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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW YORK – Children worldwide will celebrate Make A Difference With Loukoumi Day on October 24 with a Virtual Good Deed Event followed by in person Good Deed car caravans in 10 cities around the globe.
Each year the Loukoumi Make A Difference Foundation, a 501c3 that teaches children to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others, unites 100,000 children to do good deeds. On Make A Difference with Loukoumi Day the Foundation annually hosts good deed bus trips in select cities, where children engage in good deed projects with their families throughout the day, but this year, due to the pandemic, The Loukoumi Foundation has reinvented its program.
The virtual event will feature good deed projects with Loukoumi Foundation partners St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Broadway musical Come From Away, Celebrity Chef Maria Loi, and the organization, 3 Wishes for Ruby's Residents, which fulfills wishes of nursing home residents. Eleven nursing homes have been selected to participate.
After the Virtual Event, children and their families will mobilize in 10 cities around the world to do additional socially distanced good deeds through the car caravans. These will include dropping off gifts from the wish lists to nursing homes. Children will also deliver food to homeless shelters. The food will be cooked during the virtual event as part of a cooking lesson with Chef Loi. Additional stops will include visits to animal shelters, soup kitchens, foster homes, etc.
“The Loukoumi Foundation’s mission of spreading kindness is as important as ever during these difficult times,” said Loukoumi Foundation President and Founder Nick Katsoris. “The pandemic has made us reinvent our program, but at the same time the virtual aspect of the day will permit us to unite more and more children, who through the good deed projects will certainly put smiles on a lot of faces around the world – something that is needed more than ever right now.”
Participating cities/areas include: New York; Boston, MA; Chicago/Deerfield, IL; Gander, Newfoundland, Canada; Washington, DC/Virginia; Puerto Rico; South Florida; Los Angeles, CA; Dallas, TX; Ann Arbor, MI; and virtually around the world.
To register for the Virtual Event Visit: https://www.mtaconnect.com/Loukoumi.
It should also be noted that the Virtual Mediterranean Tasting Event with Chef Maria Loi and Friends takes place on November 10 in support of the Loukoumi Feeds the Hungry initiative.
More information is available online: https://www.loukoumifoundation.org/.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.