Marianna Vardinoyannis, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1999 and Founding member in 1990 and President of the Elpida Association of Friends of Children with Cancer, passed away on Monday, her family said in a posting on the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation page on Facebook.
Relatives and friends are by the side of the family of the young 25-year-old who fell into the sea to retrieve the Holy Cross, but was seriously injured in the neck, trying to give him courage. As it has become known, the young man and his father started from Drosia, Evia, for Amarynthos in order to throw the Holy Cross on their own because, according to information, they wanted to focus their prayers in this way to the young man's brother, who is suffering. from leukemia.
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Marianna Vardinoyannis was on Monday presented a recognition award by the New Library of Alexandria in celebration of the ten-year anniversary since the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies was founded in collaboration with the Vardinoyannis Foundation.