00:01The demographic crisis may be the most serious issue facing the country and it is only getting worse.
00:07In rural areas and on the island, the population has been underway for years and schools are closing for lack
00:13of children.
00:14One such place is the small eastern Aegean island of Thymena, where the elementary school has just two students this
00:19year.
00:20When the children end in the district, the school will be in a school.
00:24And when they pass some years, they will be closed.
00:28Thymena has no preschool or middle school.
00:31The island's six teenagers must take the boat to neighboring Kfourny Island, every morning, to attend school.
00:38The child is only in the school.
00:40He doesn't have any other children to play, to come, to have this attitude.
00:46He is only his child.
00:48Now he has the first time in the district and he plays with this.
00:51Just two fairies a week, connect Thymena with Athens.
00:54The journey takes at least eight hours and includes a transfer at Fourny.
00:58When the weather turns bad, service is often suspended, leaving residents stranded for days.
01:02Why are the young people leaving here?
01:05Why are the young boys leaving here?
01:07What do they want to die here?
01:12What do they want to die here?
01:13What do they want to die here?
01:14We started to be a doctor.
01:16We started to live here.
01:17Our children are born here.
01:18Life is an aftermath of this.
01:19For this we have to be a man, the whole food we need to always be,
01:28from the supermarket in Athens.
01:34We had a lot of kids, then the world did a lot of kids.
01:39We had a family who had 15, another 7, another 9, another 12, another 13.
01:46Now they have a kid, you see, in school two kids.
01:50In the years, we had 45 kids in the district.
01:54The island has about 140 permanent residents, most of them pensioners.
01:59All the kids who come here, they go to Athens, do their work,
02:06they go to the mountains, they go to the mountains, they go to the mountains.
02:12The Greek government has announced incentives for people to relocate permanently
02:16from the cities to the islands and villages.
02:18But with inflation rising continuously, these incentives don't appear to be enough.
02:22It's not just the issue of democracy, only in Thémyne.
02:28It's everywhere.
02:29The smaller groups are only.
02:31I know that the city has multiple.
02:34No!
02:35That's insane.
02:37That is insane.
