Paraskevas Selim: From the Mud of Dendropotamos in a Robotics Competition in New York

A different visit was received, today, at the Headquarters, o Deputy Minister of Interior, in charge of Macedonia and Thrace Mr. Stavros Kalafatis. With Father Athenagoras, the founder of the Lighthouse of the Worldfound in his office one young Roma, Paraskevas Selim, which, from «the upper side of the Thessaloniki ring road “as he says, found himself walking the streets of New York, participating in a Robotics team, for an international competition!

Mr. Kalafatis posted it story of Friday, but also the message that the young man conveys, speaking in schools of the country: «Today at the Governor’s Office, with Father Athenagoras and Paraskeva Selim, who is a living example for all of us. With stubbornness and patience he changed his future.

He needed, as he says, to learn letters. He saw children talking with their heads held high and, as he says, he admired them. So he decided to cross the ring road of Thessaloniki and, at the age of 16, to continue school from the 2nd grade, where he had left. There he learned about the Lighthouse of the World and the large family of the Lighthouse.

Finished Elementary, High School, Lyceum. From the mud of Dendropotamos he walked to the 52nd st. of New York, found himself in a trial simulation in the position of judge and spoke in the House of Adolescents, in the Greek Parliament … He declares that he is determined to change his place. I wish him from the bottom of my heart.
I keep his message: “There are no elusive dreams. Only people who have given up” …“, Posted the Deputy Minister of Interior.