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Elderly Greek Australian Donates Thousands to Hospital in Greece

An elderly Greek Australian woman has donated tens of thousands of euros to the hospital in Argostoli, Kefalonia, the place where she was born ninety-three years ago. Rubina Liosatou, who left Kefalonia for Australia sixty-five years ago, never forgot her...

Elderly Greek Couple Donate $100K to the Local Hospital

An elderly Greek couple in the northeastern town of Didymoteicho donated more than $100,000 to the local hospital in the most recent philanthropic gesture in the country. Last week it emerged that an 83-year-old Greek woman has offered her life...

Greek Grandma Sells Her Only Land Plot to Buy Ambulance for Her Town

An 83-year-old Greek woman retiree has sold a land plot to afford donating an ambulance to her local hospital in Missolonghi.

Pfizer’s Bourla Donates $1 Million to Holocaust Museum in Greece

Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla announced last week that he is donating his $1 million Genesis Prize towards establishing a holocaust museum in Thessaloniki, Greece. Dr. Bourla, 60, said he was donating the entire sum to the museum in his native...

Greece Donates More than 1.3 Million Covid Vaccines to Ethiopia

Greece donated 1,346,400 coronavirus vaccines to Ethiopia through a team of EU member states, the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on Wednesday. “Greece supports the people of Ethiopia in their efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic,” wrote the Ministry, adding...

Hellenic Initiative Donation Improves Lives of Children in Greece

The Hellenic Initiative (THI) - a global movement of the Greek Diaspora - donated an additional $30,000 to the child welfare organization in Greece ‘Mazi Gia to Pedi - Together for Children’ (TFC) this week. THI, which recently held its...

Ancient Greek Necropolis to be Revealed in New Exhibition Site

$4.8 million has been approved for an exhibition space showing the findings of an ancient Greek necropolis under the SNFCC.

Seven-Year-Old Greek Girl Flies to United States for Life-Saving Surgery

Anastasia Triantafyllaki, the seven-year-old Greek girl with brain cancer whose story moved the world, will now travel to Houston, Texas with her family in order to receive an experimental, potentially life-saving treatment. Her journey of hope began on Tuesday...

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Donate Blood Plasma to Help Fight COVID-19

After recovering from coronavirus in Australia in March, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been donating blood plasma to help fight COVID-19. Hanks is apparently back for another round of donation. Doctors and epidemiologists think that plasma and blood from...

Antetokounmpo Family Donates 10,000 Surgical Masks to Athens Suburb of Zografou

Basketball superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family have donated 10,000 surgical masks to Zografou, the suburb east of central Athens where he first playing basketball as a child. The Antetokounmpos made the generous donation to assist the local community of...