The John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation serves to implement and manage the public benefit work of Latsis family members, including Spiro Latsis, who serve on its Supervisory Board. The Foundation thus serves to carry on and honour the public benefit work tradition of John S. Latsis.
Greece has recently suffered due to the ongoing fiscal crisis’ effects. Although a great deal of Greek society was hit hard by these effects, the most vulnerable sectors of Greek society have suffered perhaps the most serious damages. To address the impact of the crisis and the effects it is having on Greek society’s most vulnerable by contributing to relief efforts, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation has implemented a social solidarity programme titled ‘It is Our Duty II’. 
In its implementation of this programme, the Foundation has collaborated with non-governmental organisations, public welfare foundations, holy dioceses and parishes, as well as institutions active in health care and social welfare fields. The initial implementation phase of the programme was focused on Greek citizens of Thessaloniki and Attica who have had their lives dramatically affected by the fiscal crisis. The programme’s intent was to ensure the provision of immediate relief, while also complementing and enhancing the impact of other, similar measures implemented by other public welfare institutions or by non-governmental and governmental agencies.
The ‘It is Our Duty II’ programme also featured the key component of financing for other initiatives. This financing takes place alongside the provision of broader support for institutions and non-governmental organisations that are working to enhance social solidarity and protection in Greece, prioritising Greek society’s most unprotected citizens such as the newly poor, the unemployed, the homeless, and children. Since April 2012, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation has designed and realised a number of collaborations with social welfare organisations. In addition to undertaking these various initiatives and providing support and funding to social welfare organisations, the Foundation has considered enrichment of the social solidarity programme with further activities an important goal, as the accomplishment of this ensures that adaptations of the programme to existing social protection networks will occur as well as adaptations with respect to Greek society’s evolving needs.
