1960 Reforestation – Water and Trees – Myrtidia – Leendert W. Ruitenberg 1962 Photos from Karavas to Kapsali – Potamos 1963 Monopathi Paleochora 1964 Myrtidia – Mylopotamos Home Economic School – Photos mr. Fatseas – Ina Siepman – Gerard Helmink 1965 Paleopolis – Potamos Old People’s Home – Platia Ammos – Kalamos – Pitsinades – […]
THE DUTCH ON KYTHIRA IN THE 1960’S After a request from late bishop Meletios Galanopoulos in 1956 to the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva to improve living conditions in his diocese, mr George Koksma and his wife Anna arrived in 1960 on Kythira. This website gives an overview of all their projects until […]
Mr. and Mrs. Hornstra came to Kythera for their first time in June 1966. Together with Ds. (minister) Krol they were leading the first of the 2 summer work camps from the Dutch town Vlaardingen. They came for the construction of the community water supply in Livadi, for which project already as from […]
O YΠHPETHΣ VII, the Servant 7 is a letter in Greek from december 1964 by George Koksma to the Kythirian community about farming. The translation has been done in 2018 by Emmanuel Alfieris, from Australia: I’d like to write to you again after these past months with the things that occupy my […]
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 […]
An overview of the Teams projects and 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 […]
Frank Berghuijs HTS student in 1967 working on the water supply in 1967. In 1968 he came back for a holiday and to work as a technical leader in the summer camp. He met a Dutch girl Riet Simons. and they got married. Every year they come to Kythira. […]
**Sroll through the text for amazing photos a lot in Mylopotamos and some are taken elsewhere. Click on a photo to enlarge 1967 Mylopotamos 1e zomerkamp, contacten met Coby Jasperse en Lenie Huisman. Coby Jasperse en Lenie Huisman reageerden op onze (Jean en Ina Bingen) oproep in het Algemeen Dagblad in april […]
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, […]
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. […]
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