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Content Editorial Who we are Ted-x Event Mosaic Artist People Street dog event Interview with volunteer Recipe Nice moment Hemorrhoids Kalamata Portugal Help needed What’s new What’s coming soon Participation and contact
Editorial A new chapter is starting for K.A.NE. organisation and we are very happy for this... a new challenge which will give us the opportunity to come closer to our aims and share the experience of 8 years of national and international youth work. We are at the pleasant position to announce that our brother organisation is on the way to start working in Cyprus. Recently the name was approved and within July they will receive all necessary documents. Wow... it feels nice to grow! I had long time to feel this excitement of starting something new. Taking an initiative is always exciting and scary at the same time. Being a social entrepreneur is even more challenging. Beside the success of your new initiative, you need to have in mind the social impact you will achieve. And achieving a social impact is always difficult. However it is the most rewarding result of your work as youth worker, project manager or founder... We wish Social Development for Youth (or else K.A.NE. Cyprus) to have a strong beginning, sustainability and positive results for the Cypriot youth!
Filaretos
Who we are My name is Isaline, I’m twenty one years old and I come from south west of France. I’m attract by many form of art like photography, dance, music and graffiti and to me Kalamata is a good spot. I decided to travel in order to meet people, to discover new places and of course to learn english. Here, people are open minded and coming from everywhere so it’s easy to discover the country and his unusual places and also to learn about others countries. To me it was the first time I was taking the plane and go far away from my family and my friends but it’s a really good experience to me and I hope it’s just the beginning of a long list of travels.
Hello people, I’m Nuno Davide and I twenty-three years. I’m from Portugal and I live in (Lisbon). I studied Graphic Design, and I love drawing, painting, listening to music, playing football and many things .. I came to Greece to evolve in my artistic career and learn and experience new cultures English Greek principaly. ;)
My name is lolita but you can call my lola also. I have twenty years old. I studie social work. I love animal and in particularity my favorite are horses. I like dancing, listen music. My personality adventuress, Philosophie of lolita : stay serious but when the time is for enjoy, laugh because life is simple ! =)
Aye, i’m Laura twenty years old and i come from the south of France. I’m interest in learning other language and cultre and that’s why i came the Greece. I’m more of an indoor person with a calm personality and i really like snow that why i love winter but i pefer spring for the flower. XD
Hello everyone, as you already may know, I am Daan the Dutch EVS’er. Don’t confuse it with Deutsch, I am from The Netherlands. You know, Amsterdam, cheese and weed. Ok, I would love to meet a lot of people, so if you are in for a beer or a coffee, you will find me!
Hi! My name is Liliana, I’m 29 years old and I am Portuguese. I am a lover of Nature, all animals and a big defender of respecting all forms of life! Also a believer that the planet must be taken care of, which is why I am now in Kalamata, working on recycling and permaculture farming! Hello, my Name is Jana an I am from Hamburg. I am working in the therapeutic horse riding project and also in the KEFIAP Center. In my free time I like to dance ballet and meet some friends.
Hi! I’m Tania, an Italian volunteer. I’m graduated in Foreign Languages and Communication Studies. Since I was 11 I discovered my passion for studying English and then I decided to study also other languages like Spanish, a little bit of French and I took up also to study a little bit of Polish and Russian. Greek language will be the next. I love rock music, travelling, stay together with my friends and my family and create accessories, especially with crochet technique.
My name is Anthony, coming from Toulouse in France. I really enjoy being a part of this European adventure that is allow to have an amazing experience abroad, totally full of surprises, meet people, discover a new country, new city, new population and many cultural things. I really enjoy music, i play guitar and piano so I suppose I can bring some artistic moves within the organization as I really like discover news things as well.I did a Leonardo program in Lisbon, Portugal, two months from October to December in 2014. Hey my name is Kostantinos (Kostas) and i come from Cyprus, Limasol. I was born in August of 1992. I love music especially rockand punk rock. I will be in Kalamata until February . See you!
