Daily Archives: November 26, 2014

Rather than placing an emphasis on the continuity of population, Professor Melville-Jones leads us to rather think about the continuity of language and culture, which he says is separate to ethnicity.

Defining borders is a not only a geographical nightmare, but a cultural, religious and political problem.

Aside from the current tensions surrounding the territory of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Macedonia (northern Greece) directly underneath it, there is a lot to be said about the changing borders of the region in the ancient world.

Professor John Melville-Jones of the University of Western Australia says the ancient region of Macedonia was harder to defend unlike Australia whose land mass is surrounded by water.

“If you’re on a large island the sea is the best possible border and a wide river, and perhaps a very high mountain too,” Professor Melville-Jones tells Neos Kosmos.

“But if you’ve got undulating country or flat country, well your border is what you can defend. I mean, look at what’s going on in the world now, Ukraine for instance, what’s going to happen with the borders there?”

Professor Melville-Jones is due to present a lecture on ‘The Borders of Ancient Macedonia’ in Brisbane next week, and will cover the history of the region up until the year 1453.
According to the professor, one of the most plausible explanations regarding the origins of the ancient Macedonians was that they came from the Pindus Mountains. However, their whereabouts prior to that remains unknown.

They settled in a small area to the north-east of Mount Olympus sometime after 1000BC.

Despite their neighbours retaining parts of their own identity, the Macedonians proved to be stronger, absorbing a number of other groups and pushing others out of the region.

Although the ancient Macedonians did experience invasions, such as the Illyrians on the west, by the fourth century BC they had become a dominant power and the general trend was expansion under King Phillip II.

Alexander, Phillip II’s son, aided the seizure of the Persian Empire, yet following his death there was nobody left to take his place and further expand.

This led to Macedonia and its acquired territories being ruled by separate dynasties.

Following this, in the second century BC the Romans achieved something that was impossible for so many others.

By conquering the rest of Greece, the Macedonian borders became less fixed, varying as the Byzantine Empire succeeded the Romans.

This effectively turned the Greek-run Macedonia into an enlarged administrative district, fragmenting its ethnic identity.

Prior to the Roman invasion, FYROM’s capital of Skopje was not originally in Macedonia, Professor Melville-Jones explains, and was referred to by the
Romans as ‘Scupi’.

“It [Skopje] later became a part of the territory after the Romans enlarged the new province that they called Macedonia, which stretched all the way over to the Adriatic Sea,” says Professor Melville-Jones.

Due to this instability and change in the region, Professor Melville-Jones doesn’t believe the ancient Macedonians to be the same as today’s FYROM citizens.

“There’s no continuity anywhere in the world. I found out myself for instance, I always thought that I was Welsh because my parents were Welsh,” he tells Neos Kosmos.

“I never thought about it before but then I realised that only one of my grandparents came from a family that was completely Welsh and the other three grandparents all came from people that had moved from England to Wales.”

Rather than placing an emphasis on the continuity of population, he leads us to rather think about the continuity of language and culture, which he says is separate to ethnicity.

According to the professor, until Alexander the Great there wasn’t such a thing as the Greek language; rather, there were various dialects spoken around Greece. However, the Greek of Athens, known as Attic Greek, was the most developed, partly based on the literature of the time.

“So it [Attic Greek] was accepted by the Macedonian court as their high class language. There’s no doubt that Macedonian fits under one of the dialects of the Greek family,” he says.

The lecture to be presented next week will be the same lecture that was given in Melbourne earlier this year, and has Professor Melville-Jones prepared for a backlash.

Giving the lecture to a predominantly Greek-speaking audience, he was not surprised that by question time his lecture was somewhat overlooked and turned to issues of modern times and border security.

“When it came to questions afterwards, of course they were asking me about the modern situation and I felt no hesitation about telling them what I thought,” he says.

“It’s a terrible mess. But what got me involved was this trying to claim Phillip II and Alexander the Great, which is simply untrue. Their territory was never a part of the Kingdom of Alexander. See that’s what makes me go to war.”

The lecture will be supported by a PowerPoint presentation, showing maps and images of the region throughout the period.

Aside from the aforementioned lecture, the professor has been asked to contribute to the journal for the Australian Institute of Macedonian Studies. Due to its depth of subject matter, the article will be split into three instalments, with the first part covering the period up to the time just before Phillip II became King of Macedonia.

