Diary

__**Diary of main events relating to the project:**__

 * 12 Oct 2010: Children's Ark UK provides the money to buy the "Roma Football" project children, 35 pairs of football boots!
 * 8 July 2010: Mass vaccination of the children at the settlement with the help of the Hellenic Red Cross and the paediatrician Margarita Bissy.
 * Article on the on-line newspaper STYX: [|This article is in Greek]
 * Maria Kratz-Larsen, the co-founder of Children's Ark- Greece being interviewed on the day of the mass vaccination of the children (8/7/2010) [|This Youtube video]is in Greek.
 * On Thursday 8/7/2010 a mass vaccination was made for the children in the Roma / Gypsy community in Examilia area a few miles outside Korinthos. The vaccination was an initiative taken by the Non Profit Organization Children’s Ark –Greece, in cooperation with the Hellenic Red Cross and the voluntary contribution of pediatrician Mrs. Margarita Bitsi. The outcome was positive. People showed up in masses and 130 children were vaccinated 188 vaccines were used up (since some kids got doubles). The local press was there and interviews were taken from the representatives of the Ark, the Red Cross and the local inhabitants. It was a good day for everyone there and the next vaccination is dated to the beginning of September 2010 and after that we hope to repeat the procedure monthly, at least until the problem with the basic vaccinations of these children is solved permanently.
 * 5 Apr 2010: Child-feeding barbeque at the Examilia settlement.
 * March 2010: Panos Fellas visits the Roma settlement in Examilia with a car load of clothes, books, shoes, food and medicines.
 * 8 Nov 2009: Opening of the new office of the project at Apostolou Pavou str 25 in Corinth.
 * June 2009: The CARE (Children's Ark Roma Education) project is launched at Examilia, near the Corinth canal in Greece. Founders of the project are Maria Kratz-Larsen and her husband Phillip Noer Larsen.
 * 2006: Maria Kratz-Larsen, interviewed back in 2006, talking about her plans to set up the CARE project at Examilia. [|This Youtube video of Maria] at the Examilia camp is mainly in English.

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Children's Ark UK is a non profit organisation set up by Panos Fellas in order to help the work carried out by the Children's Ark project in Examilia near Corinth in Greece. The organisation overseeing this project in Greece is called Children's Ark - Greece. The driving force behind this and many other projects is the [|Children's Ark Organization in Sweden.]

The project in Greece is currently enjoying the help of two volunteers from France through the European [|Youth in Action programme]

The main needs of this charity are financial and so we would like you to consider donating a minimum of £2 (more if you can afford it please) per month to the fund. All those who make this minimum monthly contribution are automatically eligible to become members of this charity if they so wish.

Occasionally we will collect clothes, shoes and other household items to deliver directly to the children in the project in Greece.


 * Please email me for more information: p.fellas@btinternet.com