European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Their dreams were also mine.
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We wanted a few simple things:
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a job, a chance to support our families properly, the right to send our children to school,
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to live in a democratic society, maintain our individual values and at the same time defend the rights of the community.
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So as soon as I started working for the party, I set up women sections, even if I wasn’t particularly skilled.
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Women were all coming from the same background I came from.
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We had to discuss together about our own issues, learn to vote, identify our problems and develop our demands.
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If we discussed with men, women would not speak out.
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Having a women-only group allowed us to develop those issues and build up our claims.
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After the war there was dramatic poverty. The children were on the street.
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The first thing I recommended was to set up a nursery school. We had one, but it was too small for all the children.
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In Bainsizza street, with all the working-class housing, a multitude of kids spent the whole day on the streets waiting for their mother to come back from work.
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They ate only at breakfast and dinner, hardly at lunch. Their families didn’t have enough money for another meal.
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We wanted to set up the day-care centre, group together the kids who did not go to school and get them off the streets.
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We wanted to talk to them, grant them some security and possibly feed them.
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The Communist Party offered us one of their offices, a small apartment in the working-class area,
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so we started discussing on how to set it up.
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The campaign for nurseries was the first major issue
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together with the right to vote for women and equal payment ecc.
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Laila commands a staffetta-unit
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