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editorial For us, as for many people, the new year is actually starting in September. This is the time we are making our resolutions for our work, projects, people. However the “real” New Year is giving us the opportunity to think about ourselves. To sit back, preferably near a fireplace, drinking a warm cup of tea and reflect on our lives. Most of us are lost in the routine. Working all day or being anxious to find a job. Worrying about tomorrow and running to catch up with our lives. Either we are working in a social structure, either in a company having a creative job or a typical one, we are sharing some basic needs. One of them is the idea of changing something in the personal or the social context. This idea sometimes is becoming a will.
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Everything seems right, while sitting near a fireplace, drinking your tea and making dreams for your future change. But how many of us are actually trying to fulfill our dreams. I mean really trying... The most of us, we are returning to our daily lives, working like crazy, running like crazy, killing ourselves physically and psychologically. And what about our dreams? How can we try to make them real? - Grab the opportunity - Be part of the action - Think out of the box Difficult; No! It is so simple as to take the decision to do it. Happy New Year!!! Filaretos
Editor:
Amaia Vilas
Design:
Lina Šuminaitė
Cover Photo: Lina Šuminaitė Staff Members Of Kane: Filaretos Vourkos Fotini Arapi Georgia Giannakea
Long Term Evs:
Melina Savvidis Fiachra Mckeever Carmelo Márquez Eda Tandoğan Ahmad Ayyash Amaia Vilas Erika Funa Danae Lehmann Mehmet Ali Şirin Uğurcan Pehlivan Abdurrahman Ermiş Lina Šuminaitė
Contact us: K.A.NE. Social Youth Development Youth Centre of Kalamata Plateia Othonos 10 Kalamata 24100 Greece Tel: +302721110740 e-mail:
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ΜΙΚΡΕΣ ΑΓΓΕΛΙΕΣ With the Youth Centre opening again its doors to the public, for the 5th year, there are still some things, where we could use your help!!! For the beginning of the workshops, and throughout the year, the Youth Centre needs:
* CHAIRS
Strange as it may sound, the Youth Center is in need of chairs! As the Youth Centre acquires more and more members, and the use of the chairs is extensive, our poor old chairs are breaking down. As it is, it is impossible to have all the chairs that the workshops need. If you have any chairs that you do not use, or you think that you can spare, you can bring them!
* MARKERS for the white board
* COMPUTERS
Unfortunately, the Youth Centre at the moment has only 1 working (almost) computer to be used in the info-point. Temporarily, and only for the registrations, volunteers of the Youth Centre have brought their computers from home… however, eventually they will need them back… We need at least 1 more computer to be used in the dance workshops and 1 more for the outside activities… :(
* Guitars
As we are very musical this year, if you have any guitar that you do not need anymore and can give it to the Youth Centre, please do
* Mirrors
This may be a bit of a longshot but we also need full-length mirrors for the dance room.
As all of the language workshops make use of the white board, we We know that it may be unlikely consume approximately 3 mark- that people have spare full-length mirrors lying around in their gaers per week! rages at home, but then again,
* PENS
if you don’t ask, you’ll never reYou can never have enough of ceive! those!
