I met Mrs. Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou from common acquaintances in August 2019 walking by our lake. She told me then, that she admired my book “Those who became one with the earth”, and she wished she had done it!
And she did! An oral history book about the personal and professional lives of 40 women living in Australia. Thirty are Greek Australian women and ten from other ethnicities. And it will be one of the actions to celebrate the 20 years of her social/community contribution through the establishment, in 2001, of the non-profit organisation Food for Thought Network, an inclusive Greek Australian Women’s Network aimed at the development and networking of Greek women and their non Greek friends. An action for which she has been honoured by the state of Victoria.