15TH of April 2013 l iN KNr.37

New program

Social Solidarity Clinic

interviews with interesting

people

And much more ...

Editor: Taaniel StoitsevCoordinator: Bjartur Steingrimsson

Staff mEmbErS of KanE:Filaretos VourkosFotini ArapiGeorgia GiannakeaAntzela Lenakaki

EuropEan VoluntEErS:Bjartur SteingrímssonDiana DiasDorian AgnelGianluca BarbinIeva MedinyteInes Dupont MiaultIrene Pena HerranzJelena ScepanovicKaja NapotnikLeonard PristlLoic MarchandManuela GasconMarisa CarvalhoSandra CoelhoTaaniel Stoitsev

ContaCt uS:K.a.nE., SoCial Youth dEVElopmEntYouth CEntrE of KalamataplatEia othonoS 10Kalamata24100GrEECE

E-mail: EVStaaniEl@Gmail.Com; info@nGoKanE.orG

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EuropEan VoluntEErS:Bjartur SteingrímssonDiana DiasDorian AgnelGianluca BarbinIeva MedinyteInes Dupont MiaultIrene Pena HerranzJelena ScepanovicKaja NapotnikLeonard PristlLoic MarchandManuela GasconMarisa CarvalhoSandra CoelhoTaaniel Stoitsev

After a whole month of celebration for

the 4 years of the Youth Centre of Ka-

lamata and the 5 years of K.A.NE. we

are now ready to go for the Easter hol-

idays. During this month, we’ve creat-

ed a video, we’ve presented the results

of the workshops, we’ve donated blood

and of course we had a perfect concert

and a party with 10 kilos of delicious

cake!!!

resting will not last for long... in one

week, we are coming back to the organ-

isation of the 7th Kalamata Street fes-

tival. This is the biggest external activ-

ity of our team. A difficult experiment

which started as a small local street

festival and became a huge (for Kala-

mata’s numbers) international festival.

Until now, we are having quite good

news; Graffiti and hip-hop artists will

come from all over Europe and prob-

ably during the days of the festival we

will host 150 people from abroad, plus

all those who will come from all over

Greece!!!

remember that the participation call

is still open and everyone who is in-

terested in presenting any activity can

still apply to the email: info@ngokane.

org . More information you can obtain

at the webpage: www.streetfestival.gr .

What are we expecting for this year?

Much more people than the 3500 of last

year and many more activities which

will rock the city for these 3 days... This

is the power of true volunteerism!

We need to say no more words but that

we are expecting all of you to send us

your proposals, your ideas and your

participation! in the end of the day, the

Kalamata Street festival comes from

the people and belongs to the people!

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

foreword by filaretos

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* BiCYClE

Do You happen to have a bike that You don’t use it

anymore or is standing in a basement etc. and You

don’t need it, then don’t let it get rusty without use &

please bring it to Youth Centre - we have many vol-

unteers who would kindly appreciate it! (Seriously,

think about it and let us know, it doesn’t have to be

perfect, just bike that is possible to bike with!!!)

* MEDiCiNES

We support the Social Solidarity Clinic of Kalamata

and we invite the members of the Youth Centre to

bring from Monday to Thursday between 17:00 and

22:00 any medicine that they do not need anymore.

You can also deliver them directly to the Social Soli-

darity Clinic of Kalamata if it is more convenient for

you, which is located near the old hospital of the city

of Kalamata.

<<Μικρές Αγγελίες>> is periodical heading appearing on every liNK, that delivers help requests conserning Youth Centre. it is also avaliable for other advertisements & announcements, just let Us know during Youth Centre opening hours or writee-mail: evstaaniel@gmail.com.

Μικρές Αγγελίες

At a moment we are glad to inform that we have new workshops in the Youth Centre - oriental Belly Dance & Muay Thai. a moment also Music Theory, Music improvisation, English Conversation Group, Hip-Hop, SwingDance, Tai Chi & Choire are open for more participants!

