A lesson in solidarity and humanity from two Mitilini residents

George Kotopoulis, proprietor of a food shop, and his neighbour Prodromos Paterellis some work astatine the opening Ermou Street successful Mitilini.

A fewer days agone they came together to amusement solidarity and humanity to their stateless and disabled neighbour, Kostas, demonstrating a moving acquisition astir the request to support 1 another.

Kostas is simply a 70-year-old stateless antheral from Mitilini who, successful 2021, mislaid some of his legs from the pelvis down owed to a superior wellness complication.

He lives successful the shadiness of the entranceway to the closed historical café “Panellinion” and moves astir successful an aged manual wheelchair for his basal needs, which are covered by the solidarity shown to him by passers-by.

George Kotopoulis and Prodromos Paterellis purchased and talented Kostas a new, modern, automatic, lever-operated wheelchair so that helium could determination astir arsenic comfortably arsenic possible.

“I saw him each time crossed from my shop,” Kotopoulis told AMNA.

“He’s been present for three months. We talk and I spot however hard his regular beingness is. His hands are tied.”

The two neighbours talked it implicit and bought the wheelchair.

“His joyousness was indescribable. And that unsocial was capable for us to respire similar humans,” Paterellis said.

Kostas, present with his caller wheelchair, maintains his dignity.

Every time helium goes “to Blokia to bathe.”

Twice a week someone takes him successful so helium tin take attraction of himself arsenic champion helium can, but astatine nighttime helium is “a fistful of a man” connected the sidewalk successful beforehand of the Panellinion café.

“But wherever helium is, the rains will start. And it’s a shame that helium lives connected the street. The solidarity of his neighbours is not enough,” accidental those who stand by him.

As overmuch arsenic they can.