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EDITORIAL Around this period back in 2007 I took the decision to move to Kalamata from Athens. The change quite big... from a city of 4 million people, living there 9 great years, to move in a small city of 60000 people; Big shock! At the same time quitting my good job in Athens and coming to Kalamata to initiate a non profit start-up without any backup plan and without any financial support; Second shock! Starting doing “something” (youth work) that nobody could understand, finding difficulties to explain in simple words what’s that “youth work thing” (?) in a society negatively prejudiced with non-profits. Third shock! Trying to find partners or employees to work for this social start-up? Mission impossible - being alone for the first years; Fourth shock! Trying to find support and meeting only people who would like to take advantage of “youth”; Fifth Shock! Being independent nonpolitical, non-religious and “out of their system” made them feel intimidated of something they cannot control; Sixth Shock! Having your work recognized in all around the globe but not that much at your local environment; Seventh Shock! 2
They say that 7 is a significant number in many different concepts. I am already 7 years in Kalamata... and I experienced 7 practical or psychological shocks... and they weren’t easy... but they were fun! or funny? Never mind... the fact is that I feel satisfied and proud for my 3 children (K.A.NE., Youth Centre of Kalamata and Kalamata Street Festival) but I also feel exhausted... maybe I need to take a break... will I manage? Nobody knows... Filaretos P.S: Αγρανάπαυση ονομάζεται η προσωρινή διακοπή της καλλιέργειας ενός αγρού για να αποκτήσει ξανά την παραγωγικότητα του. Συνήθως διαρκεί ένα χρόνο και εξαρτάται από το είδος του εδάφους και τις κλιματικές συνθήκες που επικρατούν. Η αγρανάπαυση είναι περισσότερο αναγκαία στους αγρούς που εφαρμόζεται εντατική μονοκαλλιέργεια που έχει ως αποτέλεσμα την “κατανάλωση” των θρεπτικών συστατικών του εδάφους.
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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! 6
A Letter to FutureMe By: Ece
Dear FutureMe, Before you start reading this, grap a nice cup of Caramel Macchiato to keep under your bed. If you have already boyfriend by this time, then screw the hot chocolate. If you are reading this now, I hope you are doing just fine. Right at this moment, you just finished watching “Dallas” (Season 8, Episode 3) and you are listening to Dean Martin. Aah I must remind you that you are still “fili mu” with Lina, because you are neighbour. And last time she invited you to dinner. So please do something! I know you are still lazy to get up early and go to work. But come on! Everytime you imagined your own work. It was to go late! Oh my God! Ah I forgot to celebrate you. Finally you are speaking good, Greek and German. Yes you are thinking if so that why you didn’t write this letter with Greek or German. Because PastYou were not enough for this. Ok I will not write more, because I know you want more sleep. P.S: Do it whatever your new dream!
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My study By: Eda My study life is totally luck and totally different than other normal students. From the beginning of my article I want to thank you my bosses here in Kalamata Maria , Aggeliki , Christina , Fotini , Filaretos and Jelena. I don’t know who is exactly responsible about my free days who is my top boss exactly but all of them helped me about my university stuff , expecially Jelena is the main one about “finishing The University idea for this year”. My department is economics when finish my high school I didn’t want to be economist but in Turkey when you finish your high school you have to go one exam and you have to choose departments as how Is your point. Normally this is my last year , my university is for 4 years and I have to go all of classes and sign for all , for you were there or not. Sounds quite hard when you think me. But one of my best friend, her name is sounds 8
similar with me , name is Seda and she is signing for me for all the classes , like I am there. I don’t know how is education system in other universities but in my university we have two term Autumn Semester and Spring Semester , and this terms have 3 exams for each one. Three and three totally six exams in a year. First one is visa exams second one is final exams If your point is not enough to pass after final exam , they gave you third change and this third one is makeup exams (when they calculate our total point for end of the term they take visa exam’s 40% and final exam’s 60%) . This mean important one is second and third about point but if you can not go second one you have one more chance But if you can not go first one , you don’t have second visa exam chance. In My Autumn Semester I had 14 lessons (normal successful students have 8 But I am different case) when I go for first visa exams , I was thinking like “okay it is not possible to pass all without go to lessons because you will not have any idea about lessons, just try
