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Round the Founder members of Filekpaideftiki Etaireia grew a crowd of benefactors and donors who in more ways than one, supported Filekpaideftiki Etaireia in an attempt to trace out the course of the Schools and establish firmly their financial autonomy, despite the fact that the post-revolution Greece had to deal with a lot of financial difficulties.

The most prominent of all the benefactors was Apostolos Arsakis, doctor of medicine, scholar and politician, born in Hotahova Premeti, in Epirus, who lived and excelled at Bucurest in Romania.

In 1850, while Filekpaideftiki Etaireia was striving to raise funds for the erection of the school buildings, Apostolos Arsakis undertook the financial responsibility to complete the construction of the “Megaron” in Panepistimiou Street, in Athens, covered all the so far expenditure and financed Filekpaideftiki Etaireia in order to continue its work unimpededly.

In one’s own right Filekpaideftiki Etaireia nominated the Schools Arsakeia in his honour.

Michail Tositsas as well as his wife Eleni, both coming from Metsovo in Epirus, were also great benefactors of the Schools.

Michail Tositsas appropriated a considerable amount for national and beneficial purposes, while his wife Eleni, after his death, donated the building plot and took the financial responsibility for both the construction and the maintenance of the Tositseia Schools.

Along with them, many other great or even simple people appropriated huge properties or the little they had for themselves for the Filekpaideftiki Etaireia purposes. It is evident that what counted most was the disposal for contribution and not the offered sum of money.