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The Therapeutic Horse Riding By: Melina
Pure nature, mountains, seaside, lovely street cats, biting horses, barking and killing dogs, crazy sheeps, squeaking pigs, little acrobatics … No, I’m not talking about a circus, I’m talking about my lovely EVS project that is more a hobby than a work for me. Three days per week and two times per day Carmelo and me are cycling the long beach road along to our Coordinator’s home enjoying the sun or freezing into ice. In the idyllic
garden full of orange trees and other fruits and vegetables a small black and especially crazy dog is expecting us. His name is Kefdes and his gender is actually still unknown. All together we make our way to the horse riding place close to Verga that is owned by Agnes. A small mountain chain and citrus trees are surrounding our working and riding place. Next to this you can find the homey place of the horses. The horse that we are always 7
job: Often the small acrobatics hit you with the stick, the ball, and the hammer to wake you up or just pull your hair! But next to all those dangerous risks we take, we also have a lot of fun with the children and learn a lot. Every child has using is Prima. She is very lazy and if she doesn’t want to trot (her steady mood), for sure she will let you know through a quick bite in your arm. Since there are a lot of crazy animals in this place, Prima becomes scared very quickly its special needs and is every time in a different mood. That means we are doing individual exercises for each child. Some of them need more gymnastic exercises, some of them exercises to make them concentrate and so on. It is also and that can cause a lot of problems. So you (in this case me) have to take a lot of care and keep her calm. Whereas I take mostly care of the horse, Carmelo is taking care of the children. Also this can be a really dangerous 8
very interesting and impressing to see how the child is developing and to realise that they develop so fast just because of such simple things. Just sitting on the horse, feeling the movement and imitating can improve the child’s whole movement. We also have a couple of very active and noisy children who only start to relax on the horse. Simple things like cleaning the horses or just to finish an exercise makes them feel proud of themselves and very happy. To see the children like
this makes us even happier! The fact that we are working with animals and children which are having all the time a different mood, makes it always very exciting because you never know what is going to happen. For sure there are always coming out a lot of good anecdotes! For me, and I think for Carmelo, I can say that we are very happy about our project to play such an important and necessary role and that we are doing something so effective! 9
RE-THINK By: Uğurcan
Project Re:Think was inspired by and essentially created through the serious wasted problem that faces our city, especially in the last 4 years. The older uncontrolled dumps, and particularly the current dump of Maratholakka in the Natura region of Taygetos, demonstrate that there has been no institutional progress in the field of integrated waste management. By: Kostas
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I have never seen like it before. In my country we throw the food wastes with other wastes. and the easy think is throw and don’t think. But we are living in the world. Re-think project about the food wastes becoming compost. This is the best way I think. Because you throwing the food waste in the composting box and it’s becoming compost then you can use for your plants. You don’t pay for peshicides. Before to throw food waste please RE-THINK.
Justice for Ross By: Fiachra “So how was your Christmas?” A simple question, often asked in the first weeks of the new year when people reconvene after the holiday season. A typical response elicited by this question is: “Good man. I ate a lot of turkey, drank a lot of beer, had fun with my friends and family...” et cetera et cetera. Rarely, if ever, however do you recieve a response such as this: “Grand man. I ate a lot of turkey, had fun with my family, drank a lot of beer, had a great laugh with my friends to the extent that I was on my hands and knees on the foothpath, convulsed with laughter. It was all fun and games until I got arrested or it. “We’ll go for a pint he says. Be grand he said.” An atypical response indeed. How, very rightly you may ask, does one go, in a matter of minutes, from being in fits of laughter, from having literally harmless, victimless fun with
friends to being unceremoniously escorted away from the scene of the craic by our ever-beloved ‘protectors’. This is exactly what happened to a good friend of mine in Ireland, Ross. He went out one night over Christmas, got drunk as we all do, had a playfight with a good friend of his and mine, was laughing from it, got arrested, taken to court the next morning and fined €1,000, to be given as a ‘donation’ to the poor box (as a side note, I’d 11
love to know if that money is as traceable as Irish beef). Good for the poor, bad for Ross. And justice in general.
Why justice in general? Well, in a report that appeared in a local newspaper back home, the prosecution (ie the Police) stated that they arrested him “for his own safety”. How magnanimous of them. But as someone on the internet discussion of this incident quite correctly pointed out, “Surely a lift home would have sufficed”. I couldn’t agree more. Now I have had some experience with An Garda Siochana in Ireland, and while I have found many of them to be pleasant and in possesion of honourable inten12
tions, it has to be said that a good few of them can be right little egotistical, power-hungry, condescending arseholes who think that a blue uniform and a high-vis jacket elevates them from the rest of humanity and gives them an excuse to render into reality their pseudosadistic and domineering fantasies. And I am sure that this aforementioned opinion of mine, to which I am perfectly entitled, is shared by many’s the man, woman and child, in let’s be honest, almost every country. It is of course no surprise that this particular civil ‘service’ attracts people of this inclination; they do exist and the the police force is a logical destination. Society can not fuction properly if there is a state institution that nurtures fascists-at-heart, allows them to thrive and permits them forego common decency and the respect for fellow humans that is expected of anyone not in possession of a shiny badge. “Look at my shiny badge, now dance because I say so.” This kind of an institutionalised
