The “kick off” in the life of Georgia Kovridou was given in 1938, in the village of Oinoi in Kastoria. She was a young girl when she lost her mother and grandmother in the Civil War, a child when she passed through the gates of the orphanage. After two years of hard work in Athens and another two years of intensive studies on Leros, the twenty-two-year-old Macedonian decided to seek the life she had been deprived of for so many years elsewhere…