THE DUTCH ON KYTHIRA The Team The Team introduction Dutch George and Anna Koksma form ‘The WCC Team Kythira’. Of course they needed help and money for all the projects. Over the years many foreign assistants strengthened the Team. WCC offices in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Greece sent assistants of various profession (among others architects, agricultural and civil engineers) for several months or […] Koksma's Letter to the ecumenical team A letter written in Athens on 20 April 1961 from George Koksma to Mr. Kurtis Naylor of the Ecumenical team of the WCC in Geneva: Dear gentlemen, For our island, Kythera, we should like to ask you for some extra assistance, for non-budgetary openings in order to give a good start to a series […] The Team’s achievements up to 1965 An overview of the Teams activities from 1960 until 1971 with the work of he Dutch Team from the World Council of Churches (Wereldraad van Kerken) at the Greek island of Kythera (1) and an financial overview (2). This document is mainly in English, and only partly in Dutch (3) and any contribution from you […] Achievements of summer camps 1964 – 1969 at Mylopotamos Start of excavations for water cellar and columns and beam foundations. First group (29 June – 26 July) was lodged in Myrtidia. They achieved digging 125 m1 foundation beams, deep water cellar (450 m3) was dug, rebar bending for 3 column footings and beams and 25 m3 concrete was poured. Second group (26 […] Five year the Kythira-Team (IN DUTCH) Een brief aan het periodiek van de Christelijke Jongeren Verenigingen in Nederland over de periode vanaf april 1960. Door J.M. Koksma, een verslag “zoals het voor de mond kwam …”: Is het alweer vijf jaar? De tijd raast maar voort. Vijf jaar vol van werk voor dit zonderlinge eiland. Een eiland met 5.000 inwoners. Sommige […] Reforestation The involvement of the Dutch Team in reforestation of Kythira in the sixties. In George Koksma’s “Development Manifesto”, written on request of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva in 1974, a financial overview of the Team’s projects at Kythera from 1960 thru 1971 was added. For the reforestation project from 1960 to 1969 […] Forester mr Zerlendes The Greek article by governmental forester Ioannis Zerlendes, “We have to plant many eucalyptus trees”. He explains that this tree is not endemic and where it came from and how long it should grow before to be cut for timber. At the end of his article apart of the good use of […] The Team’s activities 1960 – 1971 An overview of the Teams activities from 1960 until 1971 with the work of he Dutch Team from the World Council of Churches (Wereldraad van Kerken) at the Greek island of Kythera (1) and an financial overview (2). This document is mainly in English, and only partly in Dutch (3) and any contribution from you […] Work reports WCC Team 1960 – 1962 The activities of the WCC team on Kythira were documented in bi-weekly and monthly reports. A lot of them have been preserved but some reports went missing (1962 July/December, 1963 Jan/Dec, 1964 Jan/June, 1968 January (a few pages). Through Mr. Ir. Peter Goedhart from ICCO (Holland), Mr. Georges Tsetsis from WCC Geneva has been contacted […] Work reports WCC Team 1967 The activities of the WCC team on Kythira were documented in bi-weekly and monthly reports. In 1967 there were two summer camps in Mylopotamos and the project of the Cheese Factory in Fratsia. In Ferbruary two technical students arrived on Kythira, Frank Berghuijs en Harry Wellink, from the Technical College Arnhem, Holland, as new team […] Work reports 1970 and 1971 Team Kythera in de laatste jaren 1970 en 1971 Hoe de Mylopotamos school werd afgebouwd. Overgenomen uit de in het Engels geschreven 3-maandelijkse werkrapporten van het Team. *Click on the text to enlarge 1970 April 1st (Jan, Feb, March) About meeting Queen Juliana from Holland, who was very interested […] Xenonas13/04/202006/05/2020