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Our Members
About Our Members
The Armonia Community Animal Centre is a non-profit organisation in the Argos-Mykines municipality, in the Peloponnese region of Greece. Our organisation is new, but our founding members have spent years working for the benefit of local cats and dogs. In 2024, we started working on communications and taking small actions in the community – listening, learning about the issues and finding positive solutions.
Our philosophy is that every single animal is an individual, with needs and preferences. They are not helpless, but they do need our care. We want to move away from the idea that the cats and dogs who live free are a shame or a problem that needs to be removed - or that they are constantly sad and suffering. We don’t call these animals ‘strays’ because they are not lost - they simply have a different lifestyle.
Liz is Australian and has lived and worked in Serbia and Greece for the past six years, where she runs her registered business, Ethos Dog. She is a certified ethical dog trainer and specialises in shelter dogs, community dogs, and adopted dogs from the Balkans. Beyond individual dogs, Liz is deeply committed to achieving systemic change by promoting and demonstrating ethical care for free-living dogs and cats in Greek communities. In 2025, Liz was appointed as the dog trainer representative on the municipal five-member committee for animal welfare. Prior to her work in animal welfare, Liz had a 15-year career in project and program management, policy, strategy and leadership in the environment sector.
Stavroula
volunteer
Stavroula has been a teacher in secondary education for 27 years, she’s a proud mum and loves being a voice to protect community animals. She cares for her beloved Eva and several other dogs and cats in Dalamanara. She is pursuing her master of education in TEFIL(teaching English as a foreign/international language) yet.
Stavroula is leading our education activities, including the design of school programs. She also dedicated time to promoting compliance with the law, and pushing our community and authorities to act legally and with integrity.
