(Translation
from Greek into English: Apokoumpi = last stud)
“We are
glad to remember yesterday… to go back to moments full of youth, strength and
beauty, and tell today’s youth about all the things we loved, those simple,
everyday things… of another time, our time”.
“And we do this through a journalistic step that is
given to us so that our voice may be heard…a voice that can speak, resist,
propose, compare, and above all express everyone and everything”.
“It is our undeniable right to show the flow of
history and through this to make you understand and respect us…We don’t ask for
your pity, we simply hope you will hear us…”
These are the words of our elderly about all the things they feel,
through which the magazine’s editorial team unfolds the thread of life and
combines the dream with reality. It’s about the bimonthly magazine Apokoumpi as
they call it, that talks about our traditions and the history of our region. It
refers to everything that connects us with the past, to the continuous passing
of the torch from one generation to the next.
Since September of 1991 Apokoumpi is
distributed free of charge to friends and institutions of the region. Its aim
is for the Annousakeio Therapeutic Centre to constitute an integral part of the
community by informing the public of its social activities and by publicizing
the voice of the elderly.
"As
long as we have a voice we will speak, about everything we have experienced and
are experiencing as members of this society, with the right to participate in
every aspect of society”.
