Students took to the streets of the Greek capital Athens on Tuesday, to protest over government austerity measures, including a curb in education spending.
The demonstrators said the cuts are making their life a misery.
“There are people at home in our families that have been laid off or are badly paid. We can’t pay for some basic necessities like food and electricity,” one protester said.
“Then the school year started a week ago and we don’t have teachers. We did not have any books and they said they don’t have the money to print them,” he added.
Outside parliament, students threw CDs towards the building. With the shortage of teachers and textbooks, written material has been handed out on disc instead.
With some students seeing their parents lose their jobs in this age of austerity, the country’s young generation now struggle to look to the future with any hope.
(source: Euronews)
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