The lecture ‘The Borders of Ancient Macedonia’ will be given on Thursday 27 November at 7.30 pm at the Respite Centre, behind The Greek Club and the Greek Church of St George in Edmonstone Street, West End.

Father Themi

St Basil’s Greek Orthodox Church in Brunswick will rally behind Father Themi and his Orthodox Mission in Sierra Leone in the fight against Ebola.

The community will hold a free bazaar on the grounds of the Staley Street Church, with all proceeds being donated directly to the Orthodox Mission, currently facing one of its biggest challenges with a greater need for food and medical supplies.

According to the World Health Organisation, the Ebola virus has killed close to 5,000 people since breaking out in West Africa earlier this year.

To raise funds, there will be an array of bargains on offer at the bazaar, with everything from quality vintage clothing to books and toys; and if you don’t find
something in the market stalls that takes your fancy, there’s always the tasty Greek sweets and refreshments.

When: November 29 to 30, 11.00 am to 3.00 pm
Where: St Basil’s Greek Orthodox Church, 15 Staley Street, Brunswick.

source: Neos Kosmos

The conference will attempt to bring together radical or revisionist ideas about the position of Greece in the global world. Photo: Anthony McPhee.

The biannual Greek studies conference will be taking place at the University of Sydney, with the conference dedicated to the topic of ‘Un-framing Hellenism: Greek Culture After the Crisis’.

The conference will attempt to bring together radical or revisionist ideas about the position of Greece in the global world and discuss their underpinning philosophies. ‘Unframing Hellenism’ has as its purpose the de-stereotyping of Greek culture, the de-mythologisation of its current images and the reconstruction of its imaginative potential.

Light refreshments will also be offered at the conference.

When: 7-9 December
Where: Canessa Lecture Room, Madsen Building (entrance via King Street), University of Sydney
For more information visit http://sydney.edu.au/arts/modern_greek/about/events/index.shtml?id=1797

source: Neos Kosmos

Danae Florias with sister Marissa. Photo: Nine News Perth.

A Greek Australian woman says she was forced to carry her disabled sister off a Jetstar flight after the airline failed to produce her sister’s wheelchair upon arrival at Perth airport.

Danae Florias, 24, dragged her 26-year-old sister Marissa, who has cerebral palsy and requires her specially designed chair in order to sit up safely, after Jetstar flight attendants could only offer the airline’s generic wheelchair.

“Your wheelchair is no good to me, my sister can’t hold her body up, and needs her wheelchair designed for her specifically,” Ms Florias told the staff member.

“She just looked at me with a blank look, I just got no response whatsoever. By that time my sister was hysterical because she gets very anxious so easily and was like ‘oh my God they’ve lost my wheelchair’.”

Ms Florinas said she was left with no alternative than to carry her sister off the plane and through the arrivals hall where their mother was waiting for them.

“The look on my mum’s face was just like, absolutely shocked, because she couldn’t believe I had to drag my sister all the way inside. Then I had to dump my sister on my mum so I could go and find our suitcase and find the wheelchair,” she told Fairfax Media.

Ms Florinas says her sister has been scared to use any other mode of transport other than her wheelchair because she has had a fall before.

Ironically, Ms Florinas and her sister were sitting behind Jetstar CEO David Hall and even chatted to him, praising the airline for their helpful assistants in previous flights.

Mr Hall was not there to witness the ordeal, as the plane had emptied as the sisters were left waiting for their specific wheelchair to arrive.

Jetstar says they’ve been in contact with the family. In a written statement the company said: “We apologise to the family for the distress involved and we’re investigating how this occurred. Every year Jetstar carries 60,000 passengers with specific needs. These reports are concerning and do not reflect the normal flight experience of our disabled passengers.”

Source: Fairfax Media

Dr Denis Napthine contesting for another term.

As the 29 November state election draws closer, a consensus seems to be forming amongst commentators based on the available opinion polls that the Liberal-National coalition government is in some trouble. The polls are indicating that voters are re-aligning their support to the Labor opposition, presumably in response to the manner in which the Liberal Party in particular conducted itself as one of the major parties of government after its rather unexpected election victory in 2010.

If the theory of uniform swings holds (that is, if the polls are revealing a shift in alignments then it should be assumed this will occur across all electorates with the consequence being that those seats with the narrowest margins will be lost by the governing party) then Labor may be on track to win the election with a majority of perhaps nine seats. The problem, of course, is that theories and realities often do not match, and that, for all the bad polling and problems the party has had to deal with since coming to power in 2010, it is still very possible for the Coalition to win this election even if there was a big two-party swing to Labor.

