Koutsounadis-Germanos, Vivi (c. 1946 - )

Vivi Koutsounadis-Germanos is a Greek born psychologist and counsellor who helped to establish and now heads the Ethnic Childcare Development Unit based in Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales. She has had a high level of involvement in the Sydney Greek Orthodox Community for several years and served as president of the Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales in 2000. She helped to establish a national organisation for Greek Welfare Workers. She has also enjoyed an international profile as president of an international organisation of pre-school educators. In 2002, she went to the United Nations, where she lobbied the high commissioner of refugees about the need to tackle the problems experienced by children in detention.

• Koutsounadis, Vivi

Chronology

1983	Order of Australia - Services to the community
1998	HEROC Human Rights Medal
2000	President of the Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales
2002	Lobbied the High Commissioner for Refugess at the United Nations

Featured in

• Being Seen And Heard: Migrant Women Organising In Australia, A Documentary History (2006 - )

Presided

• Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales (1898 - )

  [2000 - ]

Related Corporate Bodies

• Ethnic Childcare Development Unit (1980 - )

  Vivi Koutsounadis-Germanos heads the Ethnic Childcare Development Unit

See also

• Records and Proceedings of the Speakout for Immigrant and Refugee Women, Migrant Women's Advisory Committee of the South Australian Ethnic Affairs Commission, Adelaide, 1983. [ Details... ]
• Sawer, Marian, 'Double Disadvantage: Migrant and Aboriginal Women', in Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia, Allen and Unwin, North Sydney, 1990, pp. 107-139. [ Details... ]