Ninety-five-year-old Feliks Grejciun has been declared Poland’s oldest active worker.

Grejciun is the winner of the ‘Oldest Worker’ Contest and has been working for over seventy years as a leather-goods craftsman.

“I love people. I now am making things for a third generation of people. They say: ‘I hope you live to 100 years!,’” comments Gerjciun, a resident of the southern Polish city of Czestochowa.

The competition aims at breaking down stereotypes that people over 60 are not fit to work. Public opinion polls show that Poles consider a female at 59-years of age ‘old’ and a man at 64 ‘old.’ Over 500 elderly people were nominated in the contest sponsored by the daily Gazeta Wyborcza and the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan. (mmj)