My name is Noemie . My country is France .Before going to Kalamata I lived in Toulouse in a Colombian’s family I have been au pair for them it’ s finished because I wanted going to Kalamata to learn English and discovered other culture and other countries and I think that organizing events it’s cool .In my life , I like sport in my country , I make two hours of sport or biking . I love good eat , and learn stuff. I studied massage it’ s my passion . My philosophy sentence is “it’s like that “ and “blues balls “ I am very happy every day.
Like we say: we keep the best for the end so now K.A.NE people Hi my name is Fotini Arapi and I am project manager at K.A.NE. organization and responsible for all sending motilities (sending EVS volunteers, participants in training courses, interns, etc). Apart from my work in K.A.NE., I also volunteer in the Youth Centre of Kalamata, a volunteer initiative managed by a team of local volunteers. I am very proud of and I love the Youth Centre, its dynamic, and most of all its natural inclusiveness that allows everybody to feel “at home� there. See you around :-D
Filaretos Vourkos / Last 7 years I am working in the field of non formal education 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, I’m Jelena Scepanovic, an EVS coordinator in KANE and the volunteer of the Youth center. I came from Montenegro 2012 as an EVS volunteer. I really liked the idea of the Youth center and the work that KANE does, so I decided to stay and be part of it.
Hi! I’m Yanis and my job at KANE involves helping foreign volunteers learn Greek. Other than that, I’m a freelance teacher and trainer cooperating with multiple institutions and organisations in Greece and abroad.
Ted-x Event
As many of you now, the last Saturday of June Ted-X took place in Ancient Messini. Despite of the pouring weather the preparation on Saturday morning went on. Luckily the weather gods where good for the event because after some hours of rain it stopped and the sun showed his merciful face. The beauty of this event had a base in the diversity of the speakers. For many people and for many brains there was something interesting to listen to. From a life changing attack on coworkers to a happy guy in a tutu to a transsexual model with an interesting life story. It was diversely, it was fast and it was good! Let’s not forget that Ted-X can only run because of her volunteers. Ted-X is a platform that makes no profit but trying to survive on the work on voluntarily base. A powerful fist that we can show
in the times that we are living in. With the power of many people we are able to show the money business that we don’t have to rely on money, we have to rely on enthusiasm, the will to work together and the happiness afterward. The day after there was the time to relax, look back on a great event and evaluate the work. Together we joined for the after party at night up in the hills of Verga. With a beautiful view, amazing people and a lot of fun we could say that this years event TedX was a big success. See you all next year!
Daan Roorda
Mosaic Artist Artist makes geometric paintings You know those beautiful hydraulic tiles that you see around and is wondering how it would have one of these at home, at best retro decorating style? Now imagine if you discover an artist who simply creates the impression that these tiles are there only using spray paint. This is the work of Javier Riba. The artist works with the collective Reskate Arts & Crafts and innovates to bring typical elements of street art for indoors. His creations have as ambient old buildings and usually abandoned, to which he gives new life to paint the tiles you see in the pictures below. The technique used by the stencil is Catalan, which allows the creation of patterns more easily. Just take a look at the result and this perfect geometry. Logic is the science of reasoning, the ability to calculate the right way. Some people have logical reasoning (and mathematical) well developed, so create jobs like the one you saw above.
Nuno Davide
People, people! This is my last article and in this way I want to say goodbye to all of you! I am here since the beginning of March and in my time here a lot of things happened, a lot of things changed and I make a lot of experience. In the beginning I came together with Stina to Kalamata and we had the chance to discover the city together and we had an amazing start here. After some weeks we go together to the on arrival training and it was amazing! We meet a lot of people and enjoyed the time in Athens.
The most time in Greece I spend at my Wonderful project at Agnes horse riding Place with her Cats, Dogs, and 4 horses. Amalia was a perfect teacher for horse riding Therapy and was every time there for me to help me if I had problems or to give me new ideas and power for my Evs .
