SNF supports relief efforts following hurricanes in the Southeastern United States
In late September, Helene became the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Katrina, claiming more than 230 lives across six states, including Florida, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Particularly hard hit was western North Carolina, ordinarily far enough inland to avoid the brunt of hurricanes. Then, less than two weeks later, Milton, one of the most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the region, passed across Florida, affecting some of the same communities touched by Helene.
As it has in the wake of other natural disasters and humanitarian crises, SNF sought to respond swiftly by supporting organizations who know the needs on the ground in North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee through their longstanding presence in local communities and who have the capacity to act quickly. |
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Last week, we attended the premiere, as part of the New York Film Festival, of San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The vibrant San Juan Hill neighborhood was leveled in the 1950s to make way for the development of Lincoln Center, a legacy the cultural institution has been working to address with support from SNF.
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A conversation with Andreas Dracopoulos on access to health care
As part of the 80th Congress of the Hellenic Association of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (HAOST) recently held in Thessaloniki that spotlighted Greek Orthopedic surgeons in the Diaspora, SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos participated via live link in an interview focused on SNF’s grantmaking, its Global Health Initiative (GHI), and the importance of expanding access to health care. As part of the Congress, SNF received the HAOST Philanthropy & Philopatry Award.
Find out more about the interview and the award |
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Upgrading the services the 251 Air Force General Hospital provides the public
“The principle which guides us at SNF is ‘empowering humanity.’ And at 251 Air Force General Hospital, you honor this same principle and put it into practice every day…” As part of our Global Health Initiative (GHI), SNF supported upgrades at the 251 Air Force General Hospital in Athens. Senior Advisor to the SNF Board of Directors Vassilis Kaskarelis delivered remarks at a recent ceremony celebrating completion of the grant, which involved new equipment for five departments.
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Photo: Children of Spring
The Children of Spring bloom all year long with a new Day Center in Veria
With the inauguration of the second Children of Spring Day Center, this one in the northern Greek city of Veria, a dream of many years has now become a reality. The Center, which will host more than 50 people with disabilities from all over the prefecture, is the result of a collaborative effort, with significant support from SNF, local government, businesses, and private individuals.
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The SNF Running Team arrives just in time for the Athens Marathon!
Establishing an SNF Running Team open to all runners felt like a natural step, especially after years of organizing the SNF Nostos Run and SNF RUN: FIRST RUN at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in collaboration with Regeneration & Progress and the recent excitement of the SNF Bréal Cup Challenge on the popular Strava app.
Learn about the SNF Running Team |
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→ If you didn’t get a chance to buy the September issue of Shedia, we’ve made Andreas Dracopoulos’s interview available online! In it, he discusses the role of philanthropic foundations, the third sector, civil society, and the power of individuals to help create a kinder, fairer world. And don’t forget—each issue of Shedia is packed with fresh and interesting stories, and the October edition is hot off the press!
→ Watch a short video and read a story from AMREF Health Africa on the organization’s tireless efforts to reach more than 55,000 people with health essentials with support from SNF in the wake of flooding in Kenya. |
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SNAPSHOTS
In addition to its emergency relief efforts in Kenya, SNF also supports AMREF’s M(H)IND (Mental Health Integrated Development) project in South Sudan, which aims to improve the mental health of people living with psychological, neurological, and psychiatric conditions. The project also seeks to reduce stigma and build local capacity for care among community health workers and at primary care centers. AMREF staff recently visited a project site run by a local partner in in Greater Mundri, South Sudan.
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BY THE NUMBERS
When Cyclone Freddy, the most energetic cyclone ever recorded, hit Madagascar in 2023, it compounded existing effects of poverty, including malnutrition. With support from SNF, Pivot worked to identify and treat cases of acute and moderate malnutrition in children and train community health workers in the nine communes in Madagascar’s Ifanadiana District with the most worrisome rise in cases. |
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| trainers, including government staff, trained in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices, and they in turn trained all 403 of the district’s community health workers |
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| children screened, of whom 28% had moderate acute malnutrition and 6% had severely acute malnutrition; 1,506 children total were admitted to treatment |
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| community health sites in the district received the equipment and supplies needed to treat moderate acute malnutrition for a population of 18,000 children under 5 |
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