“The lighthouse keepers”

“Dogs are our contact with paradise. They know neither malice nor envy nor discomfort.”
Milan Kundra, 1929-, Czech writer

From the big family of the “Faros tou kosmou” we could not miss our four-legged friends. Despite the lack of space and waiting for our new buildings, our house and yard are full of children’s voices and happy dogs.

The beginning was when the children of “Faros tou kosmou” began to bring home unprotected puppies who found themselves thrown into the street, condemned to death. There followed others who arrived home poorly, beaten, wounded, malnourished and with an urgent need for medical care.

We opened our arms to all our four-legged friends so that almost every child, almost every member of our family, has one and more, “Lighthouse keepers”

Apart from the great struggle we are doing to protect and save all the strays of the neighborhood, dogs work therapeutically for themselves as well.

A dog, which by its very nature is a social being, can offer unselfishly and generously love, joy and peace to a man and especially to a child. It has been observed that contact with dogs gives children a sense of responsibility towards a living organism, learns them to accept and give love, tenderness and care, to respect life and to calm. At the same time, it turns them away from the emptiness and from possible worries and sadness. Dogs help in the well-being of the body, in developing feelings of joy and give a rare lesson of life to everyone.

Hector, Dak, Carmen, Lucy, Rex, Pharos, Jupiter, Rumaeus and Argos are part of our family that grows up.