Eleni Tanou is not an ordinary case of a teacher taking her car to school. The 30-year-old substitute teacher from Thessaloniki, who has been living in Kalymnos with her husband for four years, takes the boat from the island every day to cross over to Telendos where the few students of the one-seat primary school are waiting for her to go to class.

Eleni Tanou has been a teacher for 8 years. He has taught in the village of Zervi in Pella, in Xanthi, in Athens, in Thessaloniki and in Lipsi. She has also taught for three years in Vathi, Kalymnos, and this year she had to offer her services in Telendos. As she says, in an interview with the Rhodes newspaper “Demetiki”, she is grateful to God for what she has experienced so far in the classrooms of the so-called difficult schools and stresses that substitutes are the ones who keep the schools of the remote areas of the country standing.