Aimilia Kamvysi, the last survivor of the famous three “grannies of Lesvos”, passed away at the age of 93, it was announced on Sunday. She was one of the three “grandmothers of Sykamnia,” whose picture in the summer of 2015 amid the refugee crisis went viral worldwide. The three grannies …

Efstratia Mavrapidou, one of the famous three Grannies of Lesvos, passed away at the age of 96. The three grannies became a symbol of solidarity with refugees in 2015, when they offered to feed and comfort a refugee baby and give a break to the mother from Syria who fled …

A sunshine of humanity. Amid a storm of tragedies with refugee babies and kids drawn in the Aegean Sea. Three Greek grannies and a refugee baby.  One of the elderly women holds the baby carefully in her arms and bottle feeds it. The mother stands nearby, relaxed that her baby …

Maritsa Mavropoulou does not live on the island of Lesvos anymore. One of the three grannies, who became symbol of the Greek compassion and kindness with refugees, passed away at the age of 89. It was October 2015, when the picture of the three elderly Greek women feeding a refugee …

It’s official. Greece submitted a request to the Nobel committee asking the nomination of Greek islanders who have helped Syrian and other refugees for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016. The relevant campaign was organized by international campaign by grassroots group Avaaz that has collected more than 638,000 signatures online asking …

More than 800,000 refugees and migrants passed through the Greek islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea on their way to Europe for a better future. While local authorities and the central government were too slow to react to the challenge of thousands of people stranded, the residents of the islands …