Pray for Romania’s Public Employees
Romanian currency: a banknote for 10 (zece) lei
On Monday, hundreds of thousands of Romanian state employees participated in a massive strike to protest wage and pension cuts.
Over 700,000 medical staff, teachers, emergency responders, and prison workers joined for a one day strike. Many of the workers joined to show solidarity with school and public institution employees, who plan to strike indefinitely.
But despite overwhelming dissatisfaction with the cuts, Romania’s plan to implement a 25% wage cut and 15% pension cut to all state employees still became effective as of yesterday.
Let’s pray for these teachers in particular as they continue to strike. They are the men and women running the schools in which the children we support spend every day. We need them to be examples of love, dignity, and courage for the youth of a broken nation.
And let’s pray for Mia’s Children as they educate and nurture young people in Romania, even when no one else can or will.