Ready to welcome the students next Thursday are the 431 schools that were renovated during the summer through the Marietta Giannakou school buildings. The first phase of the program was presented today by the leadership of the Ministries of Infrastructure & Transport, and Education, Religions & Sports, at an event at the 89th TIF.
“Many when the program was announced could also be skeptical of whether this partnership between the public and the private sectors could be implemented. But I think we are already seeing the first results and it is a very important achievement that 431 schools will be ready with the start of this school year, thanks to the very important work done by the Ministry of Infrastructure’s building infrastructure, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry Infrastructure and Transport, Christos Dimas presenting the program.
“These synergies have an immediate impact on the daily lives of children and teachers,” he said, conveying his personal experience from the joy of teachers and students he received, visiting 29 of the schools, who joined the program.
Mr Dimas expressed particularly satisfaction with the extension of the program through additional donation from the four systemic banks, which in conjunction with the funding of 250m euros from the Public Investment Program, provides a total of “a very significant amount that will go to the renovation of thousands of schools”. He also emphasized that in Central Macedonia the Ministry of Infrastructure is also running for the construction of schools through public private sector partnerships (PPPs), stating that “additional 17 new schools-TA 16 in Thessaloniki-are built in 2025-27 ready to welcome students”.
Sofia Zacharaki: “We are here for every child, every teacher, wherever he was born and in whatever school he is studying.”
“We have to remind you what the power of synergy means and what this” together “means, which we definitely need,” said the Minister of Education, Religions and Sports, Sofia Zacharakis, referring to “unprecedented feeling, to visit a school that is to visit a school.”
Ms Zacharakis noted that she is receiving several messages from the school departments that have not yet been renovated and is in the next phase of implementation of the program, but also from schools in need of more structural changes. “Building infrastructures come and help when needed. So, with consistency and speed unprecedented, we proceed with constant strengthening and intensity of the effort. The new very generous boost by the four banks -Bank, Eurobank, National Bank, Piraeus Bank -along with the “marriage” of resources from the Public Investment Program, will bring us to a very pleasant position after four years we can have over 2500 schools. Of course, they are not only these, as new schools are being built throughout Greece, as are many of them made by regions through regional programs, “the Minister of Education said, explaining that this programming is part of” an umbrella of many activities, so that we are in a difficult time, If he was born and in whatever school he is studying. “
“All these six years, from all the projects done by the Ministry of Infrastructure – the bridges, the streets, the tunnels, the subway – there are a few things that stay in a child’s emotion and I really think that next week, on September 11, the kids who go to a refurbished school For the feeling of these children, their memories, “said Deputy Minister of Transport Konstantinos Kiranakis.
“Speaking of schools it is impossible to put a personal touch. It is the life of each of us, our childhood years and the lives of our children, “observed Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Nikos Tahaios. Speaking about the donation of the four systemic banks, he noted that “this sponsorship gives us the trigger to escape the logic of only big projects – from the great roads, the dams, works that have a volume of weight and influence on society – and to go to these small ones.”
Speaking on behalf of the administrations of the four systemic banks, EET President Gikas Chardouvelis said he was particularly excited that “such an important project, the renovation of 430 schools in every corner of Greece, was completed, giving thousands of children and teachers to start the most beautiful, and the opportunity to start the school.”
“The $ 100m donation made by the four big banks last year – Alpha Bank, Eurobank, National Bank and Piraeus Bank really got a place. This is something we all see in images of refurbished schools, which come from all over Greece. The real and invaluable value of this donation will be best seen next week, on the faces of the children themselves, “Mr Cardouvelis said, stressing that” the flagship sponsorship of the four banks in the Marietta Giannakou program is not a very accidental choice, of our country. “
In the second part of the event, local government officials were placed for the needs of the school housing and the importance of the “Marietta Giannakou” program. Specifically, the South Aegean Regional Governor and President of ENPE George Hatzimarkos, the Peloponnese Regional Governor Dimitris Pois, the Mayor of Ampelokipi- Menemeni and KEDE President Lazaros Kyrizoglou and the Mayor
The side of the beneficiaries of the “Marietta Giannakou” program was carried by the Director of the 29th Thessaloniki Primary School George Bitopoulos and the Director of the 1st GEL Epanomi Panagiotas Kazakis, while the technical part was spoken by the building infrastructure and the chairman Zisimopoulos ATE.
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