On the 17th of April, the students from the 5th grade from the school Panagia Erithiani visited the very first leprosy hospital in Greece, which is located around 20 minutes south of Vrontados. Once arrived, we were welcomed by our guide for the day and walked down a little path […]
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Last Sunday, some of us volunteers decided to use the sunny weather and walk to a close village in the North of the island, Lagkada, which is located around 10 kilometres north of Vrontados. We started after breakfast and enjoyed the nice view. Walking to Lagkada from Vrontados, you walk […]
On both the 1st and 2nd of April authors visited the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados. The first author presented 2 of her books to the 1st and 2nd grade, including reading out parts of her books. The children enjoyed it a lot and listened carefully. At the end the […]
On the 3rd of April many schools sent their 4th – 6th classes or a select few of them to a big sports stadium of one of the primary schools in the city. The children got picked up by a bus at 8:30 in the morning and were transfered to […]
As the 25th of March is a public holiday in Greece, we volunteers used the long weekend for a trip to Turkey. Our journey started with a ferry ride to Cesme, from where we went by bus to the airport in Izmir and further by plane to Istanbul. We spent […]
It is that time of the year again – Greek Carnival. This Celebration marks the beginning of a 3 week period known as „Αποκριά (Apokria)“. The first week is the so called preannouncement week, the second week is the week of meat, and the third week the week of cheese, […]
On the 22nd of February one of our volunteers accompanied the first and second graders of the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados. The Excursion started at 8:30 am, when the children got picked up from the school by a bus. They then drove to the city of Chios, where the […]
For this years christmas, the primary schools and the kindergarten of Vrontados prepared celebrations. In the first primary school of Vrontados, the children of the first class already rehearsed since the beginning of December for a play their teacher wrote by herself. The story was about christmas elves, a sad […]
As we are approaching the middle of our project, we had the opportunity to go to the mid-term seminar from 1st until 5th December. The objectives of the seminar were of course to reflect and discuss about the different projects, but also to think about the future and possible ways […]
Every year on the 21st of November the Orthodox Church celebrates “The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the temple” in the Catholic Church better known as “Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Theotokos is the Greek title for Mary, translated it means “the one who gave birth to […]
On the 13th November 2018 the 3rd and 4th class of the 3rd primary school of Vrontados had an excursion to the Center for Environmental Education Chios (Κπε Χιου – Κέντρο Περιβαλλοντικής Εκπαίδευσης).
On the 31st of October 2018 people with special needs visited the 3rd primary school of Vrontados. The day’s program was divided into two parts, in order to adapt the activities to the children’s needs.