It is with great pleasure and honour that I am here with you today, on the occasion of the release of the commemorative stamp for the 70th anniversary of the Pancyprian Organization of Greek Teachers (POED). For us, the PDOED is not just a trade union movement, it is something much bigger than that.
Trade union action is necessary to enable you to achieve your goals, but the responsibilities you have taken on go far beyond trade unionism. You have undertaken a national, humanitarian task and for that you are to be congratulated. We all have a memory of our childhood and it is always accompanied by the teacher we had as children. We will always remember these people with love and respect. Why? Because the parent entrusts their child into your hands and you as an educator take the children, whom everyone loves, embrace them with love, educate them from an early age and little by little, help them understand who they are and how to become worthy citizens of this society.
Your participation over the years in national struggles, in trade union struggles, in asserting the rights of our country, gives you the right to stand proudly before this society and to declare with confidence that "we are doing our duty and will continue to do it". I hope, with all our strength, that we can help you to continue this work.
I would like to thank Cyprus Post for embracing this opportunity to highlight the importance of the PDOED and teachers, in general, in our society.
I wish you good work, strength and courage and we will all move forward together.
Thank you very much!
(ΘΓ/EΠ)
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