In 1924 AHEPA President VJ. Chebithes appealed to chapters to sponsor Greek orphans left homeless following the Asia Minor disaster of two years earlier. $5 a month was required to sponsor a child, and some AHEPA chapters sponsored as many as thirty.
As many as 30? Where did these Children end up? Is this where Mama Podesta got all those Children? Maybe yes Maybe no but why did they get so many at once? I would like to know what happened to some of those Children.
This is so horrible to even imagine. A whole island. We treat our young and old terribly. No respect or love for a human being. We are all God's Children.
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carmencita ago
http://www.district3ahepa.com/mydistrict/all-about-ahepa/
In 1924 AHEPA President VJ. Chebithes appealed to chapters to sponsor Greek orphans left homeless following the Asia Minor disaster of two years earlier. $5 a month was required to sponsor a child, and some AHEPA chapters sponsored as many as thirty.
As many as 30? Where did these Children end up? Is this where Mama Podesta got all those Children? Maybe yes Maybe no but why did they get so many at once? I would like to know what happened to some of those Children.
NOMOCHOMO ago
Interesting! I hadn't found AHEPA "helping" orphans until after WWII.
My guess is it's like Save the Children, where $$ "sponsors" the orphans still living in Greece orphanages.
Greece literally had a whole island devoted to orphans at one time. It was like Boystown, but even more of a slave labor camp.
carmencita ago
This is so horrible to even imagine. A whole island. We treat our young and old terribly. No respect or love for a human being. We are all God's Children.