to give some maybe 3 maybe 4 “ After this 2 weeks of exams, we can learn all of our results in 1 month more or less (Here is turkey) when I learn all 5 were Really good but others were terrible. I started to think like “Never mind don’t go for other ones, your visa points are not enough “ I decided to don’t go for second one but I never thought about third one. Therefore in the 31 December night at new year dinner at Προσεχώς, we were talking about studying stuff and universities with Jelena , I mentioned about my situation and she started to explain me that how I have to go, she was right because if I don’t go I would have 1 term more with 14 exams, but if I go it could me more easy because I already had good points with my 5 lessons it was luck. After talking with Jelena , I started to search cheap flights from the beginning I couldn’t find but later with good luck I found. This is really miracle after this exams weeks when I learn my results (this exams results are easy to learn it is not like visa) I learn that I passed 11
above 14 lessons. it was waow , really I couldn’t believe. This mean if I can pass other three at summer exams I can graduate for Autumn Semester. If I don’t talk with Jelena for sure I wouldn’t go to any exams anymore. Thank you so much again Jelena! Nowadays, I came to Turkey again for Spring Semester’s first exams They are going quite well (luck is again with me) When you read my this article at the time, I will be at Greece again. Maybe I will know all of my results also. After this Visa exam, i will have two more but they will be after EVS. And the main good news , it is looking like finally I will graduate In this summer.
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Because freedom begins with you By: Erika If you ask me, EVS is a great opportunity for learning, transformation and exploration. After all, it is a year away from home, from all the friends, family and everything familiar, a year out of the educational institutions and without the responsibility of full-time employment. As such, it gives you the time to pursue many of the things that were always somewhere in the back of your mind or on your to-do lists scattered around your university notes, old diaries and post-it麓s in your room. Apart from learning Greek, taking part in dancing lessons, teaching yoga, and continuing learning Arabic, sustainable development has always been one of my interests. After talking about it and exchanging some ideas with Fiachra and Nikos (a local volunteer) in the first months of the EVS, we decided to organize a youth exchange with this topic. What better way to learn something than by putting it in practice as a creative project of a group of international young people! Loip贸n, we chose the partner (participants) organizations, wrote the application (about 30 pages long if not more!), in which we had to describe the project in detail and 10
present our programme for the week of the youth exchange, together with its theoretical background, methodology, aims and objectives, and after some months of waiting and wondering, we got the green light (aka the funds) from the EU, which meant that all the work was not for nothing and the youth exchange was actually happening! Soon after, the meetings of the organizers (Fiachra, me, and a small group of local volunteers from the social cooperative Prosexws) became more or less a regular practice, and we all started feeling excited preparing for the event in May. Basically, the idea of the youth
exchange we are organizing is to promote sustainable and selfsufficient lifestyle in harmony with nature. The focus is on the environmental aspect and in making the most out what the local climate, surroundings, and natural resources have to offer - in a creative, sustainable, do-it-yourself way. Why? Because if you never question it, the pressure of the system will probably have you believe that consumerism and helpless passive compliance with the rules of the rat race is the only choice you have. Being less dependent in terms of knowledge and needs gives you freedom, and can actually increase the quality of your personal life, and consequently, like a wave, create positive changes within the local community and spread onwards, even internationally. It empowers you on all levels and makes you realize that there is in fact more than one way to live. Our youth exchange, part of the European Youth in Action Programme, will bring together thirty young people from six
different countries: Romania, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, and Greece. During one week together, they will get an insight into each other´s cultures and together learn things that will stay with them for life. In the first days of April we already had a visit of the youth leaders from the countries that will be represented in the youth exchange. They came to Kalamata in order to become familiar with the place itself, to meet us, and to discuss the programme together, and also so that they can better prepare the participants before the departure for what is about to follow. We spent three great sunny days together, and are now even more motivated for the event itself. The Greenilicious Greekology will take part from the 14th to the 20th of May. We will keep you posted. Stay in tune.
