GEORGE & THELMA PARASKEVAIDES FOUNDATION | est. 1980
Children are the anchors
that hold the future to life.
Children are the anchors that hold the future to life.
WHO WE ARE
Pushing the boundaries of what's possible for children with serious
orthopedic conditions.
For over four decades, the George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation has helped improve the lives of over 3,900 children with severe orthopedic conditions.
This altruistic and highly meritorious accomplishment results from selfless monumental charitable efforts to send children and families in need to the world-renowned Shriners Hospital for Children to receive the highest standard of care and medical treatments.
The George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation was founded and established in 1980.
The George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation has contributed more than 15 million euros toward improving the lives of thousands of children with severe orthopedic conditions.
In the last 40 years, more than 3,900 children with serious orthopedic conditions have been treated at Shriners Hospitals with the support of the George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation.
The George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation organizes and sponsors annual visits to Cyprus by Shriners Doctors. These visits have helped examine and diagnose approximately 16,000 children.
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1980
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Є16M
financial support -
3,900
children helped -
16,000
examined
The George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation was founded and established in 1980.
The George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation has contributed more than 15 million euros toward improving the lives of thousands of children with severe orthopedic conditions.
In the last 40 years, more than 3,900 children with serious orthopedic conditions have been treated at Shriners Hospitals with the support of the George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation.
The George & Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation organizes and sponsors annual visits to Cyprus by Shriners Doctors. These visits have helped examine and diagnose approximately 16,000 children.
HISTORY
Our Esteemed Founders
Our founders, George and Thelma Paraskevaides, were highly respected philanthropists. Their lifelong charitable contributions positively impacted many lives in Cyprus, Greece, and the Middle East. Their altruistic vision, which was to provide help for those in need, led to the creation of the George and Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation.
OUR MISSION
Comprehensive orthopedic care for every child in need.
The Paraskevaides
Legacy
The Paraskevaides family ensures that the Foundation operates under its original benefactor’s ethos.
Accommodation
Provisions
Our Foundation aids children with housing and accommodations.
Transportation
Assistance
Where applicable, our Foundation covers treatment-related transport of families in extreme need.
Mental Health Support
We provide experienced mental-health support by a team of dedicated professionals throughout the entire medical journey.
The Paraskevaides
Legacy
The Paraskevaides family ensures that the Foundation operates under its original benefactors ethos.
Accommodation
Provisions
Our Foundation aids children with housing and accommodations.
Transportation
Assistance
Our Foundation covers all treatment-related transport to and from Shriners Hospitals.
Mental Health Support
We provide experienced mental-health support by a team of dedicated professionals throughout the entire medical journey.
Ermolia Today
Shriners Springfield Massachusetts Hospital is my second home. The first time I visited was at the age of two, and every year I have kept on going until I reached 18 years of age. Initially, I started going for treatments and splints, and then for surgeries.
Words cannot adequately express the gratitude and love I have for the entire medical team which includes the nursing, as well as administrative and secretarial staff of the hospital. Each and every staff member knows how to behave with patients and treat a child and its family. They make every effort to ensure the patient journey is a positive experience. No other hospital I have visited has had such an interest in the physical, emotional, mental and family condition of a child.
Always wearing their brightest smile, the employees do whatever they can to alleviate the difficulties encountered when a patient is receiving a treatment or undergoing a surgery. Also, the hospital is a beautiful place to be, full of liveliness and warmth. One can say that it’s more of a playground than a hospital.
Both the hospital and its people have radically changed my life in the most beautiful and positive way. I would not change anything about my overall experience there.
Ermolia Back Then
Meet Our Children
Meet Ermolia
Denos Today
It would not be an exaggeration to say that my health adventure at 11 years old changed my life completely. Thanks to the constant support and help from the Paraskevaides Foundation to me and my family and with the close cooperation with the Shriners Hospital in Springfield I now have a healthy standard of living and I work as a clinical orthotist / prosthetist which I absolutely love.
