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Education Ministry suspends free-meals for 185,000 pupils due to “bureaucratic problem”

March 1, 2021 FEATURED, Social 1

Τhousands of elementary school pupils are left without free meal, due to “a bureaucratic problem” as the Greek Education Ministry claimed. Τhe meals for 185,000 pupils are suspended “until further notice.” The principals of the school units included in the free-meal program were informed only on Friday, February 26, that …

Poll: 25% of Athens school children going hungry

February 12, 2015 Society 5

Thousands of Greek school children face one of the toughest aspects of the economic crisis: starvation and hunger. Last week, teachers complained for one more time about pupils who faint in the class room due to starvation. The issue of children going hungry was raised for one more time during …

145,000 Greek school children in need of free meals

January 16, 2014 Society Comments Off on 145,000 Greek school children in need of free meals

The economic collapse continues to threaten Greek households, with many families not being able to feed their children. Malnutrition reportedly affects more and more children, the number could be more than 100,000. According to daily Eleftheros Typos, 975 schools across the country have applied to be included into the program …

Athens: School Children To Get Free Meals – Thessaloniki: 500 Kids Go to School w/o Breakfast

January 31, 2012 Society 6

This is a Greek reality that officials could not turn a blind eye to. The fact that many families cannot properly feed their children anymore due to the strict austerity and devastating economic crisis. As the phenomenon of malnourished school children has been increasing, the Education Ministry decided to provide children with free snack-meals in 18 …

Greeks Queue For A Charity Free Meal

November 4, 2011 Economy, Society 3

Thousands Greeks queue day in, day out for a free meal, a slice of bread and a bottle of water at the soup kitchens organized by charity organisations. While until recently the majority of the needy queueing for free meals were homeless, drug addicts and illegal immigrants, the picture changed in …

Number of Greeks seeking charity free meals increased dramatically

April 22, 2011 Economy, Society Comments Off on Number of Greeks seeking charity free meals increased dramatically

A sharp increase in free meals demand by Greeks has been recorded by the Church in recent months. Father Chrysostomos Symeonidis from the Charitable Service of Church of Greece told news portal Capital that since last September the number of Greeks seeking free meals distributed by the Church has been dramatically increased. “While last year …

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