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The way from Turkey to easy to be student in Turkey. Kalamata.. You are studying and fighting By: Apdi
I am with you this time with a different subject, i will explain you one of meal that i discovered. I don’t know if anyone discovered this food before, but I really don’t care. I wanted to give you some information about me first and than i will explain you that how i discovered. Normally i don’t know how to cook, but I was just cooking pasta and some of easy recipes. You know the efforting how can I save the day with an easy meal. I think just the university students can understand this, I don’t know how is university students at other countries, what do they do I have no little idea, but in Turkey we do this things, this is really important because the little calculates are also so important because you are student and you have to be used to about somethings. How can I make things with little things you have to have brainstorming about this subject. It is not 12
with life, this mean people says you that you have to study and that is not important for them how are you pooping or eating. To be student is so hard in Turkey, let me show you how are students living. Imagine that one of turkish person is alone at the desert and I will tell you what can they do there, after this I wish that you can understand me clearly. 1. Making laundry hanger with fork. Let to have cheap things in your life.
2. This drill can be useful about a lot of things for example you can use it as a mixer.
3. You can not find now in Tur- 6. You can also cook meat unkey this kind of wc, but some der of iron and whatever you of students discovered it. want.
4. You can use fridge as a nor- 7. And also heater can be cookmal stuff’s wardrope. er too.
8. If you don’t have enough 5. You can cook pasta inside of budget.. cattle if the things are not going as a normal. You can try ..
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9. Iron always works on a lot of talk about past first, and than your main message. This is my idea. Beways.
10. Wardrobes are can be bed sometimes.
Of course all of students are not like that in Turkey, but 50% are passing on this ways. Actually this is also kind of exam for them. Because imagine that you are trying to build your future, and you have one target you have to study a lot for have what do you want. And god is not giving everyone what they want you have to effort and put your level always so high, for stay stronger. I know I gave so much details but I had to do it. Because if you want to talk about something you have to 14
cause other way you can not give your main message, sometimes it is not important that what are you talking about sometimes the importance is on details. Let’s see my no name meal. Before Kalamata I was just know how to cook pasta and some of easy meals. Sometimes we were need a girl for go out of the classical foods, if you had a girl as a friend it was. So easy, because you could eat good and different meals. I think I also woke up here about a lot of things not just about foods. This is my first abroad experience, first time I am living with people from different countries. (Of course I have been part of other exchange projects) they were doing what they want, but I couldn’t find anything different except fÜr classicals. After 2 months I started to cook different meals, but they were not like how I want. I was always searching new tastes. After 1 months I started to cook good things. First cutting the garlics and than adding yoghurt and mixing putting putting all putting all of them to the saucepan, first step is done. And than the sauce, roasting the papers, adding tomatoes than roasting sousages. Than sauce is done. Second step is also okay. Now boiling the pasta when it is done mixing everything finally meal is ready. See you on new article.
