The Open Door Centre –Therapeutic Swimming

The Hellenic Spastics Protection Society started in 1990 one of the first therapeutic swimming programs in Greece.

With our facility at the Open Door Center and following the systematic preparation and training of three Halliwick instructors and a lifeguard assistant, we started in 2008 again to offer people with cerebral palsy this program in the indoor pool of our Center. Read more

The first specialized unit for children suspected to be victims of abuse at the Children’s Hospital “P. & Α. Kyriakou”

The new “Sofi Varvitsioti” Care Unit for the Children’s Safety has started to operate at the 2nd Pediatric Clinic of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the Children’s Hospital “P. & A. Kyriakou”. The new unit is the first specialized hospital area for the examination and interdisciplinary treatment of children suspected to have been abused and/or neglected.

In the appropriately equipped area of the University of Athens, members of the new Unit are able to: Read more