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A Need For Help A friendly visitor, a hug, a walk in the park…for most of us, these are life’s simple and common pleasures. We don’t often think about them, but we would miss them dearly if they were taken away. Children and young adults at Agios Nektarios Institution in Sidirokastro, Greece have seldom, if ever, known these everyday joys in life. High atop a hill in Sidirokastro sits the Agios Nektarios Institution. This Institution houses children and young adults born with a variety of mental and physical disabilities, ranging from simple physical impairments such as poor vision to more serious disabilities including severe mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy, and others. The conditions these young people are
forced to endure are unacceptable. Many of the residents spend their
entire life in a bed with no toys and often no sheets, blankets,
pillows, or other bedding. All the while, the more mobile residents
sit on the cement floor in the hallway throughout the day. The
residents of Agios Nektarios are provided no educational or
recreational programs of any kind. Their hygiene is inhumane at
best. Children are bathed once a week in the most inhumane manner.
Lacking dental care, their teeth rot and their gums bleed.
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