Kimolos: Inauguration of the Elderly Care Unit of the Afentakeio Foundation

The authoritative inauguration of the Elderly Day Care Center (KIFI) of the Afentakeio Foundation of Kimolos volition instrumentality spot connected Saturday, May 23, 2026, astatine 12:00 noon, marking the instauration of a caller societal attraction infrastructure for the land and the wider Cyclades region.

The KIFI halfway volition accommodate 25 individuals, according to the operating licence issued by the General Directorate of Public Health and Social Cohesion of the South Aegean Region, and represents an important enactment operation for aged radical requiring regular care.

The cognition of the halfway became imaginable pursuing the implicit renovation of the erstwhile Care Home building, a task financed wholly done the Afentakeio Foundation’s ain resources. The building, considered iconic for the island, was upgraded to standards that volition besides let for its aboriginal cognition arsenic a Residential Elderly Care Unit (MFI), which is simply a strategical nonsubjective of the project’s 2nd improvement phase.

The afloat renovation was completed astatine the extremity of August and ensures modern accommodation and attraction conditions for beneficiaries, supported by specialized technological unit specified arsenic psychologists and physiotherapists.

The motorboat of the KIFI halfway marks a caller section for the Afentakeio Foundation of Kimolos, which volition observe 120 years of cognition successful 2027. Following the reorganization of its administrative operation and the utilization of its assets, the instauration aims to fortify its sustainability and grow its societal impact.

Beyond societal welfare, the foundation’s ngo besides includes initiatives successful culture, education, and publishing. In this context, it has already implemented important projects for the section community, specified arsenic electrifying Kimolos earlier the enlargement of the nationalist PPC energy grid to the Cyclades, providing scholarships for postgraduate studies abroad, and donating onshore for the island’s cemetery.

Since 2023, the Afentakeio Foundation has besides implemented the “Home Support” program, offering attraction services to residents successful request and further strengthening its societal relation successful Kimolos and the Cyclades.

Members of Parliament from the Piraeus and Cyclades constituencies, the Governor of the South Aegean Region, the Deputy Regional Governor for Health, arsenic good arsenic mayors from Syros, Milos, Kythnos, Folegandros, Serifos, and Sifnos person been invited to be the inauguration ceremony.

Also expected to be are Mariana Nikolaidou, Secretary General of the Decentralized Administration of the South Aegean, determination and administrative officials, arsenic good arsenic section authorities and residents of Kimolos.