“She won’t survive,” they told her parents – they were wrong

“I’ll become a beggar if I must, but I’ll make sure you go to school and escape the mud of the village,” promised Dimitra Karanikolopoulou’s mother to her children in the small village of Paniperi in Pylia. Her promise came true, as Dimitra graduated from the academy and achieved what she had always dreamed of – she became a teacher! What the young educator could never have foreseen, however, was that her students, her classrooms, and the schools where she would teach were seas and oceans away… they were in the emerald land of Australia!