Aggelos Kitsos

Angelos Kitsos (; 1934 – 6 August 2008) was the president of Rizarios Foundation (Ριζάρειο Ίδρυμα).He was a Greek from Monodendri, Zagori. He was member of the Councils of the Foundation for the Restoration of Greeks from Albania (Ίδρυμα Αποκαταστάσεως Ομογενών εξ Αλβανίας, I.A.O.A.) and the Foundation of Research of the Ionian and Adriatic space. He was a towering figure for Zagori and the rest of Epirus and Western Greece. Kitsos was a lawyer, but he also worked on script-writing for a number of documentaries, and wrote a number of books.

Early life

He was born in Corfu, Greece. His father was Athanasios Kitsos and also was a lawyer. Angelos went to the historical Kaplaneios School for primary education till 1945, that he entered the (also historical for Ioannina) Zosimaia School. His classmate during primary and secondary, Christos Makris, says: "The entire class was depending on him![...] While we read "Thesaurus", "Romance" and the "Mask", he read Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Rousseau, Voltaire, Nitsche...'''" Angelos studied law, at the Law School of Athens.

Career

In 1960, he was employed in the National Foundation (Εθνικό Ίδρυμα), where in 1961 he was given responsibility of the Sector of Programme of Communal Development. In 1971, he was elected as lifelong member of the Council of the Rizarios Foundation. In 1974, he became Director of Cultural Programmes in the National Foundation. More specifically, in the National Foundation, he worked mainly on the programmes of local development of Thessaloniki, Chalcidice and Eurytania.

Co-operations for development

Kitsos co-operated with the American Agricultural School, the Bureau of Social Affairs of the United Nations, the EOEX, the CARE Organisation, the National Centre, the Greek Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Greek Ministry of Agriculture, the Greek Ministry of Education, the Centre of Constant Training of Public Servants. E.R.A. (Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία), the state radio station, often consulted Angelos's large disc library, that already numbered over 9000 discs in the 70s.

His works