Clothing Drive For the Cretan Orphanage
Yours sincerely,
Xanthippi Gelasakis
PAA West Coast Youth Supervisor
Vice President World Council of Cretans
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2. Maria Stratoudakis socializes with the
locals.
3. (Left to right) Xanthippi Gelasakis, Maria
Stratoudakis, young man from village, and
Nick Stratoudakis.
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This year the PYA began a clothing drive to collect clothes for the less fortunate children in Kphth for the 'KENTRO
APOKATASTASHS ATOMWN ME EIDIKEZ ANAGKEZ', in Chania. This program targets boys and young men with
special needs, home needs and orphans.
In less than four months with help from our youth and adults of the PAA chapters we collected three large containers full of clothes. The Manos family opened their home and allowed us to ship and deliver all the clothes to their
residence. The containers where shipped by Kphth with Kronos International Shippers. Mr. Nick Mourikies took full
responsibility and donated the cost of shipment. A plaque was award to him during the PAA National Convention this
summer.
The containers arrived in Piraeus in the beginning of August then forwarded to Kphth. The containers where
shipped to Kamboi, Chania, the home of Xanthippi Gelasakis. With help from Maria and Nick Stratoudakis and the
local children from the village, we were able to sort through all the items. Sorting through the clothes took many days
because there were several items shipped that were not children's clothing. Those items were donated to a few different churches. Little girls clothing was also distributed to villages for those less fortunate.
Throughout the last few years I have had the pleasure of working with Mihali Kondastakis, a volunteer for the orphanage for many years. With his help we gave the children the clothes on August 14. A friend from the xorio was
kind enough to volunteer his time and help us load, unload, and deliver the container. Look at the pictures and you
can see the children’s excitement. Shortly afterwards the younger kids started looking through the clothes and taking
what they liked.
I look forward to sharing our upcoming projects, which will take place in Kphth next summer and here in the United
States. Details will be in the upcoming issues from Matthaio Daoutis, our newly elected PYA Philanthropic Chair, and
me. Thank you to the youth and the adults who took the time to represent the PYA and PAA in this wonderful philanthropic effort to make a difference.
1. Group photo at
the orphanage.
Front: Xanthippi
Gelasakis, Amalia
Mbasia Theodorakis, Maria Stratoudakis and Nick
Stratoudakis
Back: Mihalis
Kondastakis.
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4. Delighted children from the orphanage
help unload the clothes.
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