On Friday, the 7th of June the second primary school of Vrontados got a visit of Niretta the Caretta. Niretta the Caretta is a program by the international nonprofit organization MEDASSET created to raise awareness about the endangered sea turtles in the Mediterranean. We volunteers prepared everything for the interactive […]
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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 […]
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, […]
On Saturday, the 15th of December, time for Tsakos and like every Saturday three volunteers of the TES- project went to the boat to take care of the children and to be a member of the presentation hold by a professor. This time the topic has been: Safety. During the presentation […]
On the 10th of November the lesson in the “Junior Captain” – Project presented the subject of Meteorology. One expert in this area came to teach the children about the different layers of our atmosphere, what they are made of, to which layer an airplane can go, showed them various […]
On the 27th of october , the children in the workshop of “Maria Tsakos” Foundation could gain the knowledge about differents mechanics between the boat, how works a ship,a boat .There, they were shown the difference between e.g. a cargo ship and a cruise ship. Moreover, they learned how an […]