UNICEF
Greece
UNICEF Setting Up Children Zone Near Greek-FYROM Border
UNICEF announced that it would set up a child-friendly zone in the area near the Greek-FYROM border for underage refugee and migrant children seeking asylum. Over the last weeks, thousands of asylum seekers have arrived at the border between...
Greece
Unicef: Dramatic Increase in Child Poverty
Child poverty is on the rise in Greece since 2008 and the crisis outbreak, while the average family income went 14 years back, in 1998 levels. The alarming figures emerged from a Unicef report entitled "Children of the Recession."
Child...
Greece
"Mommy, I Promise We Will Never Ask for Food Again!"
A heartbreaking and unfortunately real story of a little girl, who resides at a nursery in Kallithea, in Athens was in tears shouting "Mommy, take us home and we will never ask for food again!" She begs her mother...
Greece
Collaboration Between Unicef and Olympiacos F.C
Today, PAE Olympiakos and UNICEF announced their collaboration to immunize children in countries where there is an urgent need. Cooperation aims to raise money and awareness in Greece and worldwide.
The UNICEF's campaign titled "100% Campaign" is contributing to immunize...
Europe
The Pangs of Summer for Greek Hungry
The correspondent in Athens for the British newspaper Guardian, Helena Smith, wrote an extended article on the Greek food crisis. Frontline Charities report that up to 90% of families in the poorest neighborhoods rely on food banks and soup...
Europe
Greek Children Not Well Off, But Happy
The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, conducted a research among the 29 wealthier countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that shows Greek children rank 25th in well-being, but 5th in a happiness index.
The result...
Canada
Nana Mouskouri to Be Honored by McGill
Internationally acclaimed Greek singer and UNICEF ambassador Nana Mouskouri and Dr Barré-Sinoussi, the acting Director of the Regulation of Retro viral Infections Unit in the Department of Virology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, who shared the Nobel Prize...
Economy
Greece Seeks EU Milk Money For Students
Amid reports that many school children are going hungry, students will soon be able to join a European Union-subsidized program to provide milk to pupils on a daily basis, the newspaper Kathimerini reported.
Greek schools don’t provide lunches for students,...
World
Greece Gives 50,000 Euros To Syrian Children
Despite a crushing economic crisis, Greece has given 50,000 euros ($66,325) to UNICEF to help Syrian children at the Zaatari Refugee Camp, where many Syrians are being housed after fleeing the country's civil war.
Helping refugees, especially children, remains a...