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Alexandra Mitsotaki is a Greek social entrepreneur. She is cofounder and president of the World Human Forum. In 2019 she launched the Convergences Greece Forum. She founded ActionAid Hellas [1] in 1998 and served as its chair until 2017. In this capacity, in 2014 she co-founded Greece's first microcredit institution, Action Finance Initiative ...
Since the 2015 European migrant crisis, Caritas Hellas has been heavily involved in providing humanitarian aid to people migrating to or through Greece. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Its initial response included the distribution of food, shoes, and hygiene items, while its longer-term efforts focused on providing psychosocial and translation support in the Kara ...
ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose stated primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide. [ 1 ] ActionAid is a federation of 45 country offices that works with communities, often via local partner organisations, on a range of development issues.
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece , by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [ 1 ] 2001, [ 2 ] 2011 [ 3 ] and 2021.
Argos (/ ˈ ɑːr ɡ ɒ s,-ɡ ə s /; Greek: Άργος; Ancient and Katharevousa: Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe. [2]
Larissa (/ l ə ˈ r ɪ s ə /; Greek: Λάρισα, Lárisa, pronounced ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 148,562 in the city proper, according to the 2021 census. [2] It is also capital of the Larissa regional unit.
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It is the fourth largest city in Greece with a municipal population of 179,302 (2021) [3] and 211,370 in its wider metropolitan area, [5] according to the 2011 census. The greater area of Heraklion has been continuously inhabited since at least 7000 BCE, making it one of the oldest inhabited regions in Europe.