* MEDiCiNES

We support the Social Solidarity Clinic of Kalamata

and we invite the members of the Youth Centre to

bring from Monday to Thursday between 17:00 and

22:00 any medicine that they do not need anymore.

You can also deliver them directly to the Social Soli-

darity Clinic of Kalamata if it is more convenient for

you, which is located near the old hospital of the city

of Kalamata.

* CHAirS

Strange as it may sound, the Youth Center is in need

of chairs! As everything gets older by using it a lot,

the chairs in the Youth Center keep breaking down

once in a while and our dear volunteers have to move

chairs from 1st floor to 2nd & vice versa all day long,

in order to accomodate the different workshop. The

workshops need chairs for the participants to sit & we

don’t have enough to make the volunteer’s life easyer.

<<Μικρές Αγγελίες>> is periodical heading appearing on every liNK, that delivers help requests conserning Youth Centre. it is also avaliable for other advertisements & announcements, just let Us know during Youth Centre opening hours or writee-mail: evstaaniel@gmail.com.

Μικρές Αγγελίες

At a moment we are glad to inform that we have new workshops in the Youth Centre - oriental Belly Dance & Muay Thai. a moment also Music Theory, Music improvisation, English Conversation Group, Hip-Hop, SwingDance, Tai Chi & Choire are open for more participants!

P a s t & P r e s e n t

As everyone knows, March

made a deep impression

on our minds...

Not because there was the inter-

national Women’s Day or Ant-

zela’s birthday, but especially for

the surprising Carnival !

indeed, for celebrating this event

we had first, on friday 15th , the

carnival party at the Youth Cen-

ter. A lot a people came dressed

up as really weird characters.

You could have noticed a tall guy

half disco vampire half Dutch

tourist, the new pope, a Mexi-

can man, Dionysus, a facebook

page and a sexy nun...

But this party was just the be-

ginning. Then, on Sunday, we

all gathered on the roof of the

Youth Center to drink, to get

dressed with angel wings and to

be psychologically prepared for

parading. When we went down

and walked in the streets to join

the heart of the parade, we met

plenty of people all shouting and

dancing. Every groups of the

Carnival were waiting along the

ipapadis street in an atmosphere

of joy and happiness helped by

tsipouro. After half an hour, we

started to walk on the way and

then, everything began to be

blurred and non-sense... i just

remember some crazy people,

streamers and confetti every-

where.

Did you took part of it?

Did you took part of it?Article by: ines, bjArtur, tAAniel

last but not least, we had the op-

portunity to go to Nedousa to join

its traditional carnival which was

one of the most surprising event i’ve

lived. When we entered the village,

three tall and young men spread ash

on our faces and we were invited to

eat and drink at the villagers’ houses.

Then we saw in the village square a

ceremony with a fake wedding and

funeral. To conclude these really fes-

tive days, we held a karaoke party in

the mini-bus with we cwent there,

and it was possible to hear “Touch

me, touch me” once more...

P a s t & P r e s e n t

Did you took part of it?(continues1)

on out last edition of liNK we gived overview of anniversary party [look more

from liNK nr.36]! Now there is time to look back for the events that

have happened after the Anniversary

party.

Did you had chance to take part

of some of these? ...

To Start at friday the 5nd of April we had a concert here in the Youth Center by a Jazz/Blues band. The main floor of the youth center was full as usual, refreshments were served and the band kept the crowd entertained throughout the night.

friday the 12th of April we had presentation of the workshops in the Kalamata park! Students and volunteers from the youth center participating in many different work-shops showed off their skills in everything from salsa and percussion to guitar playing and choir singing. The park was full of people and we hope everyone had a great time.

Greek National Agency info day on 17 about Eu-ropean programs were held in on Kalamatas hotel, more about it read from page 15.

