THI Australia News

The Hellenic Initiative Australia will be supporting more than 2100 homeless and rough sleepers in Athens and Piraeus, over the next 12 months through an AU$35,000 grant to Emfasis Foundation. This is the third year that THI Australia is supporting the Mobile Support Units (MSU) – Mobilising Lives program, enabling Emfasis to continue providing critical […]

Working in Australia during the COVID-19 crisis has been an extraordinary experience for the five interns from Greece who are currently undertaking six-month placements through The Hellenic Initiative Australia’s Internship Program. Three aged care interns are working at St Basil’s Homes in Adelaide under strict lockdown and two finance graduates based at ANZ headquarters in […]

The Hellenic Initiative Australia (THI Australia) has announced a new collaboration with Doctors of the World Greece (MdM Greece) which will provide access to public health services for more than 2,800 disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Athens. The €54,000 grant to MdM Greece will support a 12-month program which begins next week at the Athens […]

The Hellenic Initiative Australia has committed $10,000 to Emfasis Foundation to support extra COVID-19 relief and safety measures being implemented to assist the homeless in Athens and Piraeus.  With homeless and vulnerable populations across the world facing even greater difficulties during lockdowns, frontline NGOs have had to adjust their operations to enable them to continue […]

More than 8000 children will benefit annually from upgraded paediatric facilities in the regional towns of Argos and Galatas, following an AU$30,000 grant from The Hellenic Initiative Australia to Pediatric Trauma Care (Pedtrauma). The specialist equipment purchased for the Paediatric Trauma Centre at the General Hospital of Argos and the Paediatric Clinic at the Health […]

Author & Chairman of Australians for the Return of the Parthenon Sculptures With a personal connection to Poros and Galatas spanning almost 50 years, philhellene David Hill was delighted to support Pedtrauma’s upgrade of children’s health facilities at the Health Centre of Galatas, though a designated gift to THI Australia. When did you first visit Greece? It was 1973. A mate from […]