March 29, 2017
Tourism
The Greek government expands the airport levy of 12 euros for flights departing from Greece to all airports including the regional airports. The levy will start to be imposed after the operation date of the 14 regional airport and until November 1st 2024. After this date, the levy will be …
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March 24, 2017
Refugees
A boat carrying 22 refugees has capsized near the Kuşadası district of Turkey’s Aydın province on Friday. Search and rescue teams have rescued eight people. They have initially found 11 bodies. The remaining three are reportedly still missing. According to latest information, the number of dead has increased to 12. …
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March 21, 2017
World
After six years of conflict in Syria, the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) organization is urging for the continuation of support for programs to meet the needs of Syrian children and adolescents. Food insecurity, lack of access to education, trauma, no perspective… The IOCC is urging continued support for programs …
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March 15, 2017
Social, Society
In crisis-hit Greece, some people suffer silently. In the empty four walls of their homes, isolated from the society, the poverty victims feel the pain of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Their plight is revealed the moment things have reached bottom. The drama of a family was exposed when one of …
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March 13, 2017
Social, Society
Greece will impose fines of up to €1,500 people smoking in cars when children below 12 years old are present. According to a circular issued by the Health Minister Andreas Xanthos on Monday, the ban refers to cigarettes and all tobacco products as well as to electronic cigarettes and herbal …
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March 1, 2017
Lifestyle
Childhood memories revived when I watched short live stream from Serres in Northern Greece this morning. Children in traditional dresses with a red pom pom on white headscarf were singing the Spring Carols. On their wrists all children wore Martis, the bracelet made of red and white string. The name …
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February 22, 2017
Politics, Refugees, Very Mix
Greek police say they have arrested a 52-year-old French man on suspicion of sexually abusing four Pakistani boys he had sheltered in his home in the northern city of Thessaloniki. Police said Wednesday the man was arrested Tuesday. He allegedly abused the boys, aged 14-17, in January after offering them …
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January 20, 2017
Society
Greek police located the parents of the two toddlers and one baby who are found abandoned in a street in Patras four days ago. According to Greek media, it was the 20-year-old mother who abandoned the two toddlers and the baby on an street. A couple of weeks ago, the …
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January 18, 2017
Society
An unbelievable story that caused sensation across Greece! Two toddlers and one baby have been found abandoned in a central road of Patras north-western Peloponnese. A citizen walking in the area found the three girls roaming around without the company of an adult. The older child was holding the baby …
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November 2, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Two refugee children were suffered burn injuries when a fire broke out the family tent in a reception center in Oraiokastro by Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The two children, an 8-year-old boy and an 9-year-old girl were taken to two different hospitals in Thessaloniki. The condition of the girl is …
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October 24, 2016
Society
230,000 children live in households without any income and 39.9% of Greece’s population cannot afford basic goods and services, like food and heating. According to the latest report published by the Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) 39.9% of the population lacks basic material goods and services, such as food and heating. …
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July 13, 2016
Very Mix
A girl, estimated between 4 and 6 years old, another child, a man and a woman were pulled dead from the sea area east off the island of Lesvos after a boat carrying refugees capsized. The plastic dingy had left the Turkish coast with eleven refugees on board. The shipwreck …
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July 6, 2016
Society
And when you think, you’ve seen and heard everything possible and impossible in Greece of austerity and crisis… there comes this incredible human story: a family of five lives in carton boxes. In the city of Patras in western Greece. The family ended up on the streets after a labor …
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April 10, 2016
Politics
At least 260 migrants were hurt on Sunday when police fired tear gas at crowds of people as they tried to break through the Greece-Macedonia border, medical charity MSF said. “Two hundred people were treated by our medical unit for breathing problems, 30 for wounds caused by plastic bullets and …
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April 10, 2016
Politics, Refugees
There has never happened before: that police of one country fires teargas on the soil of another country. FYROM police made extensive use of teargas and sound flares against refugees and migrants who are on Greece’s soil. The clashes started when a big crowd of refugees moved to the fence, …
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March 15, 2016
Very Mix
An 8-year-old refugee boy was diagnosed to have been infected with Hepatitis A virus. The child was staying outdoors at the port of Piraeus. The boy was transferred to a Children’s Hospital in Athens on Sunday. Together with his family, the child was staying at the premises of the port …
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February 18, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Unbelievable and very cruel, if true! Syrian refugees claim that a Turkish coast guard vessel took several children from a boat where they were together with their parents and took them back to Turkey. Furthermore, that the coastguard officer attempted to sink the boat while it was sailing in Turkish …
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January 22, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
At least, 21 people have died in two separate boat wreckage that occurred during the night in the Aegean Sea. According to the Greek Coast Guard, a wooden boat carrying 48 people from Turkey to Greece sank off the island of Farmakonisi. The cost guard rescued a little girl, forty …
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December 23, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Seven children, two women, four men did not fulfill their dream for a better life in Europe. they were drowned in the early morning hours of Wednesday, when their boat sank off the island of Farmakonisi in the eastern Aegean Sea. One person is still missing, while 15 people were …
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December 9, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
A wooden boat carrying refugees from Turkey to Greece capsized off the island of Farmakoni in the eastern Aegean Sea on Tuesday evening. The boat had reportedly 50 people on board. So far the bodies of 12 people have been recovered: six children, two women and four men. They were …
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