During Sunday 14th of April there were Greece-wide action day to clean environment called “let’s Do it”! Also Youth Centre of Kalamata took part of it and helped to make already quite clean plateia othonos even more cleaner. With music and positive envi-ronment cleaning almost seemed as a holiday, at least the feeling of doing something good!“let’s Do it” is the movement born in 2008 in a little country of Northern Europe – Estonia. 50.000 people came together to get rid of 10.000 tons of illegal garbage from roadsides, forests and towns, cleaning the entire country in just 5 hours. (more info avaliable in website of let’s Do it: http://www.letsdoitworld.org)

P a s t & P r e s e n t

The 20th of april we had a one time only, special portuguese dances workshop merged with greek dances as well. Some gracious guest teachers from portugal came to the youth center to teach traditional portuguese dances and also traditional greek dances were reached. people danced well into the night. + also some live music played in the evening to create even more cozy environment!

Did you took part of it?(continues2)

During 19th of April there were possibility to donate blood right inside of the Youth Centre. More than 30 people came and 17 people were able to give blood! Thank you all of you for the willingness to take part of this action!

The Greek National Agency foundation for Youth and lifelong learning, which manages the European programmes “Youth in Action & Eurodesk” held an informative event for the European programmes “Youth in Action & Eurodesk” on Wednesday, the 17th of April 2013 from 10:00 am to 13:00 at pharae palace Hotel (Navarinou and riga ferraiou street) with the con-tribution of the organization Social Youth Development.

The main topics that were present-ed during the event were the Euro-

pean programmes that are managed by the foundation for Youth and lifelong learning as well as European projects which are related to youth mobility in Eu-rope. Some more topics covered during the event are the “EUrES” programme, which was presented by Mrs. Nikolopou-lou Stauroula, the Second Chance School, presented by Georgia Gallou, the “Youth

in Action” programme, the EUroDESK programme and the European Youth Card. Social Youth Development organi-zation was presented by the project coor-dinator fotini Arapi and there was also a presentation made by an EVS volun-teer, irene, which surprised everybody as she talked about her experience here in Greece as a volunteer and she managed to do the whole presentation in Greek.

info Day about European programs

Article by: GeorGiA

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TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

21.30 – 23.00 Sign

language beginners

21.30 – 22.30 Sign Language

(beginners)

19.00 – 20.00 Italian

advanced

22.00 - 23.00

Cine projection

22.00 - 23.00

Swing / rock n' roll

22.00 - 23.00

Latin beginners

2

22.00 - 23.00

22.00 - 23.00

Latin advanced 1 Serbian 21.00 -

22.00

Cinema

Spanish advanced

Tai Chi

Arabic beginners

Latin advanced 2

German (advanced)

German (beginners)

Portu-guese

Beginners

20.00 - 21.00

Spanish beginners

321.00 - 22.00

Theater  workshop Lithuanian

21.00 - 22.00

Latin beginners

1

21.00 - 22.00

21.00 - 22.00

Yoga beginners

2 Choir

20.00 - 21.00 Tango

beginners

Guitar for children 2

20.00 - 21.00

Spanish beginners

2

19.00 - 20.00

Contemporary dance

1

Guitar for adults

19.00 - 20.00

Portu-guese

AdvancedGreek for foreigners (advanced)

PaintingSign

language advanced

Contemporary dance

2

19.00 - 20.00

Hip-Hop beginners

Do  It  Yourself  

German (advanced)

19.00 - 20.00

Μusic Improvisati

on

20.00 - 21.00

Self Defense

for women

Estonian 20.00 - 21.00

Guitar for children

18.00 - 19,00

Per-cussion

French advanced 3

18.00 - 19,00

Greek for foreigners

(beginners)19.00 - 20.00

Italian beginners

3

17.00 - 18,00

18.00 - 19,00

Spanish beginners

1

French beginners

1

18.00 - 19,00

Theory of Music

18.00 - 19,00

Traditional dances

advanced Per-cussion

French beginners

2

17.00 - 18,00

Traditional dances

beginners

English (Conversation Group)

