AHEPA Supreme President E. Chris Kaitson is proud to announce AHEPA’s most recent philanthropic endeavors – a contribution in excess of €138,000 to the AHEPA University Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece for the purchase of a new MRI machine, and allocations from the AHEPA Emergency Funds to various institutions across Greece under reconstruction following natural disasters last year.
The MRI funds, released by the AHEPA Board of Trustees, are part of AHEPA’s continued financial contributions to the AHEPA Hospital, a major 680-bed tertiary teaching hospital that serves thousands of patients annually. In desperate need of modernization, this gift comes courtesy of the Nancy Horton Estate, entrusted to AHEPA National Headquarters, which will help patients served by the hospital for years to come.
Complementing this exercise in philanthropy, funds collected from the AHEPA Emergency Fund were sent to AHEPA District 25 to finalize the purchase of several items destroyed in floods and fires last year.
A partial list of the items included the following:
- Primary School of Armenio, Thessaly: Classroom shading curtains – €1,100
- Larissa Nursing Home: Complete reconstruction of the perimeter fence – €3,100
- 3rd Primary School of Giannouli: Kitchen building – €2,200
- Tables for students to eat at – €2,200
- Chairs for the tables – €600
- New bookcases – €2,900
- Kindergarten of Giannouli, Thessaly: Renovation of the kindergarten students’ kitchen – €1,150
- One laptop – €509
Additionally, in collaboration with the brothers of AHEPA District 25, the hospital in Zakynthos made an urgent request for a set of chemotherapy chairs to begin its first chemotherapy treatments. The newly established unit required four special treatment chairs for patients to use during therapy, and AHEPA was honored to provide them.
AHEPA, through its philanthropic and charitable arm, the AHEPA Foundation, coordinated and fulfilled all of these needs. For donations to the AHEPA Foundation, the AHEPA Emergency fund or any other AHEPA fund, please visit: https://ahepa.org/donate/
E. Chris Kaitson
Supreme President