Summer work camps introduction Ecumencial Summer Work Camps were largely organized by “De Oecumenische Jeugdraad” in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 1960 Tree planting in Myrtidia, organized by WCC office Athens, 4/9 – 1/9 international and also participants from Kythira. 1964 School Mylopotamos 2x. Excavation of water basin, column footings and foundation beams, pouring part, foundation beams, […]
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 […]
Tuesday 18 January 1966 Mr. J.M. KOKSMA, leader of a team for ecumenical development, already there for years, is coming to Triangel to speak about his work and the money that is required to make it prosperous again. Cooperation between youths could be basis for a further ecumenism. December 1964 the section church […]
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 […]
Some particulars about George and Anna Koksma who lived at Agia Anastasia, Kythera. I was 52 and my wife some years younger when the World Council of Churches invited us to “go and remake” the island of Kythera (in 1960). We had placed ourselves at the disposal of the WCC a year […]
It was the 27th of April 1960, that we came here at Kythera. Precisely one year later we again landed on the rough shores of the old island, after a wonderful time in Athens and Western Europe, full of all sorts of events. After a stormy travel with a kaïki from Gythion to […]
Above an overview of 5 years community development, April 1965 by Mr. Koksma. Click on the text to enlarge. Team’s achievements up to 17 April 1965, second part up to October 1965 A letter by George Koksma to the World Council of Churches office in Geneva dated 17 April 1965. Review […]
Een brief aan het periodiek van de Christelijke Jongeren Verenigingen in Nederland over de periode vanaf april 1960. Door J.M. Koksma, een verslag “zoals het voor de mond kwam …”: Is het alweer vijf jaar? De tijd raast maar voort. Vijf jaar vol van werk voor dit zonderlinge eiland. Een eiland met 5.000 […]
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 […]
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