17.00 - 18,00

French beginners 3

17.00 - 18,00

Creative occu-

paction for children 1

Italian beginners

1

Αραβικά (προχωρη

µένοι)

17.00 - 18,00

Creative occu-

paction for children 2

Italian beginners

2

Workshops' program of KENTRO NEON KALAMATAS

Youth Center is open from Monday to Thursday

www.ngokane.org - Tel: (+30)2721110740

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

program of Youth Centre (2013 April) [in English]

TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

1st floor 2nd floor / big room

2nd floor /small room

21.30 – 23.00 Sign

language beginners

21.30 – 22.30 Sign Language

(beginners)

19.00 – 20.00 Italian

advanced

22.00 - 23.00

Cine projection

22.00 - 23.00

Swing / rock n' roll

22.00 - 23.00

Latin beginners

2

22.00 - 23.00

22.00 - 23.00

Latin advanced 1 Serbian 21.00 -

22.00

Cinema

Spanish advanced

Tai Chi

Arabic beginners

Latin advanced 2

German (advanced)

German (beginners)

Portu-guese

Beginners

20.00 - 21.00

Spanish beginners

321.00 - 22.00

Theater  workshop Lithuanian

21.00 - 22.00

Latin beginners

1

21.00 - 22.00

21.00 - 22.00

Yoga beginners

2 Choir

20.00 - 21.00 Tango

beginners

Guitar for children 2

20.00 - 21.00

Spanish beginners

2

19.00 - 20.00

Contemporary dance

1

Guitar for adults

19.00 - 20.00

Portu-guese

AdvancedGreek for foreigners (advanced)

PaintingSign

language advanced

Contemporary dance

2

19.00 - 20.00

Hip-Hop beginners

Do  It  Yourself  

German (advanced)

19.00 - 20.00

Μusic Improvisati

on

20.00 - 21.00

Self Defense

for women

Estonian 20.00 - 21.00

Guitar for children

18.00 - 19,00

Per-cussion

French advanced 3

18.00 - 19,00

Greek for foreigners

(beginners)19.00 - 20.00

Italian beginners

3

17.00 - 18,00

18.00 - 19,00

Spanish beginners

1

French beginners

1

18.00 - 19,00

Theory of Music

18.00 - 19,00

Traditional dances

advanced Per-cussion

French beginners

2

17.00 - 18,00

Traditional dances

beginners

English (Conversation Group)

17.00 - 18,00

French beginners 3

17.00 - 18,00

Creative occu-

paction for children 1

Italian beginners

1

Αραβικά (προχωρη

µένοι)

17.00 - 18,00

Creative occu-

paction for children 2

Italian beginners

2

Workshops' program of KENTRO NEON KALAMATAS

Youth Center is open from Monday to Thursday

www.ngokane.org - Tel: (+30)2721110740

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

program of Youth Centre (2013 April) [in English]

S p e c i a l R e p o r t s

We have saved people from hunger, we will save them from occupation: Greek solidarity facing the destruction of the public healthcare system

right now, in Greece, the number of unemployed people is close to half a

million, and 60% of those are youngsters. The birth rate has lowered and child mal-nutrition has increased. from 2010 to 2011, HiV infections increased 52% and the sui-cide rate increased 17%. Since 2010 that the Human Development index is decreasing – an index built with data regarding health, education and income, which was growing without interruption since the 80’s. Will we, soon, replace the clichés «portugal is not Greece» or «Greece is not ireland» for «southern Europe is not Africa?»in Greece, if you are unemployed over one year or if you owe money to the government – taxes or an unpaid ticket – you lose the right to the public healthcare system. This

means you can go to the emergency room, although you will have to pay for a signifi-cant tax, but you will not be assisted in the public sector – in treatments or medication – in case of chronic or long-term disease. in July 2011, the Greek government, grati-fying the bankers, robbed the taxpayers and reformed its’ health system. The European Commission said that the healthcare re-form is considered a crucial component of Greece’s efforts to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of public spending, adding opportunities to reduce costs significantly, without compromising health-care quality. And like this, for the first time in the history of the Welfare State, long-term unemployed people have to pay for medical assistance. Similar to what happens in the United States

