Mental health

If you are feeling tired and dreamy browsing photos from different tourist destinations, then you most likely have the Holiday Lack Syndrome.

This modern term describes a condition that is affecting more and more people around the world and is seriously threatening the physical and mental health.

Almost 12,500 refugee children have attended Greek public schools this year, according to a UNESCO annual report that was presented on Thursday at a special event at the Education Ministry in Athens.
"The total number of registered refugee students at Greek public schools at this moment amounts to around 12,480," said Deputy Education Minister Meropi Tzoufi.

The city of Athens and the non-profit organization, The HOME Project, signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to provide high-quality services for unaccompanied refugee children residing in Athens.

Linda Rottenberg, cofounder and CEO of Endeavor, a non-profit that focuses on boosting entrepreneurship, suffers from the quintessentially American bug of relentless optimism. It is easy to get carried away by her upbeat outlook, to forget the depressing resilience of the Greek crisis and to dare believe that anything is possible.  

As we shuffle toward elections in the familiar fog of scandals, insults, threats and lies, the picture of the real economy ought to wake politicians and citizens to the magnitude of the country's problems. Without investments, without substantial reforms, without solving chronic problems, the economy will not escape the quagmire. We may even slip back into recession.

The Education Ministry's regional director for the northern Aegean, Aristidis Kalargalis, is due on Thursday to meet with the prosecutor of Samos to explore ways to stop a group of local parents from keeping pupils out of school in protest at the admission of migrant and refugee children from the island's camps.

International Rescue Committee Voice Lena Headey is seen at the Moria camp on Lesvos on Tuesday. The "Game of Thrones" star urged EU leaders to find a solution to the crisis which has left thousands in limbo. "The situation seems to have reached a new peak of desperation," said Headey who last visited the island two years ago.

An analysis of all psychiatric hospitals, mental health centers and psychiatric wards, including the building stock and equipment, has been made and I have informed the Cabinet of their condition, Health Minister Kiril Ananiev told journalists at the Council of Ministers.
 

"My Athens Project" is a compilation of stories written by the children that live at shelters run by The  HOME Project in the Greek capital.

The idea for the project came about in the context of the international nonprofit organization's mission to integrate unaccompanied refugee children and young adults into Greek society.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias took to social media on Sunday to hit out at his critics, saying that foreign policy requires "a spirit of resistance, not subservience."

"Foreign policy requires pragmatism [and] realism, not fear," Kotzias tweeted.