{"id":12954,"date":"2026-06-26T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12954"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:11:00","slug":"she-lost-her-children-in-a-car-accident-and-donated-an-ambulance-to-the-patras-branch-of-eka%ce%b2-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12954","title":{"rendered":"She lost her children in a car accident and donated an ambulance to the Patras branch of EKA\u0392 (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"215\">87-year-old Charitini Anagnostopoulou, who lost her two children in a car accident, donated an ambulance worth 120,000 euros to EKAV .<\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"qd34p5\" data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"263\"><strong data-start=\"220\" data-end=\"263\">A Gift of Life &#8211; An act of profound humanity<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"265\" data-end=\"563\">A unique act <strong data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"298\">of generosity<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"316\">humanity<\/strong> was carried out by <strong data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"362\">Charitini Anagnostopoulou<\/strong>, who donated a state-of-the-art <b>mobile unit <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/asthenoforo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambulance<b><\/b> to the <strong data-start=\"447\" data-end=\"455\">EKAV<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"470\">Patras<\/strong>. According to information from <em data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"511\">thebest.gr<\/em>, the value of the donation amounts to <strong data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"562\">120,000 euros<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"565\" data-end=\"750\">The new <strong data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"600\">ambulance<\/strong> was handed over at a special event held at the facilities of <strong data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"657\">EKAV<\/strong>, in the presence of representatives of the <strong data-start=\"683\" data-end=\"710\">healthcare community<\/strong> of Patras and <strong data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"749\">Western Greece<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"1051\">During the ceremony, the president of <strong data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"805\">EKAV<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"807\" data-end=\"830\">George Charalambous<\/strong>, praised the donor\u2019s valuable contribution, while also acknowledging the contribution of the <strong data-start=\"909\" data-end=\"950\">Achaia Volunteer Firefighters Association<\/strong>, which provided <strong data-start=\"971\" data-end=\"997\">training equipment<\/strong> to enhance the training of <strong data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1050\">rescuers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed_media\" data-embed-provider=\"YouTube\">\n<div class=\"dp-youtube-video dp-embed-video\" data-embed=\"NRlXPr-EBKE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRlXPr-EBKE?feature=oembed\">\n<div class=\"play-button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"1osfzsh\" data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1107\"><strong data-start=\"1056\" data-end=\"1107\">From Personal Tragedy to a Gift of Life<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1109\" data-end=\"1316\">The donation by <strong data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1150\">Charitini Anagnostopoulou<\/strong> takes on even greater significance because of her personal story. In <strong data-start=\"1220\" data-end=\"1228\">1992<\/strong>, she lost her two children in <strong data-start=\"1256\" data-end=\"1277\">car accident<\/strong> on the <strong data-start=\"1283\" data-end=\"1315\">Patras \u2013 Corinth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1543\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Despite the unbearable pain of her loss, the <strong data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1369\">87-year-old<\/strong> chose to transform her personal tragedy into a great act of <strong data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1465\">social service<\/strong>, actively supporting the <strong data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1517\">public health system<\/strong> and the work of <strong data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1542\">EKAV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charitini Anagnostopoulou, 87, who lost her two children in a car accident, donated an ambulance worth 120,000 euros to the Patras branch of EKA\u0392.<br \/>\nA gift of life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}