1960 By-weekly reports: A summary of main topics, events, visitors, etc. Left out is the tremendous lot of administration, financial reporting and writing of letters with fund raising intentions. Note that for a long period the team leaders worked 7 exceedingly long days a week. 1960: May 01 / 14 The shooting of […]
1962 Main topics and work of the Team until June
1962 By-weekly reports: A summary of main topics, events, visitors, etc. The 3rd year brings the Team the first feats that everybody hears about: the very first landing stage at Kapsali for the ferry from Piraeus on its trip along the Peloponnese to Kythira and the installation of plastic pipes in Logothetianika, […]
Improvement of the island communication with the mainland
WCC Team-Kythera, 1960 – 1971. The World Council of Churches, on a request of Bishop Meletios in 1958, sent a team to Kythera to help the Bishop to improve living conditions in his diocese. In The Netherlands the WCC found the Dutch couple George and Anna Koksma available to go and live for […]
Team introduction 1960 -1971
Team Kythera, their activities over the years 1960 thru 1971 Introduction In the past years I have collected and studied the work reports that were regularly written by the Team members about what they had been doing in the past period. These reports were sent to all those who were interested […]
Winter camp 1968 Myrtidia Ini Zander, Summer camp Fratsia and Livadi, Geraldine Willems and Frank Berghuijs
Please scroll down for many more amazing potos form locals and winter and summer campers made by Ini Zander, Geraldine Willems, Frank Beghuijs and Riet Simons. Dutch participants in 1968. Team Kythera 1968, winterkamp Myrtidia en zomerkampen Fratsia en Livadi Overgenomen uit de in het Engels geschreven maandelijkse […]
Team member Piet Goozen Mylopotamos 1969 1970 1971
Photos all made by Piet Goozen 1970/1971 Home Economic School Mylopotamos *Click on a photo to enlarge Teamlid Piet Goozen over zijn werkzaamheden van 2 jaar in Mylopotamos. Ritthem, 28 augustus 2005. Kythera. Beknopte beschrijving van het verblijf van Piet C. Goozen (1969 – 1971) en Anke de Rooij (1970 – […]
More work reports and photos 1970
Team Kythera in de laatste jaren 1970 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 Road work Agia Pelagia towards Karavas *Click on a photo to enlarge 1970 July 1st (April, May, […]
Deelnemers zomerkamp Mylopotamos (IN DUTCH) Theda Visser en Marcel Rouweler
In januari 2016 krijgen wij e-mailcontact met Theda Visser, deelneemster aan het laatste Mylopotamos zomerkamp 1969. Dit was naar aanleiding van een artikel eind december 2015 in een Vlaardingse krant over hoe Ina en ik elkaar op Kythira in Livadi in 1966 hadden leren kennen. 12 januari 2016: Dag fam. Bingen, Vandaag kreeg […]
Mylopotamos 1969 summer camp home economic school
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 donation to build the school at Mylopotamos. (In May money was transferred from Holland to WCC office Athens.) […]
The Arrival Introduction
Mr. Koksma was an architect and civil engineer from the Netherlands who on request of the WCC had been to Kythera the previous year to investigate and discuss this matter with Bishop Meletios. Early 1960 the WCC offered George and Anna Koksma a contract of US $ 30,- each per month living allowance (1 […]