EBEN 2020

AMBASSADORS CLUB OF EBEN BOOKLET 2020 33 DINNER OF LOVE A special walk of humanity at the city center Dinner of Love started its activity in 2014, as a private and self-financed initiative, with the aim of distributing food and basic necessities to our homeless fellow citizens in the wider area of the center of Athens and Piraeus. In 2019, we proceeded with the procedures of establishing a legal entity, with the establishment of the "DINNER OF LOVE Civil Non- Profit Company" which officially secures the aims of the initiative and enables individuals and companies to offer their support, making it possible for us to grow with even greater dynamic and more organized structure. Every Tuesday and Thursday night, volunteers collect food and basic necessities, which they either offer themselves or receive as a donation from companies and distribute to the homeless. The distribution starts at 21:00, visiting each beneficiary separately in "points" already mapped in the center of Athens and Piraeus. The effort gathered dozens of friends and supporters, and as a result today both the volunteers and the people we care for have significantly increased: Volunteers - Specifically, a total of 65 volunteers participate in the Team Beneficiaries - Our momentum currently covers the 320 beneficiaries on each of our excursions, every Tuesday & Thursday, thus more than 33,200 separate "distributions" per year Due to the pandemic crisis we have included on Saturday, distributing in 2020 additional 12,800 portions Business community participation: More than 200 company executives have participated in our action with their physical presence in a period of 6 months, before the pandemic. OUR VALUES - With these people we get to know our first names. Our action is based on interpersonal relationships, trust and substantial human interest. At “Dinner of Love”, these people are our people... OUR VISION - Expansion and evolution of the “Dinner of Love” and its functions, in the large population cities of Greece that have a problem with the homeless, including the formation of a Dinner of Love center, through which we will be able to become part of the solution to the problem. OUR GOAL - Through the development of targeted and interrelated programs, our goal is to contribute substantially to the solution of the problem, with the immediate relief and ideally the reintegration of these people.