CIVIL SOCIETY: 276 PRACTICES
Mission ANTHROPOS is a Greek nonprofit, Non Governmental Organisation, founded in 2010 with the aim to provide free and without discrimination medical support to vulnerable people, who do not have access to the NHS.
Read more: www.missionanthropos.com
Free provision of a full preventive women’s health checkup with blood and gynecological exams for vulnerable women 45 years of age and older, so as to support them to preserve their good health. The medical provisions include a full set of blood tests, PAP smear, bone density scan, digital mammography and breast ultrasound as well as medical assessment and consultation based on their tests’ results.
Women aged 45 years old and over, belonging to socially and or financially vulnerable groups, i.e. single mothers, unemployed women or women facing severe financial difficulties to cover for their basic needs, women from refugee, migrant or other minority backgrounds, women with disabilities etc. The program has benefited 200 vulnerable women so far and will continue its mission in Northern Greece.
The program has been implemented from February 2022 until December 2023, and is set to re-relaunch in September 2024.
Emphasizing on women’s prevention and empowerment, the organization designed the preventive health Program “Mission WOMAN 45+: We embrace her needs”, implemented until now in 2 separate phases, in order to cover specific medical needs of vulnerable women in need aged at least 45 years old.
Each phase of the program included the followings implementation stages:
so as the fundamental right to health could be ensured for each and every one of the benefited women.
Following the high impact of the program in these 2 years, as well as the increased incoming requests, it is to be expanded in 2024-2025 to cover the needs for more vulnerable women, especially women of Muslim minority background with inadequate, practically nonexistent, access to the healthcare system.
The program was implemented from February 2022 to March 2023 with the sponsorship of Metlen Energy and Metals (former MYTILINEOS Company) and from September to December 2023 with the support of John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation.
Within the framework of the program, a total of 985 Medical Procedures were performed to the 200 beneficiaries of the program. Specifically:
At the same time, 115 Medical Assessments were carried out for women who did not have access to a doctor.
According to the social impact study conducted using SROI methodology, the program 'Mission WOMAN 45+: We embrace her needs' presented an index ratio 3.24:1, meaning that every 1 € invested in the program, created 3.24€ of social value.
The assessment and results of the program have been revealing, showing that in the total of 200 beneficiaries 7 out of the 10 women skipped the needed preventive health checkup or had never visited a gynecologist before. The impact was huge in terms of prevention and health preservation, while at the same time the program has offered the beneficiaries great economic relief, psychosocial empowerment, boost of self-confidence and the feeling of security as well as self-engagement to improve their attitudes in prevention, health and life overall.
A few of the sayings beneficiaries shared with us:
The program has been implemented in Attica region and the island of Evia so far, soon to be expanded to Northern Greece as well.
The Program has been implemented in cooperation with the Social Services of 3 Municipalities and 7 NGOs. In specific, the program has benefitted vulnerable women from the following 10 Collaborating Partners:
All of the medical tests and assessments provided through the Program, have been conducted in collaboration with BIOIATRIKI Healthcare Group.
Day to day implementation and monitoring of the program has been conducted by the Program Manager with the assistance and overall supervision of the Programs’ Coordinator.
A close cooperation between the program manager and the staff of the Medical Provider, both in the headquarters and the relevant branches, as well as the person of contact in each partner organization, was necessary for the smooth implementation of the program.
The organization has benefitted through the:
