January 15, 2024
BOOKS, Culture
Thousands of books were stolen from the Bookstore of Homeless in downtown Athens, with the owners to estimate that over 8,000 books were taken. The books come mainly from donations by citizens and publishing houses and the revenues go to support the homeless people in the Greek capital. The theft …
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October 1, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
There is uproar among the hundreds of people who became homeless following the earthquake of 6 Richter on Crete, as the provisional shelters setting up are reportedly only for people who have been vaccinated against the Covid-19. According to local media,authorities are setting up shelters to accommodate earthquake victims in …
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September 29, 2021
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
Residents in Arkalochori and other villages in quake-stricken areas of Crete spent one more difficult night as the humanitarian aid rolls in with the speed of a snail. While many families have already moved to relatives in other areas, many could not. They remained in the destroyed villages and spend …
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September 27, 2021
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
The earthquake on the island of Crete on Monday morning has, so far, left behind one dead, twenty people injured, dozens of homeless, hundreds of damaged houses and businesses and damaged infrastructure. The powerful earthquake stroke with 6 R at 9:17 on Monday morning with its epicenter being very close …
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November 13, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Police in Chania, Crete, fined an elderly needy man with 300 euros for not wearing a mask. The man was on his way to a local soup kitchen and was holding the mask instead of wearing it as the lockdown rules provide. Together with his 66-year-old wife, the 61-year-old man …
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September 9, 2020
Refugees
Some 2,000 vulnerable refugees now homeless after the devastating fire in Moria camp, will be temporarily accommodated on board of a passenger ferry and two Navy landing ships, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis announce don Wednesday. The vessel, made available free of charge by the shipping company Blue Star …
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April 7, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
After the outcry over fines of 150 euros to homeless for “violating the lockdown restrictions” police in Thessaloniki has apparently decided to withdraw this absurd policy. According to NGO ARSIS that made the issue public, the Infringement Office of Police Directorate in Thessaloniki pledged that the fines imposed on homeless …
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April 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greek police works with extensive zeal in implementing the lockdown restrictions and fines those violating the measures aiming to contain the spread of the coronavirus. However, this zeal reaches also absurd levels as officer fine also homeless for not staying at they home they do not have. A first fine …
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January 20, 2020
Social
An elderly homeless man found a tragic death in a fire in an abandoned building where he had his saw mill years ago. The 70-year-old man was living inside the building and was receiving a poverty allowance of 100 euros, neighbors who supplied him also with food told media. The …
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November 28, 2019
Social
A happy ending for the elderly homeless couple that moved the Greek society. 83-year-old Philippos and his 84-year-old wife Eleni accepted the offer by the Municipality of Athens to temporarily move to a hostel for homeless people in the city center. Their decision to abandon their much beloved independence followed …
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June 16, 2019
Social
Without a job and homeless Leonidas Koursoumis never gave up his dream to build a new life. He established a secondhand bookstore run exclusively by homeless people in Athens. Relegated to the ranks of Greeks made homeless during the country’s economic crisis, one 70-year-old man reclaimed some of his past …
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July 30, 2018
Social
Athens Homeless help their fire-stricken fellowmen in East Attica. The volunteers groups of the Equal Society NGO has moved to the town of Rafina where a logistics center to distribute donated aid to the local population has been set up. The group consists mainly of homeless people, those who do …
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July 12, 2018
Social
The Ministry of Social Solidarity attempted to record the homeless population living in seven municipalities of Greece. In a survey conducted in collaboration with the Panteion University, the ministry captured the main demographic features of homeless people in Greece with the aim to create facilities for them in the future. …
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May 22, 2018
Social, Society
Police in Lamia managed to avert at the last minute the suicide of a 35-year-old man, who, desperate and intoxicated, went to the roof of a public building and threatened to jump. It was the police officer’s calmness and reflects that averted the suicide in the last minute, local media …
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February 20, 2018
Social, Society
Greek bureaucracy and lenders’ pressure can and do indeed often create grotesque situations. This happened also distributors of “Shedia” an Athens-based weekly magazine sold for the aim to help homeless people and socially isolated members of the Greek society. Ever since its establishment in 2010, the magazine has been sold …
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March 7, 2017
Society
Last night, a homeless woman started a fire in a public garbage bin in order to warm herself. However, authorities had little understanding for her plight and arrest her. The incident occurred in the heart of the city of Volos in Central Greece. The homeless started the fire in a …
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January 10, 2017
Very Mix
Unbelievable. But not surprise. The Shelter for Homeless run by the Athens Municipality threw homeless out in the coldest and snowy night in the Greek capital. On Tuesday night, the shelter closed its doors at 11 p.m. amid heavy snow fall and temperature below the freezing point. The denouncement was …
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December 30, 2016
Very Mix
This may be the coldest night of 2016. At 6:15 p.m. and the thermometer in my balcony proudly shows 3 degrees Celsius. Surviving a cold night it’s not a challenge only for the many households that cannot afford heating in times of economic crisis. It is especially tough for the …
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November 30, 2016
Society
A homeless had an original idea on how to protect himself from the polar cold sweeping through Greece. He thought that the police would provide hm with a roof over the head, a blanket and a warm meal. So what did he do? He broke into a vehicle parked in …
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October 27, 2016
Society
Unemployed. Two teenager children. Wife in hospital. No home. A life in times of economic crisis. A life on grimy poverty allowance of 620 euro every two months. A car turned into a bedroom for two. The crisis strikes without mercy. The car is parked in the parking slot of …
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