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2014 | Can Europe change through voting? By: Carmelo
European Elections 2014. When is the voting taking place? Who are the candidates? Why bother voting this May? The damn ignorance that is killing us every day, slowly and gradually, through evictions, unemployment, hunger, health and education. Through “austericide”. Through a dramatic desintegration of social Europe. The 2014 Elections to the European Parliament will take place in every country of the European Union from the 22nd to the 25th of May, when fiftyfour members of the EU Parlia-
ment will be elected by direct, free and secret universal suffrage to represent the European citizens until 2019 (which will be the eighth legislature). After the criticism of neglect that characterizes us, I think we should be more aware of how important it is to know clearly what is at stake when voting takes place. It is final time to start reading the programmes of the parties. Now that you only have, that we only have, one month ahead to do so. We cannot forget that the ruthless
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brutality of the crisis and the austerity policies are after all coming from Brussels (EU). Political apathy, the crisis of the leftist parties, the fear of low turnout at the elections are problems that already existed in 1979 during the first European elections. Thirty-five years later we have the same concerns and fears. Despite such a long time, it seems that Europe has not changed in terms of its values of respect, tolerance and democracy that it so pretentiously proclaims (despite having won the Nobel Peace Prize, the EU has been an infamous accomplice of another Nobel Prize winner, Obama, in Syria and in the Ukraine). A disgrace. However, is it possible to change Europe by voting? The truth is that in Europe the financial elite lives off its easily accumulated money and speculation, thus enjoying their perfect position for the exploitation of human beings in the name of the market. The European Central Bank has designed a system that diverts money previously intended for education, health, develop16
ment cooperation and public services to speculators through creation of a public debt. The European citizens have lost the possibility of self-government to some financial powers that make the economic decisions of the governments. Europe was nothing but a political illusion of a social state that would function as an alternative to the dictatorships of various origins and to the American capitalism. However, the measures imposed in Europe to tackle the crisis have been crueller than Yankee neoliberalism. The gap between the rich and the poor is already huge in Germany, but in the so-called “colonies” of the EU periphery it is even multiplied. Still, despite all these wounds and disappointments, we cannot make the EU a spa retreat for the exhausted national politicians (as is the case with the Upper House or Senate in Spain). We have to go to vote. Each according to their own sensibility, but vote, vote, vote ... You know it now: between the 22nd and the 25th of May.
Future | EVS and then? By: Danae
Good question! I think most of the EVS here don’t have a clear plan, including me. I actually also didn’t know before the EVS started what my future plans were. So this is also one of the reasons why I came here in the first place. To orientate myself, to get to know my own interests better, to have a little more time to decide and still with only two more months left in Kalamata I’m not sure what to do in the future. I just finished school before coming here and now I at least decided to go to university to study something. The only question is what? Sometimes I was a little jealous of those who always knew what they want to study
or what job they want to do. For me it was something different every day and I changed my plans constantly. Now, if people ask me what I am going to do next year they will only get an answer like: “Study something?! Often I get annoyed with questions about my future and even more if I have to hear something like “What? You still don’t know exactly?” Of course this is because slowly I really have to decide and I can tell you that I really hate taking important decisions. I have some friends, who are my age and will already get their bachelor degree soon. They finished school, took a decision and 17
went straight on to university. I never was stressed about finishing everything early and get a 9-to-5 job as fast as possible, to do it for the rest of my life. I preferred to spend some time in the USA when I was 16 and now some time here in beautiful Greece and I gained so much from it, things that also will be beneficial for my future. Fact is that next October a new chapter will begin and I’m sure that I will figure out soon what exactly I will apply for. And if it doesn’t work out for me, I’ll try something else. It’s a big decision to take but it’s not a final one. I’m sure that me, and also the others will find their “thing” sooner or later. Until October I will try to get a job for the summer to be able to travel a little bit in September and otherwise just enjoy the few weeks of warm weather that Germany has to offer but right now I’m still here, living under the Greek sun, making the best out of the present.