and artificial seperation of people, their respective rights, benefits and the behaiour that is tolerated is abhorrent and an insult to the concept of justice. So a man gets arrested for his own safety, fined ₏1,000 for laughing in the street and countless scandals involving police officials (not to mention politicians, clerics and bankers, Jesus don’t get me started on that shower) go unreprimanded, thereby further incubating and legitimising croneyism and undermining justice. No, they would rather look like they are doing society a fa-
vour by cleaning the streets of happy, fun-loving people and forcing them to pay money for it (again, to whom exactly?). This situation is far too transparent altogether. So what do we do? I suppose we could, and should talk about it, write about it, sing about it. Information and publicity for the issue of inappropriate use of police and judicial power needs to be spread. Stranger things have happened in this world than a small incident having a big impact. Let’s start the discussion, maybe we can change the world! #JusticeForRoss
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Interview with a Local Volunteer By: Amaia Mariliana Diamantaki losophy do you have in the cooperative? We Know that you start- Our name explains our philosed one project with some ophy, Προσεχώς means “comfriends, tell us? ing soon” because we want to Yes, I started one cooperative be in continuous movement, here in Kalamata, Προσεχώς working with new producers, κοινσεπ, with 6 friends, but new workshops, and at the only 3 of us we are there work- same time support local proing day by day. The project has 3 parts: first Fair trade, second exchange of knowledge and workshops and the third one is selling the coffee in which we use from the fair trade to help us on the financial side. Tomorrow we will have been opened for one month but we have been organising it since last April. We have a European funding that is the part of de department of Unemployed Women. Name
We know a little bit, but tell us which kind of phi14
ducers and fair trade coopera- Have you been collabotives like coffee from Zapatista. rating with others socials centres? How is it going so far? Yes, I used to live in ThessaThe evaluation is positive but is loniki and I used to participate so soon, in one year we will see. in a Social Centre for Refugees and immigrants “ Στέγη About you, how long have Μεταναστών ” . you been involved in the Youth Centre? What kind of activity’s Is my second year now, last were you doing? year I was helping in the cre- I was working in legal health for ation of occupation for chil- refugees and teaching Greek dren and this year as a mentor. and other languages, computAs you know this year, unfor- er skills, some activities for chiltunately, I´m not so involved dren and campaigns about the with the Youth Centre, but immigrant’s rights trying to conwith the cooperative we are nect with the local community. going to take rematch in the I started participating in social near future. projects from the age of 16. Explain us what is the roll of a mentor? The mentor is supposed to be the connector of the new volunteer with the local community. I like it and for me feels a natural position, I was doing it last year and this year is more official.
From Spain, in the area of social movements, Social Centres and different Social Platforms we have Greece always as a reference, as very organized people and involved. Is this right? “Yes in one way we have been very organized for some pe-
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riods of time... Such as the students movement of may of 2006 that reached 300 departments occupations all over Greece... And of course the December of 2008 that after the murder of a teenager in Exarxeia from a policeman that started a big period of youth movements....”
lieve that was going to happen and still we tell ourselves “We have a shop!!!.” One Hero? Loic (one of our last EVS) that was a hero, not a common human been.
One anti-Hero? In general, people how hate Do you use to participate the others. as an activist with another group? When you were a child Yes, in the assembly of my with what did you dream University (Biology). I used to of? participate in a pirate radio of I was changing every year, but my University too. I was in the I wanted something related to area of news and against news animals (a vet, a farmer,..) And and some other departments finally I became a biologist, so it depending of the year. I´m good enough, I made it real. One dream? In my 50´s I would like to Thanks so much to Marilihave a van to travel around ana the world, visiting friends. One Dream that you have made real? The project Προσεχώς κοινσεπ, last year we didn´t really be-
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Interview with a EVS volunteer:
UÄ&#x;urcan from Turkey By: Ahmad
of a farm and the composting material. What is the most thing make you happy? Play music and dance. Who is the most close person to you? My (kanka) Abed Al-Rahman. Why you choose Kalamata? I search about Kalamata in internet and I like the picture and I like the place here when I see it. How much you like your What is your name and job from 10? 9.9 how old are you? My name is UÄ&#x;urcan Pehlivan What about your workand I am 18 years old. shops? I make Turkish lesson and muWhat is your project? My project is about take care sic band. 17
What is your dream? I want to be a great musician, and to buy house, to have a big garden. Do you find love in Kalamata ? Not yet. How you want your dream girl look like? I want a girl like Megan Fox. Uğurcan please give us some words that you believe in? Uğurcan says “if you want to find the right things ask your heart first” *the editor opinion of Uğurcan? Uğurcan have a good heart and I am sure that he will be good and creative person in the future, and I wish for him a good life.
