{"id":32930,"date":"2022-03-15T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=32930"},"modified":"2022-03-15T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:15:19","slug":"seniors-are-using-hot-water-bottles-to-warm-up-says-teary-eyed-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/seniors-are-using-hot-water-bottles-to-warm-up-says-teary-eyed-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors are using hot-water bottles to keep warm, says teary-eyed activist \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seniors and the disabled were invited to Euronews Albania this morning to talk about their hardships over the past couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the current crisis, the government decided to allocate an extra \u20ac25-euros to their monthly pension plans. However, many representatives from these vulnerable groups are saying that this won\u2019t be nearly enough to cover their entire monthly costs.<\/p>\n<p>Activist Mira Pirendi spoke about the hardships that seniors are facing in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one would be able to go by with these retirement benefits. If they don\u2019t get extra help, they can\u2019t make it through the month. We need more help from the local government,\u201d \u2013 she said.<\/p>\n<p>With tears in her eyes, Pirendi said that she has seen senior citizens who have no means to pay for their electricity bills and are forced to use hot-water bottles to warm up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about the extra \u20ac25 euros. Even if he were to give them \u20ac250 euros, they wouldn\u2019t be able to cover their expenses. It hurts my heart to think about the senior women I\u2019ve seen, who have to put hot-water bottles under their feet to stay warm. They\u2019ve worked their entire lives \u2013 paid their taxes \u2013 and now they have to use bottles to warm up,\u201d \u2013 said the activist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/today\/2022\/03\/14\/activist-hits-back-at-pm-accusations-over-protest\/\">Activist hits back at PM accusations over protest<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/03\/14\/72-hours-in-a-cell-only-because-my-face-was-on-camera-protestor-details-his-arrest\/\">\u201972 hours in a cell only because my face was caught on camera\u2019, protestor details his arrest<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/03\/13\/rama-calls-protests-shameful-were-negotiating-with-serbia-for-our-wheat-orders\/\">Rama calls protests \u2018shameful\u2019: We\u2019re negotiating with Serbia to recover our wheat orders<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seniors and the disabled were invited to Euronews Albania this morning to talk about their hardships over the past couple of months. Faced with the current crisis, the government decided to allocate an extra \u20ac25-euros to their monthly pension plans. However, many representatives from these vulnerable groups are saying that this won\u2019t be nearly enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":32931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,815,867,486,151,610,633,866],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seniors are using hot-water bottles to keep warm, says teary-eyed activist \u00a0 - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/seniors-are-using-hot-water-bottles-to-warm-up-says-teary-eyed-activist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seniors are using hot-water bottles to keep warm, says teary-eyed activist \u00a0 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seniors and the disabled were invited to Euronews Albania this morning to talk about their hardships over the past couple of months. 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