{"id":26048383,"date":"2019-12-16T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T09:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/solidarity-has-no-borders\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T01:32:00","slug":"solidarity-has-no-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/solidarity-has-no-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity has no borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/metadrasi_thi.jpg\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" class=\"wp-image-15820\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Poulakidas lives in the USA, but she follows the developments in her home country, Greece and is interested in actively contributing to support the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following her family tradition of offering to the community, she always strives to aid and support. Through &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehellenicinitiative.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Hellenic Initiative (\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03af\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03bd\u03ad\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03b1)\">The Hellenic Initiative<\/a>&#8221; (THI), she sought ways to be of assistance in Greece more effectively and to offer some of her personal time and have a first hand experience of the problems, challenges and efforts that are being made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to celebrate my birthday by doing something different and also meaningful&#8221;, she says. As THI has been cooperating with METAdrasi for years and supporting its work &#8211; especially the transit accommodation facilities for unaccompanied children in Lesvos and Samos &#8211; they recommended that she contacted us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer volunteered in our facility in Lesvos for the ten days she had in her disposal. As she states: &#8220;Ten days is not a long time, but it was an opportunity to better understand the truly dire situation [&#8230;]. I am grateful to THI and METAdrasi for that opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On our part, we wholeheartedly thank Jennifer and THI!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may read the full text, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehellenicinitiative.org\/2019\/12\/10\/thi-gave-jennifer-poulakidas-an-opportunity-to-give-and-a-chance-to-receive\/?fbclid=IwAR1ksVQIADxy1bHAOtUnUTfSFl9lwb2R51f0gn6d8Mkj0Ye3-pT488dNEVo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03af\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03bd\u03ad\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03b1)\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Poulakidas lives in the USA, but she follows the developments in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":388924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,126],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26048383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-press-room-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26048383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26048383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26048383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26048383"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26048383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}