Members of the historic Athenians’ Society of New York will be carrying out a new mission to Greece to provide help for organisations suffering from the economic crisis.

“It will be our sixth trip to support agencies and persons in our country facing serious survival problems”, the Society’s president Panos Adamopoulos told the ANA-MPA, stressing that “till today, our Society has provided about forty thousand dollars.”

“A large segment of Greek society is experiencing tough daily conditions, while many agencies cannot continue their work any more. We hope that our effort, and those of other societies and organisations, will find more imitators in the Greek American community,” Adamopoulos noted, stressing that “it is now time to support Greece and its world. Overseas Greeks must stand by those who are in great need.”

He said that the Society would be making two gifts, one of a large-capacity boiler to the Athens Public Orphanage and a 20,000 U.S. dollar cheque to the organisation “Mazi gia to Paidi” (Together with the Child). Both gifts, collected through gifts to a campaign and a piano recital by Athena Adamopoulos at the Greek Consulate of New York, will be presented to each of the two charities on the same day, June 4, he said.