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Christmas dinner
By: Erika Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle on the way...and Santa Clause is coming to town!! On Friday, the 20th of December, the favourite event of many people of the Youth Center took place: The famous Christmas dinner that we all had heard so much about from the people who participated in it before! The tables were brought in, covered in white table cloth, and candles of all scents and colours were put in the middle. The lights were off as we came in, so the candles shaped like stars and flowers were provid-
ing the warm light and the cozy homey feeling. Slowly, people started gathering, each with a tray or two of home made delices. Some brought savory, some made sweets, and of course there was nobody who would forget a small present for the draw that was about to follow the dinner. The little gifts wrapped in shiny paper were placed under the lovely Christmas tree in the corner, right next to the heater that somehow gave the impression of a fire place. The whole room was decorated, twinkling 19
in colourful lights, and filled with Christmas tunes. People came all dressed up and were greeting each other, singing, hugging and taking pictures together. Some even danced! In the meanwhile, the delicious looking food was piling up on the other table, tempting everybody with hevaenly smells! The plates, cuttlery and glasses were brought and finally, the lids were removed from the pots and the feast could start! Oh, the sight of it! All the tastes and aromas! So many things to try it was hard to decide what to choose first! Everybody did an amazing job. And we had all the time in the word to relax and enjoy it. Nobody was in a hurry. It really looked like a scene from a movie, except the feelings and the senses were real, which is what made it so special and beautiful. Everybody was there, the Greek volunteers, the EVS mentors, the K.A.NE. people, and of course us, the EVS crew. There was chatter, there was laughter, everything a dinner 20
is supposed to be. And after it, everybody pulled a paper with a name from a hat and discovered whose Santa they were going to be. The looks were searching the room for the person to give the gift
to, the little surprise bags exchanged and opened with the looks of joy and expectation. A hug, a thank you, kisses on cheeks and smiles of delight everywhere...not so much because of the presents, but more because of a lovely evening spent together. And that is what matters most, afterall.
Christmas dinner By: Abdurrahman
That day was so important for everyone. There were so many impatient people because they were waiting to
give their presents to eachother. Everybody brang some meals, wines, drinks and everything… Tables were full of with meals and drinks. And finally diner has started. They took their diner and had seat around the tables. Everybody was so happy because of the importance of the day. Everyone had fun and laugh during the diner. Everyone was shouting with “yamas!” with their drinks. And finally we finished the diner ceromony and started to give our gifts one by one. Everyone was so happy with the gifts because every gift has a special meaning. It was the last event of the night, after the gift ceromony night finished. I am Abdurrahman Ermis. I wish peace to all around the world and have a nice year to you all. Happy new year!
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THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS DINNER WITH PERFECT FAMILY By: Eda
More than half of voluunters left from Kalamata after the enjoyable and incredible delicious youth center christmas dinner. But some of them was thinking that they are not lucky so much like other volunteers. They had to stay in Kalamata when others with their family. But one of them was so lucky because she found her Greek family in Kalamata. That is me Eda, and this lovely family is my dear mentor Chrisa and her perfect family. I have never been 22
in a chrismas dinner. When Chrisa invite me first time that was first reason for my excitement and other one also the first time I was dining with a Greek family. My first impressions completely hospitely, smiling faces, friendly people, a perfect table everything was so reposeful. They had thought of everything, sweets, delicious foods, fruits even though normally I am not drinking alcohol because of taste and they had brought sweet cherry liqueur
for me and that was also so kind. I felt again how I am lucky. And after perfect table and conversation (of course with my dear Chrisa’s translation) we sit near to fireplace and start to play cluedo game Chrisa me and her lovely mother. It was so funny and beneficial, because we discover a lot of common words with Greek and Turkish. I saw one boat they had put christmas lights and they try to explain it. Surprisingly the Christmas Boat tradition has only become popular in the mainland in and around the last 30 years and is comparativley new compared to the Christmas tree. The reason for this is
that the Greeks are aware that the Christmas tree is not traditonally part of their culture and was actually imported by their first king, Otto of Bavaria. They wanted to begin their
own tradition using the boat, and by the number of people that seem to have taken up this tradition it has been very sucessful and now just couple of people are using, they told me. And when we was playing the game, one of turkish serious was on the tv and at this moment I felt completely like home. They were my first but I think I start with the best.. 23
Christmas activities with children By: Danae On the 13th and 14th of December the youth center offered some activities for children on the main square of Kalamata. Some of us volunteered to sell Amaia’s beautiful self-made candles and help the children with making Christmas cards/ drawings. The most popular activity though, definitely was the face painting. So both days for six hours we painted Aigios Vasilis, Christmas trees, snowmen, Christmas presents … on a lot of very cute little faces. Also on Sunday Giorgos came to our Christmas house on the square to make some awesome creations out of balloons. A big crowd of children gathered around him and wouldn’t let him go until every single kid got some of his 24
balloon art. After those hours us volunteers were a little bit exhausted but also happy to have brightened up a lot of children faces and to have spread some Christmas spirit.
