Elias Giovanidis, the 24-year-old Roma from Dendropotamos, who distributes food to the beneficiaries of the "Lighthouse of the World" is the volunteer to whom the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen referred to in her tweet, setting his actions as an example of solidarity for the coronavirus.
Fresh and packaged food was distributed to a Roma community at the Nomismatokopio (Treasury) by the city of Holargos on Friday, as part of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus pandemic to tightly-knit communities of Roma in Greece.
Authorities moved 16 Roma, residents of a community near Nea Smyrni in central Greece who were found infected with coronavirus, to a rehabilitation center in the city of Larissa on Saturday.
They are some of the 20 total confirmed cases in the Roma community, which was visited on Friday by a task force comprising Civil Defence Deputy Minister for Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias and Health Ministry spokesman on novel coronavirus Sotiris Tsiodras.