Monthly report 31th of May 1962 Kythera Unit I would be the great day that was organized by the Bishop: the day of the greenery. Well, it was a great day somewhat. It started with a ceremony: the Bishop blessing the works at Kapsali. Dr. Naylor, the visitor from Geneva WCC, was very […]
Water supply systems Logothetianika, Potamos and Diakopoulianika
The installation of water supply systems for the first three villages Logothetianika, Potamos and Diakopoulianika in 1962. By Jean Bingen, February 2021. This story is more in detail only about these three villages than the general story “Search for domestic water at Kythera in the sixties”. George (Jurjen) and Anna […]
Search for domestic water
Search for domestic water at Kythera in the sixties and how Karavas, Logothetianika and Potamos as earliest villages got their water supply system. When George and Anna Koksma arrived by car from Holland at Kythera by the end of April 1960, to improve on request of Bishop Meletios living conditions on the […]
Bishop Meletios & WCC Team: their involvement with the former hospital at Potamos
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Potamos water supply
Photos of the work being done on the new water system in Potamos in 1962
From Karavas to Kapsali 1962
1962 hereby a serie of amazing photos from Karavas to Kapsali >> For more photos and stories of 1962 click here […]
DIARY OF JEAN BINGEN 1962 (IN DUTCH)
Ταξιδι στα Κυθηρα Dagboek Jean Bingen, Kythira 1962. (september 2005) Zondag 28 januari 1962, vertrek vanaf station Arnhem om ca 10.15 uur. Samen met mijn studiegenoten Erik Boekaar, die gedurende 6 maanden m’n kamergenoot zal zijn, Wessel Breunisse en Martin Klerkx. We reizen naar Kythira, een eiland in Griekenland, waar we als studenten […]