They Offer Human Dignity through Cloth Remnants
I met her during the premiere of “Amphipolis Project.” She was one of the speakers who spoke about the role and function of KinSEp, which is known as the Social Partnership Business…
Sophia Haitidou, representative , inspirer and vice-president of kinSEp, meaning ‘’co-operate socially’’ Humans...
The «World Cyclist» Who Does Not Compress the Time of His Life
Who is the “world cyclist”? Who is this handsome and creative “crazy” person who wants to ride his superproduction bike all over the world spreading the value of fellowship and friendship because only then, sisters and brothers, will we be able to cope in these hard times…
We met colleague, ...
The Best Factory on Earth, inspired by a Woman!
If you have persistence and a great love for what you are doing, you can achieve anything…This is especially so if you are in the company of “MERAKI PEOPLE.” This venture is unlikely to fail, even if some insist it will. Greece, too, has shown that it has people with the minds to come up with ...
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 educator gymnast and her mother a nurse. She herself was a champion runner for the team Aris until ...
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 and owner of Modern School in Athens IoannisKampouri. He is also executive adviser for the firm ...
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 refuse to give up in making things better.
Three of these young people, Chris Koutsotasios and ...
«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 ready. They were born ready to help their fellow human beings and they helped save the honour of humanity ...
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 in front of the maisonette that hosted these families. Some of the children were jumping on a ...
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 had moved a few days before the evacuation, in the BP gas station area, located five hundred meters ...
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Fear, it is also a human feeling and everyone feels it. You cannot say that Christians are more afraid than the Muslims, or Europeans are afraid more than the Arabs. The fear of the different is a sensible and human feeling, as it is human to be influenced by stereotypes, labels and by the ...cover ...
