Tag Archives: donations

This is an urgent appeal by the Pan Piraiki Initiative Group of volunteers assisting refugees and migrants arriving at the port of Piraeus on daily basis. Today, Monday, February 29th 2016, there are more than 2,000 people, children, women, men, elderly awaiting to leave for the borders. They cannot. FYROM …

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The Metropolitan Community Clinic in Athens, a charity providing uninsured patients and people without any resources with medical care, has a urgent need of donations for infants. In its latest call for donations the charity clinic needs: baby diapers (no 3, 4 and 5). Each month, the clinic helps approximately …

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After three failed attempts because of bad weather a small group of animal lovers arrived on Sunday on the Mountain of Parnitha to distribute dog food for the strays living there. The group brought 100 kilos of wet and dry food and left filling portions in several places so that …

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There were allegedly eight women standing next to the cash registers of several meat shops in Athens meat market Varvakeios located in the city’s center. They women wore neither a Christmas suit, nor anything else that could identify them. According to some “they were eight”, some others claimed “they were …

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Wood, heaters, stoves, a home to live in, a Christmas tree: desperate Greeks turn to newspapers and the internet to cover their needs. They appeal to the generosity of citizens in order to come through the cold days of winter or to find a roof over their heads. Truck driver …

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Potatoes, onions, rice, beans and fave beans, pasta, oil, vinegar, raki, rabbits, chicken and fresh eggs: baskets full of goodies. Collected by municipality workers  for the mother and mother-in-law of Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras. The protesting unionists had found an ironic way to respond to Stournaras who had claimed …

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There are times when the honest Greek wants to bang his head on the wall. Any wall. Made of any material (wood, iron, stone). Main thing is the wall is solid and can stand the head weight of a naturally born idiot. These times occur when one reads, about favoritism …

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As more and more Greeks find it hard to get a nutritious meal on their table, private initiatives manage the impossible. They provide families and persons with that what they cannot afford anymore: with food. One of the first initiatives established for this purpose is the non-profit organization BOROUME (“We …

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I am paralyzed. I am not able to recover from the shock: Giulia Philippoy-Corleone is not among us anymore. Giu – as her friends called her – was killed in a traffic accident on September 12th 2012 in Keratea, in the west of Athens. Her family and friends are now desperately seeking …

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One could claim the slogan of the charity campaign “F**k This – I’m Off to Greece” is not what it should be. Too rude? Too shocking? But that’s creativity, folks, no matter what. I personally think it is very original, it is for a good cause and thus for “Doctors …

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Cancer patients are in dire need of live-saving drugs as the health system in debt-ridden Greece collapses. Cancer-patients supporting NGOs, and pharmacists report of serious shortages of the expensive drugs against cancer due to a) public spending cuts b) reluctance of pharmacists to stock out of fear they won’t be paid …

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Members of Greece’s Pakistani community are seeking to raise money to send home the bodies of two Pakistani men who died last Friday while trying to save an elderly couple from a car trapped on a railway track in Kryoneri, north of Athens. Hamayun Anwar, 18, and Wakar Ahmed, 32, …

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Almost 5 million euros has been deposited in a bank account opened in May 2010 to collect donations to help pay off Greece’s debt, it was revealed on Thursday. The account was opened after a proposal by Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos in May 2010, when Greece asked the European Union …

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This is a dramatic situation in the Filokardi animal shelter of Karditsa in Central Greece. Heavy snow falls and torrential rains caused damages and flooded the shelter area. The animals’ houses are under water and the 130 dogs and cats, plus 20 puppies, have not an inch of dry soil to …

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Beer prices got incredible high due to latest VAT hikes at 23%. A half-liter tin can costs €1.38 at super-market and €1.80 at the kiosk. KTG refuses to pay these prices. But the blog that brings Greek realities to foreigners, dares to accept beer donations!  Damned be the beer craving after the latest VAT …

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