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A women’s monastery with 45 nuns. In order to meet the monastery’s needs for survival and all their charitable work, they have been systematically involved in the past 20 years and have created a vertically integrated unit within the Monastery, with the final product of dairy and cheese products. They started out with a few dairy cows and at the moment they have created a modern farm. The nuns have their own mill for processing and mixing their feedstuffs, part of which is produced by them, while they maintain a high standard dairy cow farm and have established a creamery where they process the milk, standardise and market their products. The nuns do not stop searching and studying this subject and are committed to the highest standards. All of their products are made 100% from their own fresh pasteurized milk, without concentrates, powders or other additives. The cheeses mature at least for six months and the main feature of all the products is their excellent quality. Their work has been recognized as remarkable by competent public and private bodies, particularly in relation to their dairy farm. The Agronomic University of Athens estimates that the Monastery farm is of particular scientific interest. That is why it brings students for a study visit, internship, diploma work from both the animal production department and the food technology department. They also expressed interest in presenting the monastery work at the postgraduate department of animal production of the University, considering it as a model for Greece and abroad". The charitable work Along with their every day monastery duties, the nuns carry out a social-charity work. A basic part of this is the free hospitalization of children mainly from families with many children. This was requested by families and started systematically since 1998 with 20 children initially. Today, this number has approached one thousand (1000) girls only and in addition the need arouse for spiritual and material support for the whole family.