I met Tandem as a prospective chaperone for two people for a summer camp in Penteli (2009) and since then I became a member and part of it… and she became part of my identity. I went through the stage of volunteering, participating in the Board, coordinating the European Voluntary Service Programme (2014 – 2018), organizing activities and activities with children and young people, distance… and continuity! The journey within Tandem teaches me -still- the meaning of “together”, “working together” and the appreciation in the value of the Human being.

Evangelia is a graduate of the “Marketing & Advertising” department of the School of Management and Economics of the Athens University of Technology. For the last two years she has been attending two postgraduate programs: the Master’s degree in “Human Rights and Migration Studies” at the University of Macedonia and the Master’s degree in “Sociology”, direction “Social Exclusion and Human Rights” at the Panteion University of Athens.

As a member of Tandem, she contributes to the coordination of the volunteer team, the smooth operation of programs and actions in the field, the management of the organization’s bureaucratic issues, and much more!

Since 2025, she is officially the Legal Representative of the organization.

From the first time I visited and institution for children with disabilities as a volunteer back in 2000 until today, my involvement with mainly children but also with adults with disabilities and the effort to promote and support their rights has become my way of life. In 2007 we co-created our organization Tandem with the aim of employing and empowering children and young people living at the Voula Annex for the Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities (known as PIKPA Voula). The Tandem route is essentially for me a route of learning and discovering, sometimes with tiring hills that lead nowhere and sometimes with pleasant routes that reward effort!

Katerina is a graduate of TEFAA with a postgraduate degree in the inclusion of children with disabilities in physical education classes. She has worked in integration programs for people with mental disorders (PSYCHARGOS), as a European Voluntary Service Programme coordinator, youth worker and mentor of volunteers (Youth in Action Program), responsible for the design of educational inclusive programs. She has also volunteered in Greece and abroad. Since 2012 she is also involved in non-formal education where in cooperation with various institutions she trains school students and teachers, mainly on issues related to human rights.

As a member of Tandem, she contributes to the financial management, the design and implementation of NFE Trainings for the volunteer team, the sending of volunteers to programs through Erasmus Plus, the writing of funding proposals and much more!

I came into contact with the institutions and the reality of the children living in them as a camp counselor in the summer of 2005. Tandem was born in 2007 out of the need to systematize the offer to the children and young people living initially in the former PIKPA Voula and through the years in other child protection and chronically ill institutions. Since then I have been contributing as much as I can to the goals of the organization with the main goal of becoming as volunteers unnecessary for the system.

Patty is a graduate of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Athens and holds a Master’s degree in Special Education from the University of Athens. She has worked as a de-institutionalization program coordinator at the former Lechane KEPP in collaboration with Lumo and the Institute of Child Health. She has worked as a consultant on Child Protection and de-mineralization issues and was a member of the Board of the Social Welfare Centre of Attica from 2015 to 2019. She is a foster mother of disabled children.

As a member of Tandem, she contributes to the organization’s representation in child protection networks in Greece and abroad, to the creation of a network of sponsors, to the promotion of the institution of fostering disabled children and much more!.

I came in contact with Tandem as a prospective chaperone for two children with disabilities at the P.O.S.G.C.A.D.A. camp in the summer of 2016 and then came back as a volunteer in 2018. Although I had no contact with the disability field until then, my involvement with the organisation within the camp was enough to motivate me to get more actively involved and in the process change my way of thinking and living.

Katerina is a graduate of the Department of History – Archaeology of the University of Ioannina and has teaching skills in Greek Sign Language and Braille.From 2020 to 2024, she implemented the Tandem tutoring program, with the participation of approximately 20 teenagers residing at PAAPAB.

From 2024 to 2025, she worked as a Youth Worker-Coordinator of our volunteer team, and she continues to offer voluntary Greek lessons to the volunteers of the European Solidarity Corps program to this day.