I miss the work with the children and the horses very much and I am sure it helped me a lot for my future. It was always nice to see how happy the children are when they see our horse prima and when they success to do a new activity or game. In my time here I see also how much horse riding therapy helps people with disability. It helps them a lot to discover new talents and also to get over a lot of fears, get stronger and confident to have a independent life and to grow their own personality.
But of course I will also miss the EVS life! I liked to travel a little bit around, to life away from home and to build a new family here! I met a lot of amazing people and I found a lot of nice friends who make my time here unforgettable. I already miss you if I start thinking about my last day and I hope to see some of you again.
Greets and hugs to everyone Pupsgesicht
Jana Henschel
STRAY DOG EVENT MOUVEMENT OF STRAY DOG 11/06/2015
The 11th of June the « stray dogs mouvement » open the door in the youth center on kalamata. The goal of this event was to speak with the local people about the situation of the street dogs. First we make a theatre activity to spoke about what need a pet dog :
We speak about food, socialisation and sociabilisation. We speak about what to give like food to the dog and how. Then we speak that dog need to have contact with human or with other dogs or other animals. He need also to have different stimulation like game and different environement for his smell. For finish, dog can stay long time alone. The way of this theatre it’s to make people involve inter the act :
Second we did an activity. People was separated in group for answer of some like why to buy a pet, what can be the bad behaviour of our animal, how we can make a good education and finally why to abandon our pet dog.
Thirdly, we make a brainstorming conference and a lot of ideas where exchange. So, we discuss about the differents solutions to make reduce of the problem of stray dogs. The first idea was to go to the school and make and intervention with the parents to educate them about pet dogs. Second, was to make a small book in the dog places like vet, pet shops, association, refuge etc. This book will inform people about the need of the dogs, the education and some information about dogs in general.
The event ends with good food and relaxing music.
Lolita Garcia
Interview with volunteer Hi Isaline! Where do you come from exactly? What would you recommend to see or to do if someone wants to visit your region?
I come from a little village in south of France called Lauzerte but there is no lots of things to do there so I spend most of my time in Ariege which is a beautiful and peaceful region. It’s a mountainous landscape with natural hot sources, many little villages and lots of mysticals stories about that place. Some people have choose to live in communities managed by themselves, they try to live with less money as possible doing their own vegetables garden, their own cheese etc, and barter their products to live an healthy life all together. There is also lots of castles to visit and many hiking to do on the Cathars trail to discover their story which is really interesting. As well, during the weekends people find themselves in unusual places lost in the mountains or in the forests to do parties all night long always respecting each other and the nature.
What do you like most to do during your spare time? During my spare time I like to spend time with my friends, to go for a walk in the nature. I listen music and I take pictures almost every time I can. What is your favourite place here in Kalamata? I’m here in Kalamata since only three weeks so I’ve still many things to discover but for the moment my favorite place is the Hobo beach. Why did you choose to do the EVS? and why here in Greece? I decided to do an EVS because I want to travel and to learn english, I still don’t know what to study so I think that travel abroad and meet new people can be enriching for myself. In my opinion the EVS is a good opportunity to discover new countries when you don’t have lot of money and feel useful while enjoying.
Tania Lagana
Ratatouille Vegetarian meal which come from the South of France: Nice this is a traditional dish from Mediteranea. Ingredient: ( 4 persons) - 350 g of eggplant - 350 g of zucchini - 350 g of red and green pepper - 350 g of onions - 500 g of mature tomatoes - 3 cloves of garlic - 6 big spoon of olive oil - 1twig of thyme - 1 leaf of laurel - salt and pepper
Preparations: Cut the tomatoes in quarter, the eggplant and zucchini in slice. Mince the pepper in rhin slice and the onions in slices.
Warm 2 spoo of oil in a pan and the onions and pepper melt inside. When they are tender add the tomatoes, the chopped garlic, the thyme and the laurel. Add salt and pepper, put a top and let simmer during 45 minutes under low heat. During this time, prepare the eggplant and zucchini. Cook them in a separate pan with oil for 15 minutes Check that the vegetables aren’t hard and add them to the mix of tomatoes, cook them 10 more minutes under low heat. Put salt and pepper if you want. You can enjoy hot or cold.
Laura Doddi
Nice moment I’ve discover a beautiful place 10 minutes by car from Kalamata’s center called the Hobo. It’s a nice bar open on the beach, there is a young and friendly atmosphere, during the day you can enjoy the sun and the sea by listening latin and intercultural songs, there is also more or less high rocks from which you can jump into the water or just appreciate the view for the people who are less audacious. When the sun goes down, the rhythms of the music are more electronics and then the party beggin, particularly at the full moon, it’s an ideal place to party, to meet new people and to have fun!
Isaline Busignies
Hemorrhoids!!! Hemorrhoids are vascular structures in the anal canal. In their normal state, they are cushions that help with stool control. They become pathological or piles when swollen or inflamed. At this point the condition is technically known as hemorrhoid disease. The signs and symptoms of hemorrhoids depend on the type present. Internal hemorrhoids usually present with painless rectal bleeding, while external hemorrhoids may produce few symptoms or if thromboses significant pain and swelling in the area of the anus. Many people incorrectly refer to any symptom occurring around the anal-rectal area as “hemorrhoids� and serious causes of the symptoms should be ruled out. While the exact cause of hemorrhoids remains unknown, a number of factors which increase intraabdominal pressure, in particular constipation, is believed to play a role in their development. Initial treatment for mild to moderate disease consists of increasing fiber intake, oral fluids to maintain hydration, NSAIDs to help with pain, and rest. A number of minor procedures may be performed if symptoms are severe or do not improve with conservative management. Surgery is reserved for those who fail to improve following these measures. Up to half of people may experience problems with hemorrhoids at some point in their lives. Outcomes are usually good.
Kostantinos Ioannou
Kalamata It was just to tell how I feel the general atmosphere in the city before the referendum about Yes or No for Eurozone. One of the first think I have noticed around me, it is that I see frequently people who are waiting in big queues in front of the cash machines.
Indeed, Greeks are limited to taking out a maximum of 60 euros in cash per day from the banks. I have talked to some Greek people from Kalamata and most of them have no idea about what to vote, for them, it will not change anything, they are going to be in a mess.
Some of Greek students are afraid of their future here in Greece, about schools and so on. It is a historical moment for Greece and Europe, it seems that things are going to change from now but we don’t know in what way it’s going to change. For us, EVS volunteers, we are all living something new and this is amazing to live that here in Greece.
Anthony De Lasa
28 Reasons to not visit portugal If you ever think about going to Portugal to spend some time, then I strongly suggest you read this article before making your decision. It’s for your own good, really. 1. Portugal is rather dull-looking.
Douro River, Porto.
2. The natural landscapes aren’t exactly breathtaking.
Douro Valley
3. If you’re looking to go to the beach, forget it. They’re all crap.
Praia da Rocha, Al garve.
4. Yep, nothing to see here at all, folks.
Beach cave at Praia de Benagil, Lagoa.
5. Please, the hobbit house is a lot cooler. You poser.
Casa do Penedo in Fafe, Braga.
6. It’s a country with absolutely no history.
Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon.
7. It’s boring to be at. Nowhere interesting to go to.
Guimarães Castle, the birth place of Portugal.
8. It’s just meh.
Serra da Estrela
9. No interesting wildlife.
Iberian Wolf
10. The countryside is as exciting as watching paint dry.
Drave, Aveiro.
11. Aveiro is Portugal’s Venice? Pfff, please. Nice try.
Aveiro
12. The food looks awful.
Cozido à portuguesa.
13. And then there’s also the “francesinha. It almost makes you wanna throw up, doesn’t it?
Francesinha from Tappas Café in Candal, Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto.
14. The drinks too. No good wine anywhere in this country. Just awful.
Graham’s Port Wine.