We have saved people from hunger, we will save them from occupation: Greek solidarity facing the destruction of the public healthcare system

of America, where unemployment and dis-ease together represent a death sentence: a study from the Harvard University, in 2009, concluded that about 45 thousand Ameri-cans die every year for lack of treatments. Greece is now below the european aver-age in public health expenditure per capi-ta. oECD reports conclude that the Greek public health expenditure increased in av-erage, per year, 6.1% from 2000 to 2009, but decreased, just from 2009 to 2010, 6.5%. Solidarity actions in this field have therefore grown. There are presently, in the whole country, about 25 solidarity clinics, many of them belonging to municipalities. Most of these clinics were created in the past year, with the aggravation of the crisis and after the healthcare systems’ reform. in Kalamata, in southern Greece, in the Mes-sinia region, i found the Social Solidarity Clinic of Kalamata, born from spontaneous and citizen initiative. it works in the old hospital of Kalamata, with donated equip-ment and with exclusively volunteer work – secretaries, doctors, nurses, dentists and

social workers. it responds to the needs of citizens excluded from the public structures, like the National Healthcare System or the Social Security, re-gardless of their nationality. it provides pri-mary medical cares, through the services of internal Medicine, pediatrics, Ultra-Sounds and Dentist. it has its’ own pharmacy, sup-plied exclusively by donations, that allows to give the necessary medication to the pa-tients in the moment of their appointment. The Clinic is part of the Social Solidarity Clinics Network, which unites other sibling projects at a national level, as well as doc-tors and specialists working in the public or private system, that volunteer to reinforce and complement the provided services. in

Article by: sAndrA

S p e c i a l R e p o r t s

Kalamata, the Network has about 50 doc-tors, 6 private clinics, 7 dentists and 4 pedi-atricians. When the Clinic cannot respond to the needs of a patient, like in the case of specialized exams, surgeries or complicated treatments, the responsible doctors connect with other Network specialists to make sure the patient is submitted to the right proce-dure, without any cost. one of the volunteer doctors in internal Medicine in the Social Solidarity Clinic of

Kalamata is Dr. poulopoulos. i have seen his work during a few mornings and met some of his patients: an elderly with renal failure in need of regular hemodialysis, a man in

need of a cardiovascular surgery, a mother with acute depression, a pregnant teenager, another man with diabetes in need for an exam to the coronary arteries. Many other people look just for medication, which they can no longer purchase with the co-partici-pation of the government. Dr. poulopoulos, that lets me follow his appointments and translates to me his pa-tients’ worries, has worked in the public hospital for 20 years, in the Nephrology Service, until he swapped the hard working conditions in the public sector for a private clinic and for the volunteer work in the Sol-idarity Clinic. He accuses the public system

of degenerating and of a dangerous loss of efficiency. The hospitals are full of debts and with shortage on doctors, nurses, special-ists, equipments or medication.

Why volunteer? i think people have to take things into their own hands. Sol-idarity, in these times, is a great strug-gle for democracy. My real wish is to see them standing up and fighting back, for their dignity and for their rights. i want to see them participate in this struggle, to prevent fear to push them to fascism. it is worth to note that Golden Dawn, the Greek fascist party, has 10% of the vot-ers and 18 members in the parliament. The rise of fascism in Greece is worrying and is parallel to a dangerous physical and emotional weakness of the general population. The Welfare State, precious to any citizen, has always been crucial for the emigrant people who arrive in very hard life conditions. right now, Dr. poulopoulos alerts, many of these peo-ple, with no possibilities of preventing or treating diseases, living in poverty, witness health problems that had been solved in the 50’s.Another problem peaks, subtlety, behind the destruction of the Welfare State. Even considering that a small part of the pop-ulation could afford the private health system, it is deceptive. The private sys-tem is a bubble: it seems stronger than

