As a boy in the interwar years, Antonis Giouzelis would help his father with the family flock of sheep and goats on the steep mountainsides of Kyparissi in Laconia.
As a boy in the interwar years, Antonis Giouzelis would help his father with the family flock of sheep and goats on the steep mountainsides of Kyparissi in Laconia.
I direct a collegiate civic engagement hub in Thessaloniki. Last month some compatriots and I mobilized a team of volunteers and organized a nonpartisan voter registration drive for the benefit of citizens of the United States currently residing throughout northern Greece. It was a collaborative pursuit, the goal of which was to provide both an opportunity and a service to others. Without recompense, let alone profit.
Open Arms, the ship of the same name as the Spanish charity that owns it, transporting 200 tons of aid (flour, rice and protein), set sail on Tuesday from Larnaca, Cyprus, for the famine-stricken Palestinian people in Gaza, as part of an initiative to open a humanitarian corridor.
In her tiny Athens apartment, 93-year-old Ioanna Matsouka has knit thousands of brightly colored scarves for children in need from Greece to Ukraine – and she has no plans to quit just yet.
Stefanos Tsitsipas has pledged to donate $1000 for every ace he hits during the Mexican Open tennis tournament to help with the reconstruction of Acapulco following the devastation caused by Hurricane Otis last October.
Judges returned the case file against Father Antonios Papanikolaou, the founder of the Ark of the World children’s charity, which is under investigation for child abuse and financial crimes, to the investigator on Wednesday, requesting further interrogations to be conducted.
Suspicion of humanitarian organizations is not a Greek hang-up; it’s universal. The case of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a typical example.
Athens’ prosecutors office has ordered an investigation into the founder of one of the country’s best-known soup kitchens on charges that he embezzled and misused at least 600,000 euros in donations.
Pantelis Tsiadis’ day often begins before dawn, with the alarm clock ringing at 5.30 a.m. The 57-year-old divides his time between the facilities of the food bank in Kryoneri, East Attica, and the kitchen of the Panagia Myrtidiotissa parish in Mikrolimano, Piraeus, various shops in the neighborhood that contribute to the free meal program, as well as delivering food to those who need it but are unable to come to the soup kitchen.
Participants in the “Ride of Love” initiative take a photo in front of the Christmas tree on downtown Athens’ Syntagma Square on Thursday night.
As 2023 year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in the Gaza Strip and the genocide in Darfur may be resuming. A man charged with 91 felonies is leading in American presidential polls, and our carbon emissions risk cooking our planet.
A leading international medical charity alleged Thursday that testimony from dozens of migrants over the past two years points to a “recurring practice” of secret, illegal and often brutal deportations back to Turkey from two eastern Greek islands.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Monday arranged for hundreds of meals to be delivered to four charities that feed people in need.
The South African Embassy in Athens and coaches of the famed Springbok national rugby team traveled to Neos Voutzas on the Greek capital’s Mount Parnitha to offer their services to a Greek Orthodox orphanage that is home to 65 children.
The Penny Marathon fundraiser for strays is looking for participants and volunteers to help during the event, which will take place on July 9 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
Kivotos tou Kosmou (Ark of the World) used cruel forms of punishment to ‘discipline’ its wards and denied them visits with their families, according to an investigation by the Greek Ombudsman.