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THE Elias Giovanidis, the 24-year-old gypsy from Dendropotamos, who distributes food to the beneficiaries of the “Lighthouse of the World” is the voluntary what it means cheep της η Ursula von der Leyen.
The president of the Commission presented his actions as an example of solidarity, during the coronavirus pandemic.
“The crisis has been hard for some Europeans, but we can count on each other. In Thessaloniki, Elias volunteers at a food bank. With his equipment, he cooks and prepares meals for families in need. Together we will overcome this pandemic ”, says the President of the European Commission, uploading in her publication a video showing volunteers from Thessaloniki preparing and sharing meals.
“I warmly thank the President of the Commission for recognizing our efforts. This recognition pushes us further”, writes Elias Giovanidis in his own message, who has been close to the “Lighthouse of the World” and his father Athenagoras Loukataris since he was a child. little.
“I feel obliged to reciprocate the good they did to me and I have learned to be supportive,” Ilias Giovanidis, who grew up with Father Atenágoras and now has his own family with two children, told APE-MPE.
“Father Atenágoras is not only a priest, but a role model for me and he also worked like my father. He helped me to continue studying and is always by my side. For this reason, I also want to help those in need and, together with my wife, who contributes to the kitchen, and other volunteers from the “Faro” distribute food to those in need.
According to the 24-year-old, who works in a factory, he organizes food stores almost every day and after the distribution program for the beneficiaries comes out, he distributes the food.
“I try to participate as much as I can and especially on weekends when I have more time,” he characteristically says. However, he says he is “astonished” that the President of the Commission has commented on his initiative, but believes that “everyone should contribute to others and volunteering should be taken for granted.
The “Lighthouse of the World” and its activities began in 2004 in Dendropotamos by Father Athenagoras Loukataris and is an initiative of the Diocese of Naples and Stavroupolis.
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