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Children’s Surgical Hospital, a new facility in Entebbe, Uganda, created through the efforts of Italian nonprofit EMERGENCY, began serving patients in April 2021. The first patients, Ramadhan, Topista, Justine, Katongole, Matovu, and Jordan, are between 3 and 11 years old and received treatment for a range of medical conditions.

Five people who have experienced homelessness talk about this social issue in the SNF DIALOGUES webcast.

Medusa, Hercules, and Daedalus will be your teachers in the newest educational resource on the Staellinika platform: a course on mythology for learners 8 and up.

Two exceptional Roman mosaics in Sparta are now on display for the public to enjoy. The House of the Mosaics, constructed through an initiative spearheaded by former Minister Ioannis Varvitsiotis and supported in full by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), is now welcoming visitors.

Why do rainbows curve? When we look closer, even the most familiar phenomenon or object proves to be a gateway to a spectrum of deeper questions, big and small. These questions form the basis of scientific inquiry, artistic exploration, and a new exhibit at We the Curious, an interactive science center in Bristol, England.

In the United States and Europe, childhood cancer survival rates generally top 80%, whereas in low- and middle-income countries, that rate can fall as low as 10%. With support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), World Child Cancer is working to provide access to services to diagnose and treat childhood cancers—and change these numbers—in Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone.

The University of Delaware Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration has announced the launch of a new pilot program designed to incubate the foundational skills and attitudes that allow civil discourse to flourish, through a major grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF): the SNF Ithaca Initiative.