Monthly Archives: September 2017
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Almost every volunteer, who goes abroad to another country writes in his list of expectations “learning a new language”. Greek is a language which differs a lot from other languages on one side, but on the other seems sometimes to be very familiar with our own home country vocabulary of […]
Apart from the summer time, the children who are members of the swimming club P.E.K.E.V. have a daily training in an indoor swimming pool. To help their parents, the club has set up a mini bus that picks the children up at home and brings them to the swimming pool. […]
On the 2nd of December in the indoor swimming pool, there was a swimming race of two local teams where the children participated, that are members of the swimming club in which we assist. Our task was to measure the time of the little racers. Each one of us was […]
The normal swimming training of the sports club P.E.K.E.V. takes place in the indoor swimming pool near Karfas, which also has an outer pool for the warm days. Different teams are training there, from little beginners to older and more professional swimmers. Also in this area we volunteers get the opportunity to […]
On the 24th of August was the Farewell Party at the swimming pool of the club P.E.K.E.V. in “Ormos Lo” to celebrate the ending of a successful summer of swimming practice. The children were playing in and outside of the water, while music was playing and the families and friends […]
During the summer vacations the local sports club P.E.K.E.V. apart from the swimming lessons also offers sailing practice. Children from primary school as well as high school have the opportunity to learn how to sail with a so called “Laser” boat. The task of the volunteers is to assist the sailing teachers and furthermore […]
In every year there is a swimming competition among the children and the trainers of the swimming department of the sports and cultural club P.E.K.E.V. in the local swimming pool “Ormos Lo”. It is not like a serious swimming race, but more like a demonstration to an audience of families […]
In the summer vacations the local sports club P.E.K.E.V. offers swimming lessons in the club’s own swimming pool at the beach ORMOS LO. There, the children in the age of primary school kids, or even a bit younger learn how to swim, or continue to improve their swimming skills in sea water. Our […]
Some weeks after the ending of the second period of the “Junior-Captain-Project” in the spring of 2012, a closing ceremony of these first two took part in the yard of the foundation’s building. This ceremony presented the work of the two simultaneously running projects of the Tsakos foundation: The project […]
On an island many people are connected to the topic of seafaring and so are many people on Chios Island. The expert, who was invited, was one captain living on a neighbor island. He was going to talk and inform about the topic “how to correctly sail” one week ago, […]