People: Dust in the wind. That’s what we are. All that dust, all those grain of sands, they meet somewhere and they make their own history. Each one of us, with its own unique story

Oil Is Gold in Greece

Contact with nature and the land gives people strength and energy. The wealth of the land is a blessing and its seeds are its gifts. Helen Zotou was never interested in farm life. Her father was an ...

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The Greek Who Sent Olive Oil to Bill Gates, Mark Zoukerberg,and Jeff Bezos

  “Every business is like a child: first it crawls, then it  walks and finally it runs. However, everything grows if done with love, vision and high spirits.” That is the motto of philologist ...

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The “Mechanism” of the Olive Oil That Won First Prize

  Humanstories.gr was created to present stories of Greek people who, despite the crisis, do their best to make a new beginning…Moreover, despite the  negativity and bad news everywhere, they ...

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«Mama Maria» of Samos!

Samos was not ready to receive large numbers of refugees during the last year and a half from the coast of Turkey. Who was anyway? Greece was not ready as a country. A few people, however, were ...

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From the “Bleeding Strawberries” and Racism to the First Non-Greek Mayor

Life moves peacefully at the Mirsini, Peloponnese refugee camp. When I visited him, it was Ramazen and thus one did not see many adults during the day. One could see only children playing on the lawn ...

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From Afghanistan to the «ghost house» and then to Germany!

It was early June, when refugees had already been removed from Idomeni and the only remaining camps were in the EKO gas station, twenty kilometers behind. Several of the refugees who were in Idomeni ...

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A couple from Greece who keep their Honey in a luxurious packaging

A couple from Greece full of dreams, ambition and a vision for progress through the natural elements given to us daily in abundance in the “Greek paradise”. Nikos Vlachoudis, 31, and Rania Gaitanou, ...

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A “Wise Greece” who has shared 20.000 (and more than that) food portions!

No one withstands facing as a picture in his everyday life, or in general as a “frame of his life”, destitute co-citizens who are unable to satisfy their needs. How painful when they don’t even have ...

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International Gastronomy Critic and Ambassador of Greece on the Committee of Cooks without Borders

  When you sit with Hristos Gotsis you realize immediately that his endless love of cooking and the purity of his character are his dominant traits. He is vice president of Chefs Club in ...

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Disappointment on the Track Led to Success in Life

Thomas or Tom katsiantonis,  president  of  World  Interparliamentary  Union of Hellenism. He is from Ellasona and would not change his country for anything, even though he was born in New Hampshire. ...

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