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Animals
Injured Baby Seal Rescued from Certain Death in Greece
Animal welfare activists in Greece saved an injured female baby seal that was unable to move and was stranded on Luggeri Beach of the island of Paros on Saturday.
Volunteers from the Paros Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) managed to rescue...
Environment
Greek Volunteers Form Human Chain to Stop Fire from Reaching Evia Village
About 40 volunteers are prepared to form a human chain to stop the fires from reaching Kamatriades village in northern Evia.
Armed with fire extinguishers, they are vigilantly waiting for the flames to reach Kamatriades, ready to battle with them,...
Greek News
Greek Influencers Use Social Media to Help Society
Dozens of young influencers in Greece, connected by a common vision for offering to society, have joined forces to create in the social media
films
The Mechanics of Philotimo: Volunteers Repair Cars Damaged in Floods
A group of Greek volunteer mechanics went to Evia fix vehicles that were heavily damaged in the flood in August of 2020.
Diaspora
Greek Nurses Volunteer to Travel from Crete to Thessaloniki to Battle Covid
Ten nurses are travelling from Crete to Thessaloniki on Wednesday, in order to voluntarily assist their medical colleagues in the fight against the coronavirus.
The Greek Minister of Health, Vasilis Kikilias, announced that nurses named Vasiliki, Olympia, Evangelia, Artemis, Katerina,...
Environment
Volunteers Collect More Than 13 Tons of Garbage from Greek Beaches
Over thirteen tons of garbage were collected from Greek beaches and the seabed in 145 separate cleaning operations between September and October 2019, the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) announced on Thursday.
The detritus was collected by a total of...
Greece
''Greece 2021'' Committee Calls on Citizens to Help Create Bicentennial Events (video)
The Organizing Committee of the ''Greece 2021'' Bicentennial which is tasked with preparing the list of events that will mark 200 years since the Greek War of Independence and the establishment of the modern Greek state, released its first...
Environment
Desperate Rescue of Trapped Birds on Frozen Lake Kastoria
Volunteers from the Kastoria Environmental Protection Society have been trying desperately over the last several days to rescue birds trapped in the ice of Kastoria's frozen lake.
Due to the extremely low temperatures experienced during the last week, Kastoria Lake froze...
Greece
Two Initiatives Bring Multi-language Books to Refugees
Two separate initiatives are in progress to help refugees fill the long hours of their day, by offering them multi-language books to read in their own languages.
One of them is Echo Refugee Library — a minivan fitted with shelves...
Greece
Meet the ‘Greeters’: Smiling Volunteers Assisting Tourists in Athens
They have sprung up on the streets of Athens, welcoming their guests. They are the "Greeters" and their moto is "May I help you?"
In the middle of summer, more than 100 volunteers are on foot in the Greek capital...