S p e c i a l R e p o r t s

it really is. When the public system fails, there will be no real alternative.Manolis is a radiologist and a volunteer in the Clinic, while he waits for the sec-ond part of his internship, in Athens. He has built the patients’ registration system, created and organized the pharmacy. His motivation seems endless - and it is, in his opinion, the fundamental tool for the growth of solidarity and self-organiza-tion. He tells me, concerned, if only the private sector survives, health will enter the market logic and will be sold in what conditions and at what prices? How to save a public system we have paid for

and built through generations? How to stop our fellow citizens, and next door neighbors, to suffer from hunger, disease or from an immoral capitalist slavery?is popular self-organization possible? Dr. poulopoulos answers me: when Greece was occupied by Germany, the German soldiers took all the food to the battle fronts. To save people from hunger, the Greeks creat-ed solidarity committees – that originated the National liberation front – and creat-ed their own army, Hellas. Their slogan was «we have saved people from hunger, we will save them from occupation».

Can you make a little presentation of yourself?i’m Bjartur, i’m a 20 year old icelandic guy. i like dogs, some cats, nature, beer and i really really like volunteering.

Why did you Choose this projeCt, and Why in GreeCe?i was looking to get out of iceland and experi-ence something new. i knew of the EVS project from a friend of mine and i signed up for a post list of interesting EVS projects. Eventually this one here in Kalamata popped up and i just im-mediately applied and was eventually accepted to come. it didn’t hurt that i was already really interested in Greece 

if you had to ChanGe somethinG in GreeCe, What Would it be ? i would lower the price of beer. Seriously, i don’t know. i would like to tackle the way people look at the structure of the society, the government etc. of course Greek people have some good reasons not to trust their politicians, etc, but when the people lack trust in the fundamental institutions that make up their society is has a negative effect on everybody.

you Come from the exotiC Country Called iCeland, do you think that your skin Will survive durinG the summer-time, or are you anxious about it ?i am a vampire viking. When the summer sun

gets too strong i will wear my big black woolen cloak and go hunting for fresh meat. Besides, lying on the beach is no fun anyway, i prefer sleeping in my casket.

if your projeCt Was CanCelled for any reasons (eatinG a Cat, vomitinG on fo-tini’s piano etC...), What Will you do then?if my project was cancelled i’d start bartending in Kitaro, or more probably become mayor of Kalamata and reinstate the youth center with a bigger house, a pool and a proper god damn bar.

your Greek lovers Would like to knoW the seCret of your natural beauty... What Will you ansWer to them?Eat a lot of corn flakes, smile like an idiot at everyone and have good genes. Mostly just the genes.

let’s be serious, if you Would be a floWer - WhiCh one and Why?This is getting silly. interview is over now. Thanks for reading!

“The viking” in his natural habitatinterviewer: ines

interviewee: bjArtur

EVS VolUNTEEr

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What are you doinG here in kala-

mata?

it’s exactly four years (16-04-13) since i

came here to Kalamata. My decision to

come here was a brave decision, because

i was an alcoholic and doing hard nar-

cotics. i came to join the Therapy Center

for Dependent individuals (KETHEA,

from its initials in Greek; Kentro Thera-

peias Exartimenon Atomon). KETHEA

is a self-managed legal entitity of private

law and comes under the ausppices of the

ministry of health and social solidarity. it’s

a Drug free programme, therapeutic pro-

grams do not employ pharmaceutical sub-

stances for treatment.

My goal was to adopt a new way of life and

behaviour and a new value system, which

make me able to face life’s challenges and

difficulties related to alcohol and drugs.

The main point is that i’m back in social

reintegraton or social activation.