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Γειά σας παιδιά By: Fiachra Ήρθα εδώ στον Αύγουστο και συναντήσαμε με τις εθελοντές που είχανε έμενε εδώ για δέκα μηνές ή ένας χρόνος, και μας δίνανε πολλές συμβουλές και πληροφορίες για να περνάμε καλά εδώ. Πήγαμε στα πολλά παρτιά (!), ταξιδέψαμε στον Πελοπόννησος και φωτογραφήσαμε πολλά! Όταν άνοιγε το Κέντρο Νέων, αρχήσαμε την δουλειά μας. Κάθε μέρα είχε, και έχει ακόμα, πολύ κοσμο, και μερικές φορές
Γειά σας παιδιά, τι κάνουμε; Εώς ξέρετε είμαι εδώ στην Καλαμάτα για οκτώ μηνές και είδα πολλά από την έχω φτάνει. Έχω κάνει πολύ φίλοι νέοι, από πολλές διαφορετικές χόρες. Είχα πολλά σκαμπανεβάσματα, έμαθα πολλά πράγματα, και είχα πολλές εμπερίες, πολλές καλές, μερικές κακές, αλλά όλες χρήσιμες για εμένα. Ίσως δεν θα το διαπιστώσω τώρα, ή σε πέντε μήνες ακόμα, ίσως χρειάζομαι χρόνο να ξεμπερδέψω όλες τις εμπερίες μου. 19
ήμουν λίγο βυθισμένος! Αλλά, προσάρμησα! Ήξερα πριν ήρθα ότι θα είναι λίγο δύσκολο για να ρυθμίσω: νέα χόρα, νέα γλώσσα, νέοι άνθρωποι, νέα περιβάλλον αλλά υπάρχει εδώ πολλά καλά παιδιά που το ξέρανε, και έκαναν όλα που μπόρεσαν να μας βοηθήσουν. μάθει να σκέφτομαι τους άνθρωπους και να εξετάμουν τις απόψιες τους. Κάθε άτομα είναι διαφορετικά, έχουν τα δικά τους προβλήματα και κάθε άτομα, δεν έχει συμασία ποιοι είναι, πρέπει να το θυμούνται. Έχω μάθει πολλά πράγματα σκετικά με τι θέλω να κάνω για δουλειά, και προσπαθώ να κάνω Είμαι πολύ χαρούμενος και τυχερός για αυτό. Γενικά ήμουν πολύ τυχερός εδώ. Δηλαδή με την δουλειά μου, με οι φίλοι μου, με τον καιρο εδώ, με ορισμένες ειδικές άνθρωπους που θα μπορούσα μόνο να είχα συναντηθεί εδώ, και είμαι πολύ ευγνώμων για αυτά. Δεν θα αλλάζω τίποτα. Τι έχω μάθει; Έχω μάθει να σκέφτομαι πριν λέω ναι. Λέω ναι για πολλά πράγματα όταν δεν προλαβαίνω, και έπρεπε να το μάθω. Έχω 20
αυτά κάθεμερα. Έχω μάθει ότι πρέπει να ξυπνήσω νορισότερα, πρέπει να σκέφτομαι και άλλο για τι νιώθει το άλλο παιδί, και ότι δεν μπορώ να κάνω τίποτα αν δεν νιώθω καλά εγώ. Είμαι εθελοντής αλλά πρώτα είμαι εγώ, και μεκριές φορές το ξεχάσω. Είμαστε εθελοντές,
κόσμο εδώ, και είμαστε εδώ να βοηθήσουμε. Να μην ξεχάσουμε να πιατήσουμε απ΄τα ονειρά μας, να μην φοβόμαστε η ζωη μας είναι δική μας.
είμαστε εδώ να βοηθήσουμε και έχουμε ευθυνών που δεχθήκαμε αλλά, αν έχουμε προβλήματα μέσα μας που μας καθιστούν κάτω, ίσως έμας εμείς χρειαζόμαστε βοήθεια. Ίσως ο Θεός εαυτός θέλει βοήθεια από καιρό σε καιρό. Έχω μάθει, εώς κακής ποιότητος ώς ακούγετε, ότι είμαστε όλοι ανθρώπινα, με τις ελπίδες, με τους φόβους, είμαστε όλοι το ίδιο, κάθε άτομα, είτε το αντιλαμβανόμαστε είτε όχι, είμαστε όλοι οι αντανακλάσεις από το άλλο. Είμαστε όλοι εθελοντές στον 21
A week in Turkey By: Ugurcan This month I want to write about my trip to Turkey. The Great Day in İstanbul
29 March I went to Istanbul. I arrived to İstanbul at 15.00. When I go to Istanbul first thing for me to visit Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) and Sultanahmet (Blue Mosque). Then I went to Üsküdar for to meet with my friend. When I meet with my friend I didnt speak Turkish very well. I was telling one Word then I was thinking 2 word in turkish. I try to talk a lot. And also I eat Kebap with my friend. Then I went to Kadıköy. I think everybody knows the Fenerbahçe. If somebody says some bad words about Fenerbahçe in Kadıköy (Please dont do that). You can stay in hospital 1-2 weeks :P Anyway I went to Kadıköy for meet with my schoolmate. I made my second dinner in Kadıköy. I and my friend we went to pub for our friends live. 22
Then I went to Europe side in Istanbul with boat. I went to Beyoğlu (Istiklal Street one of my
best place in İstanbul). I went to club at 12 untill 6 in morning. That was great night. After club I went to drink coffe for to be stand be-
cause I was completely drunk :P then I went to port for to go other side of İstanbul. I and my friend we sitted in the boat and we fell asleep If I remember right. We slept in the boat around 2 hours. Anyway I went to Kadıköy again.