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Opinion Piece “Law of silence” in Africa By: Carmelo December 27th 2013, San Fernando (Cádiz)
To a greater or lesser degree, we have all studied or read in the press about the various genocides in Europe (Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Central Europe...), but can one of you, dear readers, tell me about the brutal genocide in Africa? Hang our heads, face it. Let’s be honest. We don’t know more than a simple shadow of the reality in Africa. Of course, part of this is our own fault, but especially, the information on the southern continent leaves much to be desired. This kind of basic discrimination against African people and Africa’s problems is what I will deal with in this edition of ‘Link’, breaking with this cloying atmosphere of boring articles (mostly) with little content and less reality. More so, in the Christmas editions. We are volunteers, young and with many tools at our fingertips, fuck! I don’t say that necessarily we should write about sad and hard things, but I think we should look around us. For example, I have not read any articles about what happened to our friends Abdi and Uğurcan during their first week in Kalamata. – “So, do it yourself, Carmelo” – you will think. If I haven’t done it, it’s been for two reasons: my 26
English is so bad that it would be a tremendous injustice to write about this subject, and, as I said, I didn’t see a place in this magazine for something so serious. I’ll try to break this dynamic of sweetness with this opinion piece about the imaginary construction of the African people by the media and stereotype as a form of knowledge. No, the next paragraphs will not deal with the just deceased Mandela through precious words. You are warned. You can stop reading if you want. It really is easy to find news in the media dealing with: “250 people have been killed today during heavy fighting between rebels and those who support the regime, northeast of [...] UN observers found 90 mutilated bodies yesterday just, the most of them belonging to women and children”. Hundreds of dead people that already have become just a number to add to the list. There aren’t even names. And yet, “we’re lucky” that a generalist media grant twenty lines or thirty seconds. Sadly, you cannot ask for more than that. And we don’t bother searching between his few lines, the actors of the event, the causes, the consequences, the context ... because it would be a
chimera to pretend that the media will provide us with such information, so basic and fundamental, on the other hand, to understand the fact. However, brevity on this topic - “Africa” – is not as absolute as it’s ability to represent the “shutter” and “diaphragm” of western eyes focusing on Africa. I mean the usual dynamics of the gatekeeper does not go beyond republished information provided by an international agency or generally performing the famous “ctrl + c - ctrl + v”. “Wild, vague, irresponsible for having children, tribal, unstable, amoral, protagonists of constant wars, dirty, smelly, uneducated, doomsayers, ignorant, slaves, lower... in a rare, strange, desert, poor, without natural goods, dark and without history, continent.” With the passing of history, these stereotypes and prejudices have taken deep root in the western collective consciousness. And unfortunately, the media continue to transmit such prejudices or simply don’t work to separate them from the social mind. From Africa cannot come information that is not about disasters, famine, disease, marginalization and war… Never a minim of positive signs about the towns of Africa and it’s people. That’s what we have from Africa daily. That, or reports that deal with exotic, unique traditions. Perfect for the masses, the Europeans, hungry for “circus”, novelties, animals and different places where it can test the steal-of-a “seven million” megapixel new digital camera with Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi incorporated. It’s true that, with the Internet, there are more specialized variety of media, respectful and honest information with
various “hidden” and “silenced” issues in the mass media. However, it’s clear that Internet forms part of the neoliberal globalization in which the new god is “the market”. Globalization which has transformed the way in which it’s reported. Today, censorship isn’t based solely on the deletion of information, but also the saturation of the receptors with colossal amounts of information, due to the constant and huge technological, cybernetic and digital developments. A “legal censorship”. Similarly, that at the same time today democracy is a “legal dictatorship implied”. An entire power structure that obeys the laws of the market. The reality annihilated by a false journalism. Eternal question. The only real journalism will have some sense if it provides to society the key information necessary to draw conclusions and critical reflections. In the world, there really aren’t good or bad ones. There aren’t simple answers. But of course, this is very hard to take for the fearful, lazy and stupid masses. They don’t want to see beyond, their consciousness awakening. They don’t want to think of a complex reality and, thereby, don’t forget their date with “TV circus”. To be above the state and private (not public) interest is the way that journalism must recover in order to be able to explain the complexity of the world and all the many and varied relationships that exist within it. Until then, the media will not leave this profound coma. With much sadness and with little hope, I cannot conclude this article, but rather think that the darkest part of Africa has always been our ignorance of it. 27
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Hello to everyone! My name is Georgia. I am 25 years old and I live in Kalamata. I spent the last 5 years in Athens doing my Bachelor in Management and Business Administration and the last year in the Netherlands continuing my studies for a Master’s degree. I am glad to be back to Kalamata after all those years. I am happy to be part of K.A.NE.organization.
