SUMMER WORK CAMP FRATSIA 1968 Departure Nijmegen 6 July, arrival home in Holland 13 August Last night farewell party verses. All verses in Dutch, by (unknown?) author. Verses put in Word in tabular form December 2014 1: What is a (summer) work camp 1 Een werkkamp is, zoals je ziet Voor […]
Platia Ammos 1965 Landing Stage
Platia Ammos (by Jean Bingen) People from Karavas believed that Platia Ammos could become the shortest connection for a future ferryboat from Neapolis on the Peloponnese. A first step for a landing stage was taken by local people in 1965. They leveled part of the rocky shore and concrete was poured. […]
Ir. Ida Blok en Kythira, in dichtvorm! (IN DUTCH) 1967
In begin 1967 krijgt het Team eindelijk versterking van een Nederlandse landbouwkundige, zij is Ir Ida Blok, afgestudeerd in Wageningen. Zij zal zich de volle twee jaar blijven inzetten voor een verbetering van de manier van werken en de teelt van de gewassen. (gedichten schrijven kon ze als geen ander, onderaan de tekst vind […]
Livadi 1966 first summer camp
1966 1st summer camp Livadi The first summer camp Livadi, June 1966 from the Dutch town Vlaardingen, quickly was split in two working parties, the larger one that started digging trenches downhill from the place the water tank was to be built and the other that started laying the foundation for the water […]
Myrtidia tree nursery
Photos 1964
Fratsia water supply
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Kalamos and Pitsinades, tree nursery
In the year 1965 a tree nursery was set up in Kalamos. But there was a lack of water. Under supervision of the bishop and the Team, provisions were made in Pitsinades, behind Agios Theodoros. For example a watertank was built. And a year later, in 1966, the tree nursery was moved from […]
Myrtidia 1960 eerste zomerkamp Leendert W. Ruitenberg (IN DUTCH)
Werkkamp-impressies (Door Leendert W. Ruitenberg, deelnemer aan het eerste internationale oecumenisch zomerkamp Myrtidia in augustus 1960, in Word door Jean Bingen, december 2017) Als je nog nooit in een oecumenisch werkkamp bent geweest, sta je er wat huiverig tegenover. ”Kamp heeft altijd een klank van verplichtingen; van op tijd dit en op tijd […]
Water and Trees
Text is also published in the Kythera Summer Edition 2010. Activities at Kythera of the World Council of Churches Team-Kythera from May 1960 thru September 1971. *another interesting read about the springs on the island in general and particular in Mylopotamos from European Union of Geosciences ( EGU) Water and Trees: 1960, […]
Mylopotamos 1966, photos by Bob Scholten
Mylopotamos 1966 Bob Scholten is for the second time arriving on Kythira to work as a summer camper together with his wife Anneke. After 1966 he came back to the island with is family, but by then as a tourist Hereby a serie of photos about the circumstances and happenings in Kythira. Enjoy! […]