met with my friends, parents, my teachers. Acctually 9 days wasnt enough for to do those things. But I tried my best. Anyway. I went to Eskişehir at 4th April. I met with my schoolmate. He is working and studying one of the best hospital in Eskişehir. I went this hospital. I hope One day I can work there. Me and my friends went to pub Street in Eskişehir. Then we went to home and all the night we played guitar and singed. Then 5th Aptil I went to Istanbul for visit my aunt and 6th April I came back Kalamata.
I made first breakfast in Turkey. 30 March I went to Bilecik. Bilecik is very small city in Turkey. The population is 60 Thousand. This city is little bid important for history because The ottoman empire was established in this area. Also 30 march was important. Beacuse there was elections in Turkey. I stayed in Bilecik 5 days. Because I studied high school in this city. I met with my last bandfriends. I
Everything was perfect but except political things. Have a nice craic.
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Greek people By: Ali
Before to come here, I thought too much about that Greek people will like me or no. In my brain a lot of question I had. But finally EVS started and day by day everything was improving better. Slowly I tried to know people and I wanted real friendship. After I could it. I had too good people. Of course I’m happy for it. I lived here with people who were here. For example, when someone asked 24
me “Where are you from?” and I answered “from Turkey”, I realized that they smiled. It was really important for me. In addition, somebody know some Turkish basic words. And I really like to hear. I knew so nice people and I want to know more.
Arabic food By: Ahmad Potato pan Recipe is: • Potato 3 pieces • Tomato 2 • Onion 1 • Spices Now the process: • Cut the skin of the potato and clean it • Cut the potato circles • Cut the tomato circles • Cut the onion circles • Put all of it in the pan and put olive oil • Put a little pit water • Put the spices and cover it by aluminum • Put it in the oven 4 1.5 h • Enjoy and eat.
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OFFICE: WHO WE ARE
Hi, my name is Miguel Oliveira/40/Portugal, university graduate (marketing and management), Here at the youth center I taech portuguese. I´ll be in Greece until 4 May. Likes: Scuba diving, outdoors and also antiques.
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
LONG TERM EVS:
I’m Uğurcan Pehlivan. I’m from Turkey. Erika Funa From Slovenia I’m working in (half Greek), 26 ecological farm. years old, uni- I’m playing bas versity gradu- guitar. I will be in Greece until ate (English, 31 of July. My Philosophy) name become to Likes: bemy country and ing outdoors, languages, art, the meaning is Ugur - fortune nature, yoga. and Can - soul. 26
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.
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.
Hello, my name is Fiachra (the English translations are: hunter/tracker or raven), I’m 26 and I come from Ireland. Here at the youth centre I teach music, English, make good frappes in the café and bad jokes in Greek. Χαίρετε!
Olá! I´m Rita Meleiro, from Portugal. I´m 30 years old, graduated in Arts and Cultural Management and I´ll be in Kalamata for three months for the Leonardo da Vinci Project. I´m in love with visual arts, performative arts, photography and football (my team is Benfica!). While in Kalamata I will work in NGO K.A.NE., and my projects are mostly related with events planning.
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.
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.
Hello! I’m Ece from Turkey. I’m 22 years old. I studied Economics at the Istanbul University. I’m happy as a volunteer in here. I believe I will do great things for K.A.NE. My Project is for 9 months. It will be finished in October. After the volunteering, I hope I will stay with K.A.NE. Although this is the first week for me, I’m feeling like I was already here in the past. So now that’s all.
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 June 2014. Teaching lithuanian and art. Hobies: design, history and museums.
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