Who are your unsung heros ?

[mozhe]

...mine are social workers. You never hear about the good work they do, only when it goes horribly wrong...Ime they toil away for not enough pay and work nothing short of miracles on a daily basis..so respect to them . Also have never met a grumpy one...

Police officers
People who care for the elderly

Off the top of my head

Us mums of course!!!

oh good one! SAHMs!!

People that work with children with special needs

For me, people who work in the Salvation Army. My Aunt and Uncle and two of my cousins and their wives are SA officers. And my grandparents. They work phenominally hard ... for peanuts.

Husbands

Full time carers.

young people who care for their parents who have special needs.

those who go out night after night to provide meals, coffee etc for the homeless.

Well i am so amazed and very proud of your suggestion Mozhe

i would say that my sons's reception class teacher is one of the greatest women i have ever met and i hope her career flies. she is newly qualified and has such an amazin future ahead of her.

all the staff at Naomi House,a childrens hospice in Winchester.( and their dog jake )

Cheers mamazon ....kept being accused of starting contentious threads so thought I'd better try and redeem myself...no one's nominated their psychiatrist then ?....( just joking...really )

Agree with what you're saying, mozhe, but Social Workers get paid (and God love 'em) for the work they do.

But we're talking unsung heroes.

It has to be the women in the SOE and the French Resistance during the Second World War.
There's a woman in my village who's now 102.She got the Legion d'Honeur (I have not spelt that correctly). She's French, married to an English man (long dead). She single-handedly saved hundreds of childrens' lives from Nazi terror, bailed out British Parachuters, and underwent Nazi torture without spilling a bean.

To all the women in the SOE, I raise my glass to you.

im a Sw so im biased lol

Embarassingly,( hope I spelt that right...), I think I misspelt heroes.....since coming to work in France,( and therefore spending most of my time writting in french...), my spelling in english has seriously deteriorated...

sod it...it's too late to be spelling anything..night !

What's an SW?

social worker

Of course! Duh !

i'm happy to nominate dh's psychiatrist, as she treats us both like human beings

one of my aunts (and I have 6!)

She's a carer, raised 3 dcs, had a brain anuerysm and has looked after all of my cousins including me (and we were BRATS!)

She spent a whole weekend looking after my children while we moved out of our house

She never says no and always offers to help

She's amazing

and I'm lucky to have her as my aunt

the people who give their time freely to help others - can be anyone doing anything that helps.

The staff at my son's nursery (and I suppose, most nurseries). They are paid not much more than minimum wage, yet they do a fantastic (exhausting, undervalued) job of caring our LOs. Anither one of those nurse / teacher things re: crap pay. Its a bloody scandal how little these people are paid.

anyone who works with children.

generally we are looked down on as though we're stupid by parents.

it's a tough job and workers should be paid to reflect this.

sad to hear southeast....my nanny is worth her weight in gold, we'd be lost without her..

I don't think that you meant unpaid when you said unsung did you Mozhe? Unsung just means not sufficiently appreciated.

Certainly my NHS midwives and HVs came in for a bollocking from other mothers - I thought they were all fantastic. Such a difficult job...