The "Ark of the World" is a non-profit organization about Special Care, Maternal and Child Protection, which operates on the care of children living in conditions of neglect and abandonment, without medical care, without a future, most single parent families, and many without parents. The "Ark of the World" was founded in 1998 by a twenty nine year old priest, Antonios Papanikolaou father with arms his love for children and his desire to create a nest of affection and care for these children of Athens.