Humanitarian Action for refugees
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Prolepsis Institute: Call for Humanitarian Aid
Greece is one of the Member States most impacted by the unprecedented refugee crisis facing Europe. According to UNHCR, more than 790,000 third country nationals have arrived in Greece in 2015. Prolepsis Institute responds to the emergency situation that has been created by the refugee flows and asylum seekers and undertakes action in camps and open accommodation structures with the aim of providing refugees with some relief.
The DIATROFI Program at the Christmas festival of 4moms.gr at the Piraeus Municipal Theatre
The DIATROFI Program participates at the Christmas festival for children organized by 4moms.gr at the forecourt of the Piraeus Municipal Theatre on December 20, at 11:00 a.m. with the support of the Municipality of Piraeus. Children can decorate the wish tree, make Christmas cards and enjoy singing and dancing with their favorite band “XANAZOO”.
The DIATROFI Program on ANT1’s TV show “Me Agapi” (With love)
Mari Kyriakou informs about the campaign “No More Hungry Children at School” and the need to support the program DIATROFI.
The Program DIATROFI is ongoing in remote and rural areas for the current school year
December 14, 2015, 50.000 meals free of charge offered to 1.030 students in 13 schools of vulnerable socio-economic areas in the regional units of Xanthi, Rodopi and Emathia will be distributed by the end of January 2016 under the project “Program on Food Aid and Promotion of Healthy Nutrition-DIATROFI: Implementation in remote and rural areas”.
Athens College Elementary School
Athens College Elementary School supports for a second consecutive year the DIATROFI Program and the campaign “No More Hungry Children at School”. With its kind support 5.107 sandwiches were distributed to students of schools participating in the Program.
Prolepsis Institute participating in the 6th Symposium of Working Groups of the Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society
Prolepsis Institute is presenting the National Dietary Guidelines at the 6th Symposium of the Working Groups of the Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society (HAS) that will take place on the 4th & 5th of December at Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens. Dr. Christine-Maria Kastorini, clinical dietician and nutritionist, will present on Friday the 4/12 at 11:00am the project Development and dissemination of the general and specialized National Dietary Guidelines “Ef Dia…Trofin ”.
The Hellenic Initiative supports the DIATROFI Program
We would like to thank The Hellenic Initiative (THI) for supporting the DIATROFI Program. With the grant offered by THI, 4 additional schools with 258 students will participate in the DIATROFI Program the current school year. At the same time, through the matching fund provided by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), grant donor of the program, another 6 schools with 783 students will also be included in the Program.