seen its share of work migrants - officially there are now over one million Romanians are in Italy, 900,000 in Spain, 600,000 in Germany and 180,000 in the UK, but the real figure is greater.

At first glance, an observer would ask whether this was due to Romania’s rapid deindustrialisation following Communism, which must have witnessed a surge in unemployment.

But on paper, only 4.18 per cent of Romanians are jobless. One of the lowest numbers in the EU. So why do they move abroad?

Firstly, there is no job security. Only 5.1 per cent of the working poor aged 16 to 64 have a permanent employment contact.

Secondly, wages are too low. The country has the second lowest minimum wage in the EU - at a net value of 1,065 Lei (232 Euro) per month. Over 230,000 citizens earn less than the minimum wage. The state has to top up the difference with benefits.

Thirdly, too many employers pay this rock-bottom salary. According to Labour Inspection agency data, around a third of contracts covering full and part time jobs pay the national minimum wage or under.

Romania’s average (median) salary, the net cash that families take home at the end of the day - is the EU’s lowest - at 2,448 Euro per annum, and has been since the crisis of 2008. Bulgaria beats it with 3,151 Euro, according to Eurostat.

This is set against the fact that prices of goods and energy costs are more or less the same as in western Europe.

“An increased number of sexual abuse cases”

This behaviour of the children left behind changes. A 2012 UNICEF report, and a Soros Foundation study found that parent migration was one of the main causes of children leaving school early. In general, one in five kids in Romania leave school early. This rate is on the rise - to 19.1 per cent in 2015, according to an EU report.

Director of the Social Assistance and Child Protection Services (DGASPC) in Iaşi Niculina Karacsony says a major problem is that many children have not been prepared by their parents for a temporary separation.

“We’re not condemning parents who leave to earn a living abroad,” says Karacsony. “But we are condemning those who do so without preparing their children for the separation, and who do not communicate often with them.”

This is backed up by Alex Gulei, executive director of Alternative Sociale, an NGO in Iaşi which works closely with DGASPC. “One thing that comes up again and again is that they hate when parents forget to Skype at 7 pm as they are expecting, or promise to return on a date when they don’t,” says Gulei. “They hate it when parents do not deliver on their word.”

In the most extreme cases, say experts, kids left behind by parents have died following irreversible depression. Another problem is domestic violence. Among the cases of children of migrant workers that are referred to DGASPC Iaşi, its director stresses “an increased number in cases of sexual abuse”.

This most commonly happens within the family, and when mothers are not at home. Some fathers have not seen their wives for a long time, and have taken to drink, while brothers have abused their siblings. Victims have been as young as three years’ old.

“I grew up with my parents fighting. This was our normal.”

19 year-old Andreea’s mother worked abroad in Italy during her teenage years, leaving her and her younger sister with a father who took to drink and violence.

“I grew up with my parents fighting,” she says. “This was our normal. I was glad when mommy left because my father was brutal with her. Finding work in Italy was her escape.“

Now she is a volunteer organising social activities at the Alaturi de Voi Foundation, which aims to reduce teenage pregnancies and drug abuse, and offers young people social and psychological support.

Photo: “I asked my mother to come home immediately, but because we would be left with no money, I had to wait for her to save for one more year,” Andreea, now 19. Credit: Johnny Green, Investigate Europe, July 2017, Liteni, Romania

Just before Andreea became a teenager, her mother, a sales assistant, needed money because she was in debt after defaulting on bank loans. Her earnings from work in Italy covered the interest payments, and she could send cash home only for food.

“But there would be times when father would waste all the money on smoking or another of his addictions,” she says. ”He became jealous, and suspected my mother of cheating.”

Her mother telephoned often and saw her daughters once or twice a year. But having to step into her mother’s role, take care of her little sister and the house, meant Andreea would be fainting, and feeling sick, and soon developed gastritis.

”It was mainly because of stress, but also poor nutrition,” she says. “I was young when mother left, I couldn't cook and was eating instant soup all the time.”

During this time, the teenager was admitted to hospital for five times with gastritis.

As her parents’ marriage disintegrated, her father began hitting his two daughters.

”He filed for a divorce, thinking this would bring my mother home and make her stay,” she says. “Mother saw this as her chance to escape a bad marriage and she took it.”

As the separation began, Andreea’s father kicked his two kids out of the house. They did not even have time to pack their belongings. In shock, they sought refuge at their grandparents’ house, where - due to the age gap - they would have constant arguments.

“I asked my mother to come home immediately, as I could not look after myself,” she says. “But because we would be left with no money, I had to wait for her to save for one more year.”

Alexandra says that she has lived in “total stress” most of the years spent away from her mother.

“If someone is confrontational or raises their voice, I’m in tears,” she says. “I cry out randomly and I don’t understand why.”

