Tag Archives: poverty

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 …

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More than one-third of the Greek households are trapped and squeezed between poverty and debts as the disposable income dramatically decreased, a survey conducted in December 2014 found out. According to a the survey conducted by the Institute for Small Enterprises of the Greek Federation of Craftsmen and Merchants (IME-GSEBEE), …

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Squeezed between steering wheel, handbrake, door and dashboard, Katerina reads in her history book, takes notes for school. Next to her, on the driver’s seat, cat Eddy stares right in the camera lens. It may look like a cute snapshot on a sunny day, if it wasn’t for a sad …

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Poverty in austerity-hit Greece is a fact. According to the recently published EU data on Labor, incomes have dramatically decreased since 2010, since the country sought the ‘rescue’ via the International Monetary Fund. “Most affected by the income decrease are the vulnerable society groups. Real income in low income groups …

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Hundreds of property owners stood long lines outside banks on Tuesday morning in order to pay the new unified property tax ENFIA. The deadline for the first installment expires today. The majority of Greeks eager to meet their tax obligations are seniors who received their pension a day earlier. At …

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It was high time that the real data of the economic situation of the Greek society come to the surface! 2.5 million Greeks live below the line of relative poverty and another 3.8million people are at risk of poverty! A total of 6.3million people, which means more than half of …

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Everything was ready for the heart operation to begin: the patient’s chest was shaved, doctors and nurses were on alert. Then suddenly an clerk from the hospital accounts office walked in and ordered the doctors to stop the procedure because the patient was uninsured and had not provide a welfare …

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Four in ten Greek households have at least one unemployed member, one in three fears to lose its home, one in ten had to sell assets in order to pay obligations, one in three cannot pay utility bills and mortgage installments. The list of so-called “Greece’s  success story” is long …

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Everything was set for the traditional blessing the waters ceremony. Local officials had lined at the waterfront of Rhodes port and so had done the young divers in swimming suits – eager to jump into the cold sea and catch the cross. However, the moment the priest threw the cross …

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In a symbolic action, at least fourty parents from Volos, urged the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Parliament Speaker to adopt or foster their children. The members of the local association of families with three children in Almyros symbolically signed adoption papers agreeing that their children …

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Kouzilos family lives in the dark since one and a half years. The debt to Greek Public Power Company (DEH) amounts €1,900. Father Giorgos tried to make an arrangement with PCC ten days ago, but no solution was found with the local branch. His offer of 500 euro was not …

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Oxfam, the international charity organization founded in 1942 because of the famine in Greece,  finds it hard to believe that 70 years later, this same country “is in a terrible state.” Sharply criticizing the IMF- austerity programs, Oxfam said: “These policies were a failure: a medicine that sought to cure the …

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597,000 children in Greece are currently living in poverty. Almost half of them – 322,000 – lack the basic daily nutritional needs. This shocking numbers were revealed by Lambros Kanellopoulos, the President of UNICEF in Greece. “The situation is very worrying. The problems of poverty and social exclusion are increasing,” …

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Development is here to stay! Unemployment will be combated, jobless will get a bread loaf and a piece of cheese and the revenues-bringing tax called “emergency property levy” will continue as such and in some cases even retroactive. On Sunday night, Greek government passed a multi-bill paving the way for …

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Economic hardship – chronic sickness: one of the real plaques that hit thousands of Greek households suffering from income cuts, tax hikes, cuts in health care and welfare and increase in health care participation. According to a nationwide survey, one in four Greeks suffering from chronic illness have to cut …

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Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece top the list of the poorest countries among the 27-members of the European Union. According to a comparative survey conducted by the German Economic Institute (Wirtschaftsinstitut) in Cologne: Least poor citizens are in Scandinavian countries  Denmark, Sweden and Finland, but also in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Austria. …

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Poverty has no borders and scruple. A home owner in Patras, western Greece, was complete astonished to find out, his former tenants had used some of the doors of the house but also the doors of kitchen cupboards to feed their stove. Apparently because the tenants family had no money to …

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 The eight-year old boy had been eating just plain pasta cooked in pure water for the last days. That was the only meal the family could afford to offer its kids. The father without job, the mother working only a couple of days per month. On Thursday noon, the boy collapsed in front of …

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A European Union public opinion survey on the impact of the crisis and poverty revealed the sad realities in Greece. Conducted in December 2011, i.e. before the second bailout, the EU poll showed that Greeks secure a grim ‘championship’ among the people of the 27 members states when it comes to poverty …

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Greece is going from bad to worse. That’s no news, but when it comes summarized through the official data from the European Union it is really impressive.  In its querterly report on employment and the social situation in the opean Union, the European Commission states that 370,000 jobs were lost in the first three quarters …

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