HIGHLIGHTS

• Supporting Maternal Health as an Individual Right and a Foundation for Thriving Communities
  More than 800 women around the world die each day of preventable causes connected to pregnancy and childbirth.
• Gathering Oral Histories as a Way to Connect in the Present and Leave a Legacy for the Future
  Humans are storytellers, and the stories we tell can help us understand our collective past, celebrate our individual experiences, and recognize our shared humanity.
• Cyclone Ianos Brings Setbacks and New Beginnings for Farmers in Central Greece
  In mid-September 2020, a Mediterranean cyclone appeared in Greece for the first time. Large swaths of the country, from the southern Ionian to the Sporades and Crete, were faced with heavy winds, torrential rain, and flooding.
• Unlocking Humanity’s Potential by Empowering Scholars around the World
  From the youngest children learning to read to older adults gaining new skills, access to education is essential.
• Do Υou Want to Hear A Story?
  Since prehistory, stories, shared in every possible format, have formed the basis of human communication.
• Meeting Food Need in Greece with Dignity
  When the lockdowns began in Greece a year ago, attention turned first, naturally, to the medical situation: COVID-19 patients, people on ventilators, the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines of the health crisis.
• Exploring Our Shared Humanity across the Millennia through Hellenic Studies
  Hellenic studies can offer a lens for understanding our globalized world, a window into how knowledge is created and debated, a cipher that helps us decode and contextualize the traces of Greek culture all around us.
• Varying Destinations, One Goal: Better Health for Better Quality of Life in Greece
  Greece’s human geography is as varied as its physical geography. Urban centers along the vast coastline, towns in the mountains, and tiny island villages. Promising young athletes, elderly folks on the island of Anafi, families running together, a woman in Prespes expecting her first child. But wherever they are and whoever they are, all deserve the resources to live a healthy life.
• A Dispatch from United World Schools: How UWS is Revitalizing Education in Cambodia and Nepal
  The Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the education sector, affecting the lives of 1.6 billion students globally.