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For example, both formal and informal civic associations started providing food to poor people. The Church ran soup kitchens every day in the centre of Athens, while in the western and southwestern neighbourhoods of Athens volunteers cooked several hundred meals a day (The Financial Times 2012).

[73] Further on, a few NGOs, linked with municipal authorities, monitored the living conditions of the homeless, making rounds in the city centres to offer them blankets, food and medical help.

Moreover, informal networks of volunteers served as intermediaries between restaurants, hotels and bakeries with food to spare, and homeless charities and food banks, by putting the former in touch with the latter (Henley 2012a). The more politicised volunteers identified with a country-wide left-wing social solidarity movement rather than with any charity network, implying that they rejected traditional, philanthropic encounters between the well-to-do and the rest.