Filaretos Vourkos / Last 7 years I am working in the field of non formal educa- tion as a volunteer, youth worker and youth trainer. 4 years ago, I decided to create the Youth Centre of Kalamata, in order to initiate the youth work in Kalamata and promote active citizenship as factor of change.
Hi my name is Fotini Arapi and I am project manager at K.A.NE. organisation. I started working here in September 2011 and fell in love with the Youth Centre, its dynamic and most of all its incredible team of foreign and local volunteers! See you around :-D
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Hello, my name is Fiachra (the I’m Uğurcan English translaPehlivan. I’m Erika Funa tions are: huntfrom Turkey. From Slovenia er/tracker or I’m working in (half Greek), 26 raven), I’m 26 ecological farm. years old, uni- and I come from I’m playing bas versity graduIreland. Here at guitar. I will be ate (English, the youth centre in Greece until Philosophy) I teach music, 31 of July. My Likes: beEnglish, make name become to ing outdoors, good frappes in my country and languages, art, the café and bad the meaning is nature, yoga. jokes in Greek. Ugur - fortune Χαίρετε! and Can - soul.
Danae Lehmann/ 20 / Germany I like being around people, photography, greek lifestyle, good food, swimming in the sea. I’m volunteering at the youth center from October 2013 to June 2014.
Γεια σε όλους! My name is Carmelo Márquez. I am from Cadiz, a city of Andalusia, in the south of Spain. I’m 25 years old and I have finished my career in journalism. So, like good Spanish, I love flamenco, football (my team is F. C. Barcelona), sea and his waves, philosophy, literature, music... My work here in Kalamata, besides teaching Spanish and Flamenco in KANE center is to help as possible to workers KEFIAP (center children with disabilities) and equestrian therapy until June 2014.. Τα λέμε.
I’m Mehmet Ali Şirin. I’m from Turkey. I’m working in ecological farm. I’m playing elektro guitar. I wil be in Greece until 31 of June.
Hi everybody! My name is Melina/18 years old/ half german/ half greek and I’m working in the Therapeutic Horseriding and in the K.E.F.I.A.P. I love chocolate and to dance, so I teach Salsa for children and Latin and of course German! And all of that I’m really enjoying!
Abdurrahman Ermiş I am Abdurrahman. I am from Turkey. I am working in ecological farm. I am playing drum. I will be in Greece until 31 of July.
Hi, My name is Ahmad Ayyash and I am from Jordan iam 23 years old I love to play chess and football. I am fan of Real Madrid club and I am a construction engineer. My project is about autistic children.
My name is Eda Tandoğan. I am from Turkey. I am 21 years old, still a university student. My project is about disabled people in kekykamea.
My name is Amaia and comes from Basque roots, since my mother is from San Sebastian, the meaning of my name is “the end” but in turn is an warrior woman of Basque mythology. But I born in a beautiful land north of Spain, Galicia, Atlantic ocean.
Lina /28/ Lithuania/ volunteer in K.A.NE. Youth Centre from August 2013 to July 2014. Teaching lithuanian and art. Hobies: design, history and museums.
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