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION - The Black Sea - http://m.theblacksea.eu/stories/article/en/mothers-leave-romania#

Photography: Johnny Green

[leggypuppy]

I wanna get a reading partially because I have no idea what I’m doing w/ my life and partially because ooh pretty cards sooo can I have a reading please. Thanks...*tries to think of a gender neutral term of endearment* homie.

THE HOURS HAVE SPOKEN

Past: The Lionsmith/Strength reversed

Old wounds run deep. Infections may linger and bide their time between muscle and steel. A long liteny of enemies well remembered by the body, if not by the mind.

ASPECT: Edge

Present: Bronze spintria/Five of Pentacles reversed

Spent effort and lost work. The moments between the blow of the hammer or the scratch of the pen do not add up to a full period of rest. Now is as good a time as any to pause. Your work will still be there when you come back.

ASPECT: Forge

Future: Instar: Creeping/Knight of Wands reversed

A journey threatened by delays and frustration. Blind alleys and dead ends will be common, but over time you will learn their voices and their faces and whether you will enjoy your time with them or not. Change is a road, not a city, and you may travel along it whichever way you choose.

ASPECT: Moth

[adelphahighbrow]

Hot Take

Gilbert has been a dipshit fuck boi all season and Anne deserves WAY better. Sorry, but Ima need a little more than his childish tomfuckery to believe in him as a romantic prospect for Anne ever again. Go to college and accrue a liteny of diverse lovers, Anne-girl. Starting with seeing through this thing with Diana. They have way more chemistry than you and Dead Eyes Blythe. In fact, use your body to reconcile Diana & Jerry in a spiritually healing three way. And let Gilbert walk in on that. 

[adrianseoblr]

Asfalt Rece Liteni

Asfalt Rece Liteni Oferta Pret Asfalt Rece Firma noastra, RECOSAL ENERGY TEAM SRL este inscrisa in programul SEAP Mixtura Asfaltica Stocabila la Rece este un produs de inalta calitate pentru reparatii durabile din Liteni, chiar permanente, fiind compus din agregate minerale sortate si acoperite de o pelicula de bitum fluxat cu additivi speciali. Aditivii folositi pentru facilitarea…

[haitonic]

Late night #photoshoot ❤️ #ig_romania #cluj #travelgram #cetatealiteni #travelmore #haitonic #sunset #liteni #trashthedress #photography #romania #romanianphotographer #photooftheday #lookslikefilm #summer #lovemyjob #lovethisplace (at Cetatea Liteni)

[calintwist]

I'm the happiest man since I'm with you #love #beautiful #girlfriend #sony #sun #trip #roadtrip #sweets (la Liteni) https://www.instagram.com/calintwist/p/BvrZTxChQ4K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dn9ja04obdyb

[alexsavescu]

Liga 4 - Remiză cu multe goluri în confruntarea dintre Moldova Drăguşeni şi Viitorul Liteni

Liga 4 / Etapa a 6-a (1 octombrie 2023) Juniorul Suceava – Minerul Iacobeni 4-1 Recolta Fântânele – Juniorul Salcea 0-4 Moldova Drăgușeni – Viitorul Liteni 2-2 Bucovina II Rădăuți – Șomuzul Preutești 0-3 Forestierul Frumosu – Sporting Poieni Solca 6-2 Bradul Putna – Amatorii Rarău 3-0 (nu s-a disputat) Șoimii Gura Humorului – Progresul Frătăuții Vechi 3-1 Bucovina Dărmănești a…

[psychotic-psypport]

cherry ivory golden freckles buttery honey shampoo clouds sapphire sunset (sorry that’s a lot, i hope you feel better soon xxx )

Thank you!! :)cherry - what is your sexuality?I'm a lesbian!! ivory - describe your pajamas?I have a big gray onesie with snowflakes on itgolden - favorite stationary product?Staplerfreckles - most-worn article of clothing?My Dr. Scholl's Jamie shoes. It makes me so sad that they're so destroyed because they don't make them anymorebuttery - favorite snack?I'm a candy person, my favorite kind is those airheads rainbow chunkahoney - favorite term of endearment?I like lover, angel, doll, and sweetheartshampoo - favorite scent?Vanilla extractclouds - describe one of your favorite dreams?I once had a dream that one of my friends from school got into a physical confrontation in order to protect me from my ex best friend who used to hurt me and then checked to make sure I was ok. Kinda dark, but it made me happy as I was dreaming itsapphos - favorite poet?Richard Siken!! My favorite poem is "Liteny in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"sunset - what are your pronouns?She/her, they/them. It changes based on how I feel that day, my gender identity is a fluid scale between girl and agender

[naturesavenue]

photo by Baciu M.Cristian

[crinaboros]

De stille tårenes land

by CRINA BOROŞ, Investigate Europe | Aftenbladet, 28 September 2017

JOBBENE VÅRE: Millioner av rumenere må utenlands for å finne arbeid å leve av. Prisen er slit, smertestillende og stress. Samt barnas tårer. 

