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FOUNDER OF HEALTH RELIEF

In 1998, Mr. Athens founded and launched the Primary Health Care Initiative, a humanitarian relief effort aimed at restoring basic medical care to more than 800,000 Hellenes living in the former Soviet Union (Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan) and Albania.

This life-saving medical relief program has established and is operating three state-of-the-art health care centers and three medical mobile units in the Republic of Georgia, and a medical center and a visiting nurses program in Ukraine. Over 800,000 patient visits have been conducted with more than $37 million worth of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and other consumables having been distributed, thus far. A new clinic was opened in September 2001 in Alaverdi, Armenia and a state-of-the-art large medical center will be inaugurated in Mariupol, Ukraine in May 2003. In Albania, a medical center was opened in Georgoutsates in 2002 and a second one is being scheduled for Koritsa.

Even as one project begins to unfold, Mr. Athens is envisioning other major initiatives among Hellenes in the Diaspora. His latest undertaking was the pilot Hellenic Trade & Culture 2001, in Chicago, in cooperation with the World Trade Center Chicago, the Exporters Association of Northern Greece (SEVE), the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce and the Hellenic Center for Investments. In a novel way, this program combined business-to-business trade meetings enhanced by programs that celebrate Hellenic classic and modern culture. A new phase of the trade program is an arrangement with the Exporters Association to create a worldwide directory with details about Hellenic-owned and operated businesses in a format that facilitates development of links among them.

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