The Australasian Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) in Victoria, is holding an open day this Sunday at the AHEPA House at 8A Church Street in Hawthorn, Melbourne.

AHEPA was established in 1922 in the United States by Greeks Americans trying to protect Hellenes from the prejudices and the discriminations they were subject to in the 1920s.

The organisation has chapters in the United States, Canada, Greece, Cyprus, Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian chapter of AHEPA was founded in Werris Creek NSW in May 1934, exactly eighty years ago.

AHEPA Australia through its cultural, charitable, educational and social activities tries to promote public interest in the Australian Hellenic culture, language and attributes of Hellenism.

At the same time the organisation also tries to help Greece and Greeks in need in the motherland. Part of this priority was a recent donation of $85.944 by AHEPA Victoria to the Non-Government Organisation Kyvotos in Athens, in order to support poor, abandoned and orphan children in Greece.