- I jordbærsesongen ser du ikke snurten av en kvinne i denne landsbyen! Det sier Costel Butnaru. Han er en av mange ektemenn i landsbyen Liteni i nordøst-Romania med kone som jobber utenlands for å kunne betale regninger hjemme. Mor som jobber i Spania. Mor og far som jobber i Italia. Mor som jobber i Italia, far som er død. Far som jobber i Tyskland. Mor som jobber i Tyskland, far som jobber på Kypros. På skolen i Liteni har 115 av de 350 elevene minst én forelder som har arbeid i utlandet.

Photo: Denisa er elev ved skolen i Liteni, der rektor George Moga har ansvar for 350 barn. 115 av dem har minst én av foreldrene i utlandet. By Johnny Green, July 2017, Liteni village, Iaşi, Romania

De speiler store nasjonale tall: Over 95.000 barn har foreldre som tjener til livets opphold i andre land. Trenden peker oppover.

Tallene er altfor lave, fastslår Alex Gulei, leder i den frivillige organisasjonen Alternative Sociale. En studie de gjorde med Unicef i 2008, fant 350.000 barn med foreldre som var økonomiske migranter – mens det offisielle tallet var 85.000. Forskjellen var at de offisielle tallene bare viser barn som har fått formell verge mens foreldrene er borte. Den andre rapporten bygde på tall hentet inn på skoler.

Utbrente barn

Arbeidsutvandringen setter dype spor i mange barn, ifølge George Moga, rektor ved skolen i Liteni.

- Vi har hatt tilfeller med utbrente barn, sier han.

Photo:  Halvparten av sjetteklassingene som gikk ut av skolen i Liteni i sommer, hadde minst én av foreldrene i utlandet. By Crina Boroş, July 2017, Iaşi, Romania

Halvparten av sjetteklassingene som gikk ut av skolen i Liteni i sommer, hadde minst én av foreldrene i utlandet. CRINA BOROS

- Foreldrene sier til barna at de gjør dette for deres skyld. Imens er ungenes plikt å gjøre det så godt de kan på skolen. Barn som må takle hverdagen helt uten hjelp eller oppfølging fra foreldre, drukner seg i lekser og andre krav. Vi ser deprimerte unger som ikke klare å smile, sier Moga. Han anslår at et av ti barn som har foreldre som jobber utenlands, dropper ut av skolen.

- Vi fordømmer ikke foreldre som drar ut for å forsørge familien. Men de må forberede barna sine og holde kontakten med dem, sier Niculina Karacsony. Hun leder barnevernet i Iasi.

Barnevernslederen sier hun ser stadig flere barn med foreldre i utlandet som er seksuelt misbrukt, oftest av familiemedlemmer. Dette, mener Karacsony, er en følge av at mange mødre har reist.

Bestemor oppdrar de små

På trammen til Costel Butnaru forteller en storfamilie om sine migrasjonserfaringer.

Photo: Rodica Grecu og Elena Asaftie kjenner den vonde siden av arbeidsvandringen. Rodica dro fra tre små sønner for sesongarbeid i spansk landbruk, Elena sier hun snart ikke orker å vinke farvel til sønner og døtre flere ganger mens barna deres står gråtende igjen. By Johnny Green, July 2017, Liteni village, Iaşi, Romania

- Jeg har to foreldreløse her. Ingen mor, ingen far, sier en bestemor. Hun er i ferd med å bli verge for barnebarnet Bogdan på tre og et halvt og hans like unge fetter, og vil være anonym.

Bogdans foreldre har skilt seg. Faren er kokk i Tyskland. Moren er også «et sted i utlandet», sier bestemor. Som verge får hun en viss offentlig støtte. På toppen av penger som guttenes foreldre sender hjem, skal hun klare å ta seg av de to små med dette.

Photo: Barn leker ved en innsjø i landsbyen Liteni i Romania, der 115 av skolens 350 elever har minst én av foreldrene i utlandet. By JOHNNY GREEN, July 2017, Liteni village, Iaşi, Romania

13 år og savner mor

Gabi Butnaru har gått ut sjette klasse. Hun har greid seg uten moren Mihaela i et halvt år. Mihaela kom nettopp hjem fra en gård i Lucena i Spania. Der har hun plukket jordbær og bringebær. Hun forlot datteren dagen etter morsdagen. - Mamma pleide å hjelpe meg med leksene, sier Gabi.

Uten moren var livet helt annerledes. Når faren var ute og jobbet, måtte Gabi lage mat, gjøre reint og mate dyra før hun kunne gjøre lekser. - Det var vanskelig, sier 13-åringen lavt mens øynene fylles av tårer. - Det var vanskelig å klare å gjøre alt, å gjøre det skikkelig.

