Bishop Meletios & the WCC Team-Kythera: their involvement with the former hospital at Potamos Meletios Galanopoulos was elected Bishop of Kythira the 18th of April 1956. The 22nd of the same month he was ordained and the 3rd of May, a Holy Thursday, his enthronement took place. He served as a spiritual […]
Jean Bingen zomerkamp 1965 Paleopolis
Jean Bingen Fatsadika, januari 2021 Mijn herinneringen 55 jaar later over dit zomerkamp in zulke primitieve omstandigheden. Ontwikkelingshulp had mijn volle interesse en ik had de Koksma’s laten weten dat ik wel bereid was hen op een of andere wijze te helpen. Dus vroegen zij mij om voor het Team de technische supervisie voor […]
Plea for help for Mitata 1965
Plea for help for Mitata after torrential rainfall October 1965 (In Word and translation by Jean Bingen, October 2017) To Miss Mr. Maria de Groot. Zeist, Holland. (November 1965) Dear Miss de Groot, Thank you for your interest. For the attention you have given to the many projects our team is […]
Letter Mr. miss Maria de Groot, catastrophic rains 1965
Circular letter of Mr. Miss Maria de Groot in answer of Annie and Jurjen Koksma’s plea for help for Mitata after the catastrophic rains in October 1965. (in Word and translation by Jean Bingen, October 2017) Zeist November 1965. To all interested parties: Now stumbling, then jumping, I descended from Mitata about a […]
Brief Koksma’s aan de zomerkampers in Paleopolis in 1965
Onderstaande brief van de Koksma’s in Word gezet (Jean Bingen, januari 2021). Brief van Annie en Jurjen Koksma aan de aanstaande zomerkampers in Paleopolis juli/augustus 1965 Kythera 1 juni 1965 Beste kampers, Net vandaag ben ik in staat om jullie iets te schrijven omtrent ons werkkamp in het wonderschone Kythera. Nou, schoon, […]
Mylopotamos 1964, first summer camp Mily de Jong
Mily de Jong wrote: Our first morning on Kythira. After the opening of the summer camp’, the locals invited us warmly to a meal. With a typical Kytherian wine. After a while I got used to it. In between all the photos you will find some texts […]
Photojournalist Sem Presser
From an educational-historical point of view, this is an important article by photojournalist Sem Presser after his visit to the Kythera Team of the World Council of Churches in November 1962. This Team carried out development work on the Greek island of Kythira at the request of the then Bishop. Sem Presser describes in […]
1971 Technical activities of the Team
1971 Technical activities of the Team 1971 Monthly reports: A summary of main topics, events, visitors, etc. 1971 January 9 A three-monthly review (October, November, December) of status and expenses for the building site of the agricultural home economic school for girls at Mylopotamos. 1971 Jan, Feb, March The […]
1970 Technical activities of the Team
1970 Technical activities of the Team 1970 Monthly reports: A summary of main topics, events, visitors, etc. 1970 (Jan, Feb, March) April 1st About meeting Queen Juliana from Holland, who was very interested in the work of the Team at Kythera. Many other important meetings: in Holland Mrs. Dr. Went […]
1969 Technical activities of the Team
1969 Technical activities of the Team 1969 Monthly reports: A summary of main topics, events, visitors, etc. 1969 Jan / Feb In January 1969 there came positive news from Holland. The “Directory of International Technical Help” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands is willing to give a large […]