Middle-class Greeks have told of their need to eat at soup kitchens, due to the economic hardship engulfing the country.
Former office workers, shop keepers and pensioners have been laid low by their country's economic despair.
Andreas is a retired merchant seaman, who says he hasn't received his pension in five months, and simply can't afford to feed himself.
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“This is good, fresh food. It gives help to a lot of good people, including me,” he says.
Many Greeks are too angry and ashamed to be seen at soup kitchens, hiding their faces.
Alexander, 72, owns two clothes shops in Athens, but lost everything when the economic crisis hit.
“People no longer buy expensive designer fashions,” he said.
Social workers say it is a familiar tale: recession and austerity forcing thousands of once middle-income Greeks into poverty.
From the point of view of people on the street, they've seen their standards of living drop off a precipice.
However, there is a strong sense of resilience and grim determination.
“Things are going to change,” says Andreas.
“We're going to make sacrifices, but we're going to survive… this is guaranteed,” he says. This report from CNN.
