Signing a memorandum of cooperation between the municipality of Lavreotiki and AHEPA MARITIME

Creation of a Maritime Museum - Street naming - Promotion of the Gallery of Ancient Mines Offering a large amount of food to the citizens of the Municipality of Lavreotiki.

"Dance" offer and further upgrade of this historic city and well-known port of Attica by the Department AHEPA Hj-45 "ST. NICHOLAS MARITIME ”.

On 12/29/2021 the AHEPA MARITME Hj-45 "St 'Nicholas" offered 11 tons of food to 350 families of Lavrio and the wider Municipality of Lavreotiki and spent a day in the area from early in the

morning where the collection of items began until late in the afternoon where their distribution to the beneficiaries was completed. An extremely moving and unique moment where we proved in

practice what is the primary mission of our team, with a smile from these people rewarding us. Warm thanks, at this point, both to the companies that responded immediately to our call for food and to

many of our members for their kind sponsorships. Subsequently, the President of the Department Mr. Mattheos Dimitrios together with the Mayor of Lavreotiki Mr. Dimitris Loukas agreed to sign a

memorandum of cooperation which includes the following actions: The creation of a Naval Museum in a two-storey neoclassical building in the central square of Lavrio that will be granted by the

Municipality of Lavreotiki which will be renovated by our team as well as with the kind contribution of the Municipality, while will be equipped with a large number of naval exhibits offered by members

of our team and private donors who have already expressed their desire to contribute to the creation of this museum. The museum will be named AHEPA Maritime Chapter "St 'Nicholas" and will host

various cultural activities. The emergence of a Gallery of Ancient Mines, with the appropriate interventions by the Department AHEPA Hj-45 "St 'Nicholas Maritime", to make it safe and accessible to

citizens who want to know the underground wealth of historic Lavreotiki. Various actions and workshops that will follow which will aim at the promotion and promotion of the port of Lavrio and the

Municipality of Lavreotiki in general. Another main goal will be our effort to make the young people mainly of this historic Municipality to love the sea and why not many of them to follow the maritime

profession and become ambassadors in the promotion of shipping attracting more young people to career in our great Greek Shipping. Naming of a street in the city of Lavrio that will be named after

Department Hj-45. The majestic signing ceremony of the memorandum, the inauguration of the Naval Museum as well as the naming of the street will take place immediately after the completion of

the works and equipment of the museum in the spring of 2022 at a date to be announced later. The contribution to the synergies both with the Municipality of Lavreotiki and with other Municipalities

will be essential, with an impact on the society and further development of each Municipality starting from Lavrio where it can certainly be the ground for an important project. A great thank  to the

visionary mayor of Lavreotiki and friend Dimitris Loukas for his undivided contribution to the realization of this great project.