My diagnosis was osteomyelitis of the left leg. Undoubtedly, the care of the medical and nursing staff at the hospital was excellent. The knowledge and diligence towards the sacred purpose of medicine was excellent as was the result.
To this day my memories of the hospital are super positive despite the seriousness of the condition and the fact that amputation was the prevailing scenario. Undoubtedly the medical approach of doctors and therapists at Springfield Hospital was key to the successful outcome. To date with my work as a clinical orthotist, prosthetist they are the example to follow.
Denos Back Then
Meet Our Children
Meet Denos
Shriners Hospitals for Children
“Our patients inspire us to provide the most amazing care.”
The mission of Shriners Hospitals is to: Provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries, and other special healthcare needs within a compassionate, family-centered, and collaborative care environment.
Our collaboration with Shriner’s orthopedic specialists began in 1981. The Foundation is the only non-American approved “Shriners Examination Center”, where children from all over the world are able to receive examinations from Shriners medical professionals. Their annual visits to Cyprus have helped to solidify the partnership between their esteemed institution and our Foundation.
The examinations by Shriner’s doctors take place within the Foundation, in order to provide the best quality healthcare services for the young patients, in a safe and familiar environment to them and their parents.
Since then, countless Cypriot children diagnosed with urgent medical cases have been sponsored for treatment in the USA by the George and Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation.
Meet Our Children
Meet Ermolia
Ermolia Back Then
Ermolia Today
Shriners Springfield Massachusetts Hospital is my second home. The first time I visited was at the age of two, and every year I have kept on going until I reached 18 years of age. Initially, I started going for treatments and splints, and then for surgeries.
Words cannot adequately express the gratitude and love I have for the entire medical team which includes the nursing, as well as administrative and secretarial staff of the hospital. Each and every staff member knows how to behave with patients and treat a child and its family. They make every effort to ensure the patient journey is a positive experience. No other hospital I have visited has had such an interest in the physical, emotional, mental and family condition of a child.
Always wearing their brightest smile, the employees do whatever they can to alleviate the difficulties encountered when a patient is receiving a treatment or undergoing a surgery. Also, the hospital is a beautiful place to be, full of liveliness and warmth. One can say that it’s more of a playground than a hospital.
Both the hospital and its people have radically changed my life in the most beautiful and positive way. I would not change anything about my overall experience there.
Meet Our Children
Meet Denos
Denos Back Then
Denos Today
It would not be an exaggeration to say that my health adventure at 11 years old changed my life completely. Thanks to the constant support and help from the Paraskevaides Foundation to me and my family and with the close cooperation with the Shriners Hospital in Springfield I now have a healthy standard of living and I work as a clinical orthotist / prosthetist which I absolutely love.
My diagnosis was osteomyelitis of the left leg. Undoubtedly, the care of the medical and nursing staff at the hospital was excellent. The knowledge and diligence towards the sacred purpose of medicine was excellent as was the result.
To this day my memories of the hospital are super positive despite the seriousness of the condition and the fact that amputation was the prevailing scenario. Undoubtedly the medical approach of doctors and therapists at Springfield Hospital was key to the successful outcome. To date with my work as a clinical orthotist, prosthetist they are the example to follow.
Shriners Hospitals for Children
“Our patients inspire us to provide the most amazing care.”
The mission of Shriners Hospitals is to: Provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries, and other special healthcare needs within a compassionate, family-centered, and collaborative care environment.
Our collaboration with Shriner’s orthopedic specialists began in 1981. The Foundation is the only non-American approved “Shriners Examination Center”, where children from all over the world are able to receive examinations from Shriners medical professionals. Their annual visits to Cyprus have helped to solidify the partnership between their esteemed institution and our Foundation.
The examinations by Shriner’s doctors take place within the Foundation, in order to provide the best quality healthcare services for the young patients, in a safe and familiar environment to them and their parents.
Since then, countless Cypriot children diagnosed with urgent medical cases have been sponsored for treatment in the USA by the George and Thelma Paraskevaides Foundation.
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February 21, 2023
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