A man who, according to preliminary information, was “crushed” by a robotic steel trash can in Alexandroupolis, died a terrible death. According to the Greek news outlet e-evros, a 40-year-old homeless man walked up to the dumpster of the new technology with the thought of “what to profit from.” However, the lid of the robotic […]
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Thessaloniki has created a body to protect against evictions
The creation of the Social and Affordable Housing Organization using the inactive building fund will provide vulnerable groups with a “roof over their heads,” said Maria Karayianni, President of MATH SA/AOTA and Deputy Mayor for Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, speaking at an extraordinary meeting of the municipal council on housing. According […]
Chania: young people paid for a homeless person for a hotel room
A group of young people from Chania raised money and booked a hotel room for a homeless person. An exemplary act of solidarity with the needy took place last Saturday, one of the coldest nights in Crete and in the country. According to reports, the young men approached the homeless person and took him to […]
Athens to offer homeless holiday dinners for Christmas
The municipality of Athens said Friday it will offer 1,200 holiday dinners every day – on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve – for the homeless and people living in homeless shelters run by the municipality or other social welfare agencies. Each meal will include a main course, snacks, Christmas sweets and soft drinks. The […]
Antivaxers “recruit” homeless people for vaccination on behalf of others
A 46-year-old bum was detained in western Athens for receiving the Covid-19 vaccine on behalf of others. He admitted that he had already received several doses of the vaccine and that he was paid 25 euros for each vaccination. The stranger was in the company of a woman who was traveling with him for vaccination. […]
Thrown out into the street when her husband died
Fate turned its back on a 62-year-old woman from Kallithea, for whom the recent tragic death of her husband, with whom she shared most of her life, is no longer the only problem and cause for grief. Effie Georgakaki in May, a few days after the death of a loved one from an incurable disease, […]