The Montreal Chapter of Daughters of Penelope, Meandros, held its Annual Women’s Appreciation Day event, honoring entrepreneur Roulla Kyriacou and donating $10K to the Socrates Educational Foundation.
The organization has embraced and supported a wide variety of projects over the years, on its own or as part of the Montreal AHEPA Family. The “Daughters” hold events to support various causes such as; hospitals, children with special needs, Hellenic schools, the Arthritis Society, individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s and many more.
In this year’s event, the organization honored Mrs. Roulla Kyriacou, a successful business woman who volunteered her time and dedicated her services in the Greek Community of Montreal. The beneficiary of this year’s event was the Socrates Educational Foundation whose mission is to provide financial support for the advancement of trilingual (French, English and Greek) education in schools of Socrates and Demosthenes thus sustaining and promoting Hellenic cultural heritage.
Mrs. Kyriacou’s initiation into the realm of volunteerism began with the Cypriot Association; she sat on the Socrates schools parents’ committee and spent six of the seven years as president. In the late 1990s Mrs. Kyriacou joined the Board of the Shield of Athena Family Services as part of the group spearheading the shelter.
In 2002 Roulla ran and was elected on the Board of Directors election of the Hellenic Community of Montreal.
“I ran because I wanted the (Socrates) schools to be there for my grandchildren and their children,” says Roulla Kyriacou.
Her quest was for more children to receive the trilingual education offered by Socrates, naturally this led her to the Socrates Educational Foundation.
When the crisis in Greece reached a critical state, the Magic Mission was formed in 2012, collecting food and clothing donations to send to four different children’s charities and an orphanage in Greece. Alongside her volunteerism, she has been able to run her businesses, raise her three children and enjoy her grandchildren.
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