When Lockdown Rules Reach Mountain Meadows Pindus | May 2020 Myrto Papadopoulou For the shepherds of the Greek Pindus mountains, work never ceases – pandemic or not; yet even this small, isolated community has been rocked by the lockdown. Photographs and video by Myrto ...
For earth workers, COVID-19 meant smaller earnings but same cruel living conditions Peloponnese Region | May 2020 Alexia Tsagkari Along the Patras – Pyrgos National Highway, at a radius of about 5 kilometres around the village of Nea Manolada, the makeshift sheds out of thick plastic and cardboard can be hardly seen ...
What will this summer be like? MYKONOS | MAY 2020 Natasha Blatsiou Just before the country gets set at the start line for tourism, we travelled to Mykonos to discuss thoughts, forecasts and risks for the 2020 season, which is expected – according to what we ...
As Anxiety and Depression Soar, Greek Mental Health Professionals Come to the Rescue ATHENS | MAY 2020 Sarah Souli “Everything fell apart,” Alexia*, a 40-year old medical practitioner living in Athens, told me in mid-May. Two years ago, Alexia went through a divorce; over the last few months she nursed her father ...
Boarding the plane with Covid19 ATHENS | MAY 2020 Kostas Koukoumakas They were to travel to Thessaloniki, on Aegean’s first domestic flight after the lockdown of almost two months. On the morning of Monday, 18 May, travellers gathered in the departure lounge of ...
Back to school ATHENS | MAY 2020 Marianna Kakaounaki On the day the school gate was once again open for twelfth grade pupils, Theodora Panteliou woke up at dawn. Her two children, nine and twelve y.o., were still asleep and so was her husband, who was ...
For Victims of Domestic Abuse, Lockdown is Not Safe ATHENS | APRIL 2020 Sarah Souli On March 18, a week after Greece announced a closure on all schools in response to coronavirus, and just a few days before the official implementation of the lockdown, two women were gunned to death ...
After the applause ATHENS | APRIL 2020 Marianna Kakaounaki We leave our houses to protect our loved ones too, just like we do for you all!!
Women on the front-line of the new COVID-19 era ATHENS | APRIL 2020 Natasha Blatsiou From the very first days of the quarantine, two different worlds started to emerge.
Post-Coronavirus Employment in Greece ATHENS | APRIL 2020 Kostas Koukoumakas When the Covid-19 crisis is over, Greece will be a different country in terms of employment.