From 15th to 19th of April our team from Chios Island participated in a Evs mid-term evaluation seminar, held in Mpafi refuge on the mount Parnitha, just one hour away from the center of Athens, by the Hellenic National Agency. The attendees were thirty people currently working on their Evs […]
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Easter and the Eggs It is Easter time and we show you different Easter Egg traditions from Greece, Italy and Germany!
In March the children in the kindergarten learned more about Easter in Greece. The Greek name for Easter is Πάσχα (Pascha) and it is the most important celebration of the Greek Orthodox Church. In the first week of the Easter preparations the children learned more about the religious background. By […]
On Friday the 23rd of March we had a very nice theatre around the topic of the Turkish people who wanted to occupy Chios Island. The 6th class prepared together with the volunteers and the teacher a play, representing the resistance. It was in 1821 on the 25th of March. […]
“Better a single hour that is free, then forty years of slavery and prison.” These are the words of a Nikos Ksilouris song for the Greek Independence Day, a national holiday celebrated on the 25th of March. Not only at this day the Greek people are commemorating the start of […]
In the evening of the 03.03.18 there took place a first aid lesson taking place in the library of the second primary school of Vrontados. It was very interesting and definitely helpful for the future life. We volunteers prepared the tecnical equipment beforehand, so that everything was set for the […]
In the kindergarten the children do not only prepare their skills and knowledge for school. Also, they are training their social competences by playing and working together. Of course from time to time a child becomes a bit angry because another child is playing with its favourite toy or it […]
On 16th February we had a carnival celebration in school. Therefore, of course, we had a lot to do. We prepared the decoration inside the building that were garlands out of the kites the children made in the art lessons. We also helped preparing the technical equipment for the party […]
At the 1st of March we celebrated the beginning of spring in the 2nd primary school of Vrontados. Therefore we volunteers helped to prepare handicrafts the previous days, where we drew and cut out swallows, which the children could decorate later with colorful crepe paper. We got to know another […]
Let’s go to Chios City! For us volunteers in the south of Chios this is a normal activity on Saturdays, and we like to go there from time to time. But on one Saturday at the beginning of February 2018 we started a new experiment: Would it be possible for […]
On the long weekend from 17th to 19th of February we volunteers had the opportunity to visit Turkey. First we went to Cesme by ferryboat and afterwards we took the bus to Izmir. It is an impressive city, located around a huge bay and surrounded by beautiful mountains. We got […]
In February the children in the kindergarten learned a lot about the carnival in Greece which is called “Apokries“. For us volunteers was it a great possibility to experience a new kind of celebrating carnival. The preparations in the kindergarten started in the second week of the carnival time with […]