Tårene siler. Det gjør de også på Mihaela, som sitter ved siden av henne.

Gabi gråt mye på telefonen også, og tagg moren om å komme hjem igjen.

Vil hun la Mihaela reise en gang til? - Nei! smeller det fra 13-åringen, som tørker tårene. - Jeg vil bare at vi skal være sammen, hele familien, hjemme.

Faren til Gabi heter Petre. Han brakk foten da hun var baby og kan ikke bøye den. Petre tar småjobber; han pløyer, sveiser og reparerer hestesko. - Han tjener nok til å kjøpe brød og en flaske olje, sier Mihaela. Hun må til pers for å få det til å gå rundt. Og siden det knapt fins arbeid lokalt som er til å leve av, er løsningen å dra utenlands. På gården i Spania delte hun rom med fire andre kvinner mellom skiftene. Men hun hadde ikke mye tid på brakka. - Jeg var utkjørt. Vi ante ikke hvilken ukedag det var, for vi hadde ikke søndagsfri, sier hun.

Photo: Lavinia Tihulca er 13 år og vet hvordan det er når mor jobber i et annet land. By JOHNNY GREEN, July 2017, Liteni village, Iaşi, Romania

Petre viser fram listen over piller kona hadde med seg: Ketonal, et sterkt smertestillende, mot ryggvondt. Valerian mot uro. Aspirin for blodomløpet. Paracet mot tannverk.

Både familien og hun selv har det vondt når hun er borte. Men Mihaela lar ikke følelsene ta overhånd. - Vi har ikke noe valg. Vi trenger pengene, sier hun.

Fri flyt – ond sirkel?

Fri flyt av kapital, varer, tjenester og mennesker er selve mantraet i EUs indre marked. Det skal tjene alle, i hvert fall på sikt.

For enkeltmennesker – og for EU-prosjektet – har arbeidsvandring fra Sentral- og Øst-Europa gitt positive utslag, fastslo Det internasjonale valutafondet IMF i en «discussion note» i fjor. Dessuten har mottakerlandene i vest og nord trolig tjent på at faglærte og høyt utdannede øst-europeere har tilbudt kompetansen sin hos dem, mener økonomene. 3,4 millioner rumenere har reist fra Romania, der nesten halvparten av befolkningen lever på landsbygda. Hver sjette som utvandret, hadde høy utdanning, ifølge Verdensbanken. Tyskland, som har sterkt behov for leger, har rekruttert flest utenlandske medisinere fra Romania, viser tall fra den tyske legeforeningen.

Photo: I landsbyen Liteni i Romania tjener mange pengene sine på å jobbe utenlands. De hever sin materielle velstand flere hakk. Noen får råd til å bygge hus. Kostnadene ved arbeidsvandringen er på andre plan. By JOHNNY GREEN, Liteni village, Iaşi, Romania

De fleste rumenere som har reist, er imidlertid arbeidsfolk som har bidratt til økonomisk vekst i landene der de har betalt skatt. Masseutvandring som dette kan derimot ha hemmet veksten i øst-europeiske land og bremset utjevningen av de enorme inntektsforskjellene mellom land i Europa, mener IMF-økonomene. «Utvandring ser ut til å ha redusert konkurransekraft og blåst opp størrelsen på det offentlige systemet ved at sosialutgiftene har fått en større andel av økonomien», skriver valutafondet, som advarer: Hvis det ikke blir satt inn tiltak for å motvirke dette, risikerer Europa at utvandring og altfor langsom utjevning blir en ond sirkel.

Photo: En familie på vei for å fiske i Litani, en rumensk landsby der svært mange av barna lever med savnet av mor eller far – eller begge. De jobber i utlandet. JOHNNY GREEN, Liteni village, Iaşi, Romania

I Liteni som mange andre steder på den rumenske landsbygda, er familien fortsatt sikkerhetsnettet – helt uunnværlig. Men tilgangen til mye bedre betalt arbeid i andre land har snudd opp ned på tradisjoner. I mange familier er det nå kvinnene som drar utenlands og blir hovedforsørgere, mens fedre – eller bestemødre - blir hjemme med barna. Som 62 år gamle Elena, mor til fem og bestemor til mange flere. Også hun synes arbeidsvandringen har en uholdbar side.

- Jeg er syk av å vinke farvel til ungene mine der de står med bagasjen sin med egne barn som stirrer gråtende på dem. Jeg vet ikke om jeg orker det mer.

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION: https://www.aftenbladet.no/okonomi/i/e9QM4/-De-stille-tarenes-land

Photography: Johnny Green

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Now I know this wont sound very helpfull my dear but have you tried liteniing to it. Maybe if you listen and does what it tells you maybe it would stop-S!C

...I don't want to, though. The voice is really nasty to me.