15. No especially tasty sweets either for dessert. Why God, why?
Pastéis de Belém, Lisbon.
16. The cities, especially the main ones, look horrible. And you call yourself the capital, Lisbon?
Praça Marquês de Pombal, Lisbon.
17. Nothing cultural or traditional worth noting.
Festa do São João in Porto (lit. St. John’s Festival).
18. Museums are even more boring than usual. No history, remember?
National Coach Museum, Lisbon.
19. No good music festivals happening either. Much less international ones.
Rock in Rio Lisbon 2014.
20. And even the women are hideous. Seriously, some of them even have a moustache! Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model (with a little tweak, lol).
21. Awful music called “Fado” that is apparently held in high regard by all the Portuguese. Can’t figure that one out for the life of me. A drawing of Amália Rodrigues in Lisbon. She is considered to be the voice of Portugal, the Queen of Fado. 22. In terms of sports, Portugal sucks. No one here cares much about it, especially about football.
Estádio da Luz, Lisbon. Portugal x Sweden, 2013.
23. The people are very rude. And they don’t care much for foreigners. You’ve been warned.
Merchants at the Bolhão Market, Porto.
24. And look, it’s a freaking wasteland mostly.
Marvão, Portalegre.
25. Especially in Alentejo. It’s basically the desert of Portugal.
Alentejo.
26. People don’t know how to party there. Really disappointing. Xutos e Pontapés at Enterro de Aveiro, April 2014.
27. So, if you still haven’t got the message…
Parque da Cidade do Porto.
28. Don’t bother traveling to Portugal!
Torre de Belém, Lisbon.
Oh, and also...
Cristiano is obviously sad to see you’re never, ever coming to visit his country. So is Mourinho, but a tough SOB like him would never show his tears.
You’ve probably realized it halfway through this, but I am indeed contradicting myself in this article. And yes, this is on purpose. That’s because Portugal is actually one of the best places you could ever visit! Just ask anyone who’s been there that was in a position similar to yours, or people that actually live there. And yes, you will probably encounter some older people with moustaches, although it’s not as common as before. But not women though! That was just a joke. I hope not...
Liliana Correia
Help Need
With the Youth Centre opening again its doors to the public, for the 7th period, 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 As all of the language workshops make use of the white board, we consume approximately 3 markers per week! * Pens You can never have enough of those! * Computers Unfortunately, the Youth Centre at the moment has only 1 working (almost) computer to be used in the info-point. We need at least 1 more computer to be used in the dance workshops (for now we are using a borrowed one) and 1 more for the outside activities‌ *Volunteers As you may have noticed, most of the time in the Youth Centre, apart from our lovely volunteers from abroad, there is usually also a Greek speaking volunteer around, to give information about the workshops and help in case it is needed. If you want to become and volunteer in the Youth Centre and dedicate 2-3 hours per week to help with the running of the Youth Centre, please, do not hesitate to contact us at: kentroneonkalamatas@gmail.com
What’s new
Art exebition from the 8th July to 20 in the youth Center
What’s coming soon
Roof party on the 17th of July in the Youth Center Departure of a volunteer
Participation and contact Designer and Editor: Laura Doddi Kostantinos Ioannou
Staff members of Kane: Fotini Arapi Filaretos Vourkos Jelena Scapanovic Ioannis Papadopoulos
Long term EVS:
Short term EVS:
Laura Doddi Kostantinos Ioannou Daan Roorda Tania Lagana Lolita Garcia Liliana Correia Nuno Davide Jana Henschel
Anthony De Lasa Noemie Scellet Isaline Busignies
Contact Kane Social Youth Development Platia Othonos 10 24100 Kalamta Greece
Tel: +302721110740
Email: info@ngokane.org
URL: http://www.ngokane.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kentro-neon
The volunteers responsible for this publication are hosted in Greece in the framework of the European Erasmus+ programme, KA1/youth European Voluntary Service. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained there in.
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