What is more, the contest is not simply one between Labor and Liberal in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the regional cities of Geelong and Ballarat. In inner Melbourne Labor is being challenged by the Greens, with the state seat of Melbourne looking particularly vulnerable. Despite what the polls are saying, the 2014 election is going to be a very close affair.

Part of the reason for this is the comparative lack of marginal government seats in the current pendulum. Following the redistribution of electoral boundaries, the Liberal and National parties notionally hold 48 seats, of which five would be lost with uniform two-party swings to the Labor party of 1 per cent. This would give Labor the 45 seats that would give it a lower house majority provided it did not lose any inner city seats to the Greens. A swing of two per cent would result in 8 seats being transferred. Beyond that, Labor would need a two-party swing of more than two per cent, and even this would only add one or two seats to the Labor majority. Labor has its own marginal seats, of course, and any loss of these to the Liberals would make the final outcome very close indeed.

This is all based on the idea of a uniform swing. If the Liberal party was able to defend some of these marginal seats and pick up a marginal Labor seat such as Cranbourne, it could still win this election even if there was a big two party swing to Labor across the state. This is by no means beyond the realm of the possible. No-one has adequately accounted for why support for Labor collapsed as it did in 2010, but one of the features of that swing was how big the anti-Labor swing was in middle- to ultra-safe Labor districts (and, indeed, in Coalition strong-holds as well).

What could happen on 29 November is that these swings are cancelled out – in other words, the swing to Labor being detected in the polls occurs in very safe Labor and very safe Coalition seats but does not occur to the same extent in the marginal seats. If this happens, then the Coalition could just scrape home and the historical trend that there hasn’t been a one-term government in Victoria since the 1950s will be maintained.

Finally, a word on the election for the Legislative Council. There is a lot of static occurring over the potential for minor parties to win Upper House seats. If the cumulative vote for these ‘micro’ parties is more than 16.7 per cent in any Upper House region, then one of them will get a seat. Failing that, the most likely scenario is that Upper House seats will be won by the Labor, Liberal and National parties with the Greens probably winning three seats.

The real battle will be between Labor and Liberal for a seat in both Northern Metropolitan and Western Metropolitan. At the moment, the Coalition has a 1 seat majority in the Upper House. If the status quo is maintained, the Coalition will control the Upper House after 29 November. If Labor wins one seat from the Liberals, the numbers are tied. If Labor wins two seats, then the Greens will hold the balance of power. These are the two most likely outcomes, and Victorian parliamentary politics will have another four years of tense brinksmanship as a government tries to steer its legislative program through parliamentary chambers it may not necessarily control.

* Dr Nick Economou is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. He was also the Sir Robert Menzies Lecturer in Australian Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London University) between 1995 and 1996.

source: Neos Kosmos

Australia’s No1 Mo Bro, Nick Halkitis.

Movember isn’t just a fundraising effort for men’s health but an awareness-raising, month-long period which aims to convince men to look after themselves. Mo Bros have added a fun twist to their goal to “change the face of men’s health”. The Movember Foundation challenges men to grow moustaches during Movember.

Top on Australia’s leader board is a Greek Australian man, who managed to raise $29,160. Nick Halkitis, from Darwin NT, who runs a family construction supply company, has been a Mo Bro for five years now, religiously joining thousands of Aussie males as they mo up for November.

“Initially I can’t remember why I decided to take part in Movember the very first year, but gradually it’s become pretty clear, that sickness, whether it’s physical or mental, actually touches a lot of people, and with that in mind, I’ve kept it up ever since,” Mr Halkitis tells Neos Kosmos.

“It’s amazing when you start explaining why you’ve got a moustache and end up lecturing people about the Movember motive, trying to convince them to get a check-up, take care of themselves”.

Every year he tries to wear a different moustache; there’s literally a style-guide!

“This year I’m going by the o-Mo. Since year one, we’ve been tapping first place in the Northern Territory. Now we have been trying a little bit harder and entered the top ten of Australia. Three years ago we were on number three, last year we ranked number two. We are going to keep trying, not only for first place, but for the overall reason. For me it matters more what we can do together. Not just what I can do. I’m more than happy to motivate and discuss it with people, trying all the way, raising awareness,” he explained.

