Leadership Excursion Makes First-ever Visit to Ikaria, Completes Cyprus Leg
Supreme President Hollister with Foreign Minister Christodoulides (left).
Under the leadership of Supreme President Carl R. Hollister, the annual AHEPA Family Leadership Excursion completed visits to Ikaria, Greece, and to the Republic of Cyprus this past week. The delegation has arrived in Athens for a final series of meetings and events.
In Cyprus, the delegation met with Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides (tweet), Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Overseas Cypriots Photis Photiou (tweet), and National Guard Chief Lieutenant General Ilias Leontaris. U.S.-Cyprus relations, energy exploration in Cyprus's exclusive economic zone, the status of the resumption of settlement talks, and humanitarian issues were discussion topics. The delegation also appreciated the hospitality of the Brothers of AHEPA District 27 (Cyprus) who hosted several dinner events for the group. photo gallery
With local community leaders in Ikaria.
In Ikaria, the ancestral home of Supreme President Hollister, the delegation met
Visiting an Ikarian village.
with the administration of Ikaria Prefectural General Hospital, located in Agios Kirikos, to learn more about the hospital's needs to serve the community. After receiving a presentation from the director of the hospital, Stamatis Kardasis, AHEPA pledged to provide assistance. Through AHEPA's public health assistance to Greece campaign, AHEPA has been able to team-up with partners to provide millions of dollars in aid to help address the medical supply shortage in Greece. The delegation also met with local community leaders and exchanged gifts of appreciation and visited the village of Past Supreme President V.I. Chebithes (1924-27; 1935-40). PSP Chebithes was responsible for AHEPA's major growth and expansion during the the Order's first decade, especially West of the Mississippi and eventually in every U.S. state, to meet with his family descendants. photo gallery
Coverage of Ikaria visit by Radio Ikaria 86.7
Recapping: $25,000 donated to Ecumenical Patriarchate, Halki Seminary
The Leadership Excursion kicked-off with a visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Theological School of Halki, April 30 to May 2. There, the AHEPA family presented His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with a $20,000 donation and Metropolitan Elpidophoros, dean of the Theological School of Halki, with a $5,000 donation. photo gallery
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Did You Know? AHEPA, through the AHEPA National Housing
Corp., is a leadingprovider of affordable housing for the elderly in the United States through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 202 Program for the Elderly. AHEPA's Housing Program has developed 95 affordable elderly housing communities, totaling 5,049 residential units, spanning 21 states.The Administration for Community Living just released its annual summary report on older Americans, 2017 Profile of Older Americans. Some stats:
Over the past 10 years, the population age 65 and over increased from 37.2 million in 2006 to 49.2 million in 2016 (a 33% increase) and is projected to almost double to 98 million in 2060.
The age 85 and over population is projected to more than double from 6.4 million in 2016 to 14.6 million in 2040 (a 129% increase).
About one in every seven, or 15.2%, of the population is an older American.
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