When and hoW did you beCome in-

volved in the youth Center?

i came in contact with the youth center

through the therapeutic programme i

talked about above.

iNTErViEW WiTH A loCAl VolUNTEEr MACWAiA SAloUM froM TANzANiA (also known to us as Mac)

What do you do here in the youth

Center?

The first time i was here just for Greek les-

sons, but later i found out that i can do

many other things apart of lessons; vol-

unteerism, exchanging ideas with many

volunteers from other countries, making

new friends, learning about other cultures

apart of Greek. it’s really a fantastic expe-

rience here at the youth centre. i feel that

we are a family. Apart from all their prob-

lems people here are always wearing smil-

ing faces, dancing, happiness, love. Help-

ing each other. This is a great word “help”

when you help somebody first of all and

then yourself.

have you done any volunteer Work?

in general volunteering means “solidarity”.

i’ve been doing it for the past two years here

at Kalamata. i started with DHiMoTiKA

pANiopolEio and also KoiNoNiKo

iATrEio (Social Clinic), where i give my

services until today.

What are your thouGhts on volun-

teerinG in General?

Volunteering means supporting each oth-

er, love, a strong person is not the one with

power, or body builder. it’s the one who

gives a hand to someone who has fallen,

in order to stand up on his knee. people

should know what is solidarity, and have

to be informed what is volunteering.

any adviCe you have for other and

neW volunteers?

My advice to other volunteers is to

never give up even if someone refus-

es to give you a hand or refuses your

help.

iNTErViEW WiTH A loCAl VolUNTEEr MACWAiA SAloUM froM TANzANiA (also known to us as Mac)

interviewer: bjArtur

interviewee: MAcwAiA

E n t e r t a i n m e n t

TeddyBear TiME travelling

Teddy Bear decided to take some time off and go travel, and after he found a mysteri-ous time travelling machine in the Youth Center (loic’s green sunglasses) he decided to go travel in TiME!!!

• Teddy Bear starts inAncient Athens to see Socra-tes. Unfortunately he comes at a very bad time :(

• TeddytravelstoJudaeain the past and out of nowhere there’s a huge flood! luckily some guy comes by on a real-ly, really big boat. Unfortunate-ly for Teddy, the boat is full of animals of all species, and all of them a couple! So it was quite a lonely boat ride.

Article: bjArtur

PhotoeditinG: loic

• ThenTeddydecides to go toAn-cient rome to experience some culture. Unfortunately all he finds is some guys in dresses arguing all the time! That’s certainly not the way we work at the Youth Center!

• Afterthathemakesashortdetourto ancient Egypt. He of course discovers that egyptians really were sideways and funny looking back then, just like on the pictures. Teddy never learned to walk like an egyp-tian, so this was a short stop.

• French Revolution! Teddy wentto france to have a relaxing time, but ev-erybody was waving their guns :(

• FinallyTeddyisinthemoodto meet some great men. These three look like they’re good friends, and they’re definitely celebrating some-thing. What it is Teddy can’t real-ly know, but he’s glad he could join them.

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Hi my name is Fotini Ara-pi and I am project man-ager at K.A.NE. organi-sation. I started working here in September 2011 and fell in love with the Youth Centre, its dynamic and most of all its incred-ible team of foreign and local volunteers! See you around :-D

Hi everybody!My name is Angela, I am 24 and I come from Cre-ta. Some words about me: I hate sports, I love meeting new people and at this period of my life I am really interested in searching the mean-ing of life - if by chance you find it, please con-tact me. This year I am working with the volun-teers of the Youth Cen-ter and coordinating its projects and activities.

