He passed away at the age of 93 Emilia Cambisione of the three grandmothers of Sicamniawhose photo in the summer of 2015 of them caring for a baby ashore, the baby of a Syrian refugee who had just landed, went around the world.

The photo was the reason for the nomination for it. Nobel Peace Prize 2016.

It should be noted that the three women continued to do the same for a long time, offering the refugees everything they could, while their village became the focus of a global refugee-humanitarian crisis.

Of the three grandmothers, the first n Maritza Mavrapidou he died in 2019 at the age of 92 and again in 2022. Efstratia Mavrapidou at the age of 96 years.

All three refugee children from Moshonisi in Asia Minor have become a symbol of the solidarity of the people of Lesbos with the hundreds of thousands of Syrians – the vast majority of them refugees – who spent two years 2015-2016 from opposite shores to the island.

The “Grandmothers of Lesvos” was visited and honored in November 2015 by the then President of the Republic. Prokopis Pavlopoulos a August 15, 2020 President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

“Why do you say bravo, my son? What have we done;” they told the Athens Macedonian News Agency on the day of the announcement of their candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize, in January 2016. When asked why they help refugees, grandmothers, Emilia Cambissi replied: “They are good children. Sometimes, tired with roads, they help me carry firewood for my stove.”

The funeral of Emilia Cambisi will take place on Monday, March 13, at 14:30 at the Sykamnyansky cemetery.

A memorial service will be served at the Panagia Mermaid in the port of Skala.

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