Greek Adoptees Return to Greece for Fifth Annual Reunion

A radical of Greek-born adoptees airs astatine Delphi astatine the Second Adoptee Reunion successful 2023. Credit: The Eftychia Project

Greek adoptees from crossed the USA and astir the globe volition caput to the onshore of their commencement connected October 11-17, 2026 for the Fifth Annual Greek Adoptee Reunion.

The lawsuit is hosted by the Eftychia Project, a nonprofit enactment that helps, escaped of charge, Greek adoptees searching for their roots and Greek families searching for their children mislaid to adoption.

To date, the Eftychia Project, which celebrated six years of work successful 2025, has facilitated the reconnections of 44 Greek adoptees and biologic families. All Greek adoptees crossed the globe and their spouses, partners, families and question buddies are invited to attend.

“We’ve planned an astonishing reunion, and we are truthful excited to instrumentality to our homeland,” says Eftychia Project President and Greek adoptee, Linda Carol Trotter. “Registration is open, and we’ve already had a brisk response, truthful we expect a large turnout this year.”

Greek adoptee reunions

Greek-born adoptees stitchery for the first-ever reunion successful beforehand of the Parthenon replica successful Nashville, USA successful 2022. Credit: The Eftychia Project

The 4 erstwhile highly palmy reunions were held successful Nashville, Tennessee successful 2022, Athens, Greece successful 2023, Louisville, KY successful 2024, and Las Vegas, Nevada successful 2025. This reunion volition travel the aforesaid nary conference, nary speakers format arsenic the erstwhile 2 reunions.

Attendees tin look guardant to a fabulous travel unneurotic crossed Northern Greece to immoderate of Greece’s astir iconic and historical sites, with plentifulness of clip for gathering and bonding with chap adoptees.

Adoptees to circuit cardinal and bluish Greece

“Our travel volition instrumentality america to Thessaloniki, Vergina, Meteora, Metsovo, Ioannina, Nafpaktos and Kalavryta,” relates Eftychia Project Vice-President, Panagiota Vrisiotis, “Our Greek Taverna Night meal connected the last nighttime of our reunions is ever a large hit. But 1 of the highlights of this reunion is an incredibly peculiar adoptee-related astonishment planned successful Corinth arsenic we caput backmost to Athens connected the past time of our trip.”

The reunion volition officially unfastened successful Athens with a peculiar invited enactment earlier heading to Thessaloniki by backstage centrifugal coach. The radical volition walk 2 nights successful Thessaloniki earlier journeying connected to Vergina, past Meteora, wherever they volition walk 1 nighttime successful Kalambaka and sojourn immoderate of the majestic monasteries there.

They volition past permission for Ioannina, stopping for luncheon and buying successful Metsovo. After a two-night enactment successful Ioannina, the adoptees volition halt successful Arta to spot the iconic bridge, past connected to Nafpaktos, wherever the Greek Taverna Night meal volition beryllium held. On the last time of the tour, the radical travels to Kalavryta to sojourn the WWII memorial and person luncheon astatine a section taverna.

A halt successful Corinth connected their mode backmost to Athens for that peculiar astonishment volition beryllium the finale of the trip. Attendees are encouraged to get immoderate days earlier the reunion oregon enactment immoderate days aft to sojourn biologic family, research Athens, oregon to spot much of Greece.

Registration accusation and implicit details tin beryllium recovered connected the Eftychia Project website astatine https://www.theeftychiaproject.org and the Facebook leafage astatine https://www.facebook.com/TheEftychiaProject. E-mail: [email protected].

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