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Dorian Agnel / 21 / Work-ing as a volunteer in horseriding school with children with disabilities and teach French and Swing dance in youth centre / My project start-ed in September 2012 and will last 1 year

Kaja Napotnik / 22 / Slo-venia / likes long walks, reading, dancing, volun-teering and eating choco-late / volunteer at Farma Fifa on the project “Natu-ral farming and environ-mental awarness” / from October 2012 to August 2013

Loic MARCHAND / 27 / French / likes penguin, origami, Turkish movies and the waffles / volunteer in K.A.NE. Youth Centre from September 2012 to September 2013 >>

Coucou, my name is Inès, I’m 18 years old and I’m French. I like music, cin-ema, Kokostavros and playing ukulele. Since Oc-tober, I work in the Youth Center where I’m teach-ing french and guitar for children.I will come back to France at the beggining of Au-gust, so I’m looking for-ward to summertime in Kalamata.

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Taaniel Stoitšev / 20 / Estonian / likes nature, different music, mean-ingful conversations and biking & much more to be honest / volunteer in K.A.NE. Youth Centre with e-structures - from September 2012 to Sep-tember 2013

Hello to everyone!My name is Georgia. I am 24 years old and I live in Kalamata. I spent the last 5 years in Ath-ens doing my Bache-lor in Management and Business Administration and the last year in the Netherlands continuing my studies for a Mas-ter’s degree. I am glad to be back to Kalamata after all those years, es-pecially since I am a new member of “K.A.NE.”. I am happy to be part of this organization

I’m Bjartur and I’m a 20 year old guy from Iceland.I’m an EVS volunteer and I will be working at the youth center in Ka-lamata for the next 7 months. I’m very interested in Greek culture and history as well as politics and social change. If you have any questions about the frozen north feel free to ask me!

Hi, my name is Marisa Carvalho/ vol-unteer of Program Leonardo Da Vinci/ 23 years old/ Portuguese.I studied Science of Education and School AdministrationW Some words about me: I like music, cinema, reading, meeting new peo-ple.

Diana Dias / 23 / Portu-gal / I am a volunteer at Farma Foifa with Ieva and Kaja and I’m glad to be in Kalamata again! ;)

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Leonard Pristl / 18 / I love going for skiing in the winter, I love the white mountains and the nature but I also fell in love with the sea and the beaches here / I work in ΚΕΦΙΑΠ Μεσσηνίας from January 2013 to January 2014 as a EVS volunteer.

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 fac-tor of change.

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Hi! I’m TeddyBear! I know I look younger than I am ;) I like to hug peo-ple around Youth Center and also I enjoy to work in a office after all peo-ple have left! I’m a magic teddybear :) Most of the time I just look around the Youth Center and ba-sically am as cute as I am!! I don’t remember when my “project” start-ed, but I hope to be here at least as long as I al-ready have:)

Gianluca Barbin / 28 / Italian / likes reading narrative and sociologi-cal book, running, watch movies, use the bicycle, draw and paint, make manual works and mag-ic tricks / volunteer in Κεντρο Ημερας for the children with autism and in K.A.NE. Youth Centre for the italian lessons, from October 2012 to April 2013

Jelena Scepanovic / 27 / Montene-gro / volunteer in K.A.NE. Youth Cen-tre from November 2012 to November 2013

Ieva Medinytė / 19 / Lithuania / interests: nature, learning, ex-ploring (places, people, myself) / Volunteer at Farma Fifa (Αγρόκτημα Φοίφα): helping with daily farm maintenance and supporting ongo-ing projects (permacul-ture education, re:think, etc.) / September 2012 – June 2013

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Manuela Gascon / 23 years old / France / I like music, volley-ball, wine, cinema, laughing, long nights with my friends, eating watermelons / vol-unteer in the Youth Cen-ter – organization and communication of Miden Festival / From Septem-ber 2012 to August 2013 :)

My name is Irene, I am 27 years old and I am coming from Spain. I studied Classical Phi-lology and one of my dreams was to come to Greece, so here I am! I work at the Youth Center of Kalamata, I am Span-ish teacher and I also help with the general or-ganization of the Youth Center and its activities and events. My project started in September 2012 and I will be here until September 2013!

Hi everybody, I’m Alice, I am 25 and I come from