The 21st of November is the liturgical feast of the “Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary” like its called in the West or to name it in the eastern way the celebration of “The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple”. One day before we helped in the […]
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A former volunteer from this project got married here on Chios Island. She invited the responsable of the organisation and also we volunteers had the chance to come and experience a her Greek wedding. Around 6.30pm, everything was ready in the Saint Anna Church. The first people who arrived were […]
In the morning of the 27th of January 2012, in the local church “Panagias Ereithianis” was held to take leave of the priest, as he was retiring and replaced by a new priest that took his position. As this priest left his position after 52 years, many people of the […]
In the morning of the 16th July we, the volunteers, helped with the preparations for the name day celebration of Saint Marina. Our part in this ceremony was to prepare the area and decorate the Agia Marina church with flowers and curtains. It was a very special day for the […]
The volunteers live together in houses, on Chios Island. There, we share all the tasks concerning maintaining the house and making living together as pleasant as possible. Our house is located very conveniently, as it is not very far away from the center and just about 200 m far from […]
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 […]