As she tells the Athens Agency, she did this selfless act in memory of her son, her husband, but also her father
An 83-year-old pensioner donated a fully equipped ambulance to Pieria’s EKAV today. The reason for Irini Paraskevopoulou Pamperis, who started the ambulance donation procedures, a year ago.
As she says, she did this selfless act in memory of her son who passed away at the age of 56 after a battle with an illness that he fought at the city hospital and at “Agios Dimitrios” in Thessaloniki, her husband, and of her father.
“I think they will bring him in” said Mrs. Maria visibly moved at the sight of her child’s name on the ambulance door.
As he explained the money for the donation came “from the blood of my father, who died in the last battle in February 1941 in Tepeleni trying to save another patriot”.
Then the Greek state gave 15 acres to the family but, as Mrs. Maria explained, “we didn’t bother, we considered it sacrilege.” However, when there was a forced expropriation for the construction of a highway, Mrs. Maria paid the lawyers “and I left the rest of the money in the bank”.
On the occasion of the donation, she said “if we catch one person, that’s enough” adding her thanks to the doctors in Thessaloniki and Katerini.
Source: Skai
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