The members of our theater group are not professional actors but individuals facing homelessness. They found the strength and took to the stage of the "STATHMOS" theater, offering the audience a journey of emotions and earning their applause.

With the help and guidance of professionals and volunteers from our organization, they were supported psychosocially, mobilized, trained, and through drama therapy, they firmly stepped onto the theatrical stage, developing their self-confidence. Through an opportunity for reintegration, they were offered a new perspective on life.

The performance was an atmospheric transition from darkness to light. Homelessness, after all, is exactly that. A constant struggle for redefinition. Orthodoxia, Christos, Christopher, Theodora, Dimitra, and Maria highlighted respect for diversity and made a statement of acceptance. Like the protagonist of the play, Molly, an independent woman, blind from birth, who seems to live happily in her darkness. However, her surroundings react. Her "wants" are not heard, pushing her to make a life decision to find her light again. Perhaps Molly Sweeney wasn't blind; maybe everyone else was. As the audience remarked after the end of the performance, "Molly's story is everyone's personal story. A journey with joys, reflections, smiles, and difficulties. An ode to everyone's personal struggle."

At the end of the performance, our organization and the members of the theater group honored the Mayor of Athens, Mr. Konstantinos Bakoyannis, for his support throughout this tremendous effort, which took shape amidst a pandemic. He stated that "culture undoubtedly constitutes a unique form of reintegration and deserves a huge bravo to the Equal Society and its theater group, who delivered life lessons to all of us."

Also honored was the General Secretary of Social Solidarity and Poverty Alleviation, Mr. George Stamatis, for his continuous support of the theater group and, in general, for the initiatives he undertakes to address the issue of homelessness. He stated that "today we admired precisely this dynamic evolution of these people."

Equal Society will continue to support our most vulnerable fellow citizens through its social structures and substantive field actions. In the coming days, it plans a series of on-site interventions (street work) with homeless and substance users, aiming to create an effective protection network for those in need.