The broader community of Darwin has been surprisingly supportive, not just the Greeks – even though the Greek community is big here, placing Nick in first place nationally.

“I’m number one currently. We’ve still got a week to go. The reason we do get a lot of funding is the generosity of the Darwin people. We’ve been in business for a long time, over 50 years,” he said.

“I use all my email contacts, my friends and family, my clients. I email them twice during November. I send 800 messages a day. We put a great deal of effort in it. The Movember movement really motivates people.”

The Movember Foundation has, since 2004, run several Movember events to help fund programs in the areas of Awareness & Education, Living with Cancer, Research and Mental Health. The Movember community has raised more than $580 million, which is saving and improving the lives of men affected by prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health problems.

source: Neos Kosmos

Σε κατάσταση συναγερμού βρίσκονται οι τοπικές αρχές στην Ιεράπετρα για τη διαχείριση των περίπου 700 επιβατών του φορτηγού πλοίου Baris που εντοπίστηκε ακυβέρνητο να πλέει στα ανοιχτά σε διεθνή ύδατα νοτιοανατολικά της Κρήτης.

Η φρεγάτα «Ύδρα» του πολεμικού ναυτικού ρυμουλκεί το πλοίο, ενώ την επιχείρηση συντονίζει το αρχηγείο του Λιμενικού. Συναγερμός έχει σημάνει στις υπηρεσίες της Ιεράπετρας για τη φιλοξενία των εκατοντάδων μεταναστών.

Επίσης, σε συναγερμό έχουν τεθεί και οι υγειονομικές υπηρεσίες για την περίθαλψη όσων μεταναστών χρειασθεί και για την υποβολή τους σε ιατρικές εξετάσεις, ενώ λαμβάνονται όλα τα μέτρα, λόγω και του Έμπολα.

Η διαδικασία της ρυμούλκησης γίνεται κάτω από πολύ δύσκολες συνθήκες με ανέμους που αγγίζουν τα 7-8 μποφόρ.

Να σημειωθεί πως σύμφωνα με στρατιωτικές πηγές πάνω στο φορτηγό πλοίο εκτός από τους μετανάστες, υπάρχουν και οι δουλέμποροι οι οποίοι είναι ένοπλοι. Η πληροφορία αυτή έχει θέση σε συναγερμό και το Υπουργείο Εθνικής Άμυνας.

Ήδη στην Ιεράπετρα, το σύνολο των αστυνομικών, λιμενικών, δημοτικών, κοινωνικών και ιατρικών φορέων έχουν τεθεί σε κατάσταση συναγερμού προκειμένου να ετοιμάσουν όλα όσα χρειάζονται για την υποδοχή των μεταναστών, οι οποίοι και θα φιλοξενηθούν στο κλειστό γυμναστήριο του σταδίου της Ιεράπετρας.

Στο μεταξύ το βράδυ της Τρίτης μετέβη στο Ηράκλειο, ο Γενικός Γραμματέας Πολιτικής Προστασίας κ. Σεραφείμ Τσόκας προκειμένου να συντονίσει την όλη προσπάθεια για την υποδοχή και φιλοξενία των μεταναστών.

Απαραίτητος ο ιατρικός έλεγχος υπό τον φόβο ύπαρξης κρουσμάτων Έμπολα

Την ίδια ώρα και καθώς σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες οι μετανάστες προέρχονται από χώρες της Αφρικής, έχει σημάνει συναγερμός στις υγειονομικές υπηρεσίες οι οποίες, θα κληθούν να πραγματοποιήσουν όλους τους ενδεδειγμένους ελέγχους προκειμένου να αποκλειστεί το ενδεχόμενο υπαρξης κρούσματος Έμπολα μεταξύ των επιβατών του πλοίου.

Ο Διοικητής του Νοσοκομείου Ιεράπετρας ζήτησε ειδικές στολές και γάντια προκειμένου να δοθούν σε λιμενικούς, αστυνομικούς και γιατρούς οι οποίοι θα έρθουν σε επαφή με τους μετανάστες.

Εκπρόσωποι του Δήμου, του Λιμενικού αλλά και Νοσοκομείων του Λασιθίου πραγματοποίησαν σύσκεψη, προκειμένου πρώτον να συντονιστεί ο ιατρικός έλεγχος των μεταναστών.

Πηγή:madata.gr

Μόνο 2 έχουν υποβάλει αίτηση.

Για τις 18.000 διαθέσιμες θέσεις που υπάρχουν σε ολόκληρη τη χώρα έχει ήδη δημοσιευτεί προκήρυξη στην ιστοσελίδα του ΟΑΕΔ/EURES -και μάλιστα στα Ελληνικά- εδώ και δύο εβδομάδες. Και, όμως, μόλις 2 γιατροί έχουν κάνει αίτηση για δουλειά!

Φαίνεται πως, παρά τις απολαβές που κυμαίνονται γύρω στις 6.000 ευρώ για 37,5 ώρες εργασίας την εβδομάδα, τα μαθήματα Φινλανδικών που προσφέρονται δωρεάν στην Αθήνα και τις ευκολίες μετακόμισης και εγκατάστασης στη Φινλανδία, οι γιατροί και οι νοσηλευτές στην Ελλάδα της κρίσης προτιμούν… τον ήλιο και την οικογενειακή θαλπωρή από μία καριέρα σε δημόσιο νοσοκομείο σε άλλη χώρα της Ευρώπης…

«Έλληνες γιατροί και νοσηλευτές ζητούνται για την κάλυψη τουλάχιστον 18.000 διαθέσιμων θέσεων εργασίας μέχρι το έτος 2025. Οι Έλληνες γιατροί έχουν πολύ καλή φήμη στη Φινλανδία, όχι μόνο για τις καλές σπουδές τους, αλλά και για τον χαρακτήρα τους», εξηγεί στο «Έθνος» η Κίρσι Μέλβολα-Γεωργακαράκου της BBi Communication, που έχει αναλάβει εκ μέρους της φινλανδικής κυβέρνησης τη διαχείριση των αιτήσεων από την Ελλάδα. «Επειδή έζησα στην Αθήνα για πέντε χρόνια και εργαζόμουν σε γραφείο ευρέσεως εργασίας, όταν βγάζαμε τέτοιου τύπου προκήρυξη στην Ελλάδα, μέσα σε μία μέρα είχαμε 1.000 αιτήσεις! Μου έχει κάνει εντύπωση που εδώ και δύο εβδομάδες μόλις δύο άτομα έχουν ενδιαφερθεί για μία τόσο καλή θέση εργασίας», λέει.
Η προκήρυξη για τις 18.000 θέσεις γιατρών στη Φινλανδία έχει δημοσιευτεί στην ιστοσελίδα του ΟΑΕΔ/EURES. Πριν από την έναρξη του προγράμματος οι γιατροί θα γνωρίζουν το νοσοκομείο και την πόλη όπου θα εργαστούν.

Η εξήγηση σίγουρα δεν μπορεί να είναι μονοδιάστατη. Μπορεί κάποιοι να χρειάζονται περισσότερο χρόνο για να το σκεφτούν και άλλοι να προτιμούν τον ήλιο της Ελλάδας και να μην ενδιαφέρονται για νέα καριέρα στη Φινλανδία, παρόλο που η προκήρυξη αφορά μόνιμη θέση στο Δημόσιο με καλές απολαβές. «Μπορεί να μην έχει γίνει ακόμη γνωστή η προκήρυξη», λέει δίνοντας μια πιθανή εξήγηση για την απουσία ενδιαφέροντος η Κ. Μέλβολα.

Όπως σημειώνεται στην προκήρυξη, η πλήρης απασχόληση στη Φινλανδία είναι 37,5 ώρες την εβδομάδα (χωρίς μεσημεριανό διάλειμμα) ή 40 ώρες την εβδομάδα (με μεσημεριανό διάλειμμα). Ο μέσος βασικός μισθός για τους γιατρούς είναι 6.393€/μήνα. Οι συγκεκριμένοι μισθοί, βέβαια, προσαρμόζονται από την τοποθεσία και την ειδικότητά τους, όμως οι γιατροί δικαιούνται επιπρόσθετες αμοιβές κατά μέσο όρο 28% του βασικού μισθού τους.
Σύμφωνα με τις συλλογικές συμβάσεις για τους βασικούς μισθούς, οι μισθοί για νοσηλευτές είναι 1.935,44€/μήνα, αλλά ανεβαίνουν για επαγγελματία νοσοκόμο (2.236,42€) ή για προϊστάμενο (2.861,74€). Προβλέπονται πρόσθετες αμοιβές, κατά μέσον όρο 20%-30% πλέον του βασικού μισθού.

ΠΡΟΝΟΜΙΑ

«Τα προγράμματα, για τα οποία συνεργαζόμαστε με το δίκτυο EURES, πραγματοποιούνται στη χώρα προέλευσης. Για παράδειγμα, για ομάδα γιατρών στην Ελλάδα πραγματοποιούμε την εκπαίδευση στην Αθήνα. Πριν από την έναρξη του προγράμματος, οι γιατροί θα γνωρίζουν ήδη πού θα έχουν δουλειά στη Φινλανδία – ακόμη και το νοσοκομείο και την πόλη όπου θα εργαστούν. Δίνουν συνέντευξη στους νέους εργοδότες πριν γίνουν δεκτοί στο πρόγραμμα κι έτσι γνωρίζουν για τις αμοιβές τους και τις συνθήκες εργασίας που θα έχουν. Φυσικά το πρόγραμμα είναι δωρεάν για τους επιλεγέντες υποψηφίους» εξηγεί η Μαρίζα Κέρμαν, διευθύντρια της εταιρείας επικοινωνίας.
Το κόστος της εκπαίδευσης καλύπτεται από τον εργοδότη και προσφέρει στους επαγγελματίες την ευκαιρία να αποκτήσουν την απαιτούμενη επάρκεια στη γλώσσα, αλλά και γνώσεις διαπολιτισμικής επικοινωνίας πριν από την έναρξη των εργασιών στη Φινλανδία. Στα προγράμματα παρέχεται επίσης δωρεάν υποστήριξη για την εύρεση κατοικίας, για την απόκτηση άδειας άσκησης επαγγέλματος του επαγγελματία υγείας στη Φινλανδία και σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις ακόμη υποστήριξη για οικογενειακά θέματα (σχολεία για τα παιδιά) καθώς και διασύνδεση με τοπικά δίκτυα υποστήριξης.

ΚΙΡΣΙ ΜΕΛΒΟΛΑ-ΓΕΩΡΓΑΚΑΡΑΚΟΥ: ΠΕΡΙΜΕΝΟΥΜΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ

«Ζούσαμε και εργαζόμασταν στην Ελλάδα, αλλά μόλις ξέσπασε η κρίση αποφασίσαμε να μετακομίσουμε στη Φινλανδία». Η ιστορία της υπεύθυνης Επικοινωνίας του προγράμματος, Κίρσι Μέλβολα-Γεωργακαράκου, δεν διαφέρει πολύ από των γιατρών και των νοσηλευτών που θα θελήσουν να μεταναστεύσουν στη χώρα της.
«Ο άνδρας μου δεν γνώριζε τη γλώσσα στην αρχή. Ωστόσο, βρήκε δουλειά μέσα σε έξι μήνες ως βοηθός ερευνητής στο πανεπιστήμιο, στον τομέα των υπολογιστών. Εγώ εργάζομαι μισή εβδομάδα γιατί έχω μητρική άδεια. Είμαστε ικανοποιημένοι από τους μισθούς και την ποιότητα ζωής», μας λέει.
Θετικό πρόσημο βάζουν και άλλοι Έλληνες εργαζόμενοι στη Φινλανδία. «Οι συνθήκες εργασίας είναι πολύ καλές και η ποιότητα ζωής εξαιρετική. Η Φινλανδία είναι πανέμορφη. Εάν σκέφτεστε τις καιρικές συνθήκες, σκεφτείτε ότι μπορείτε να ζήσετε πραγματικά τις τέσσερις εποχές του χρόνου. Δεν υπάρχει κανένας λόγος για κάποιον επαγγελματία να μην έρθει εδώ», λένε η Μαρία Φωτιάδου και η Χριστίνα Βεσκούκη, που πήραν μέρος στο πρόγραμμα κατάρτισης της BBi, όταν μια ιδιωτική εταιρεία έκανε προσλήψεις νοσηλευτών από την Ελλάδα.

«Οι συνάδελφοί μου κι εγώ φτάσαμε τον Οκτώβριο και είμαστε ευγνώμονες για όλα», λέει η Χριστίνα. «Ανυπομονούμε να δεχθούμε και άλλους Έλληνες εδώ» προσθέτει η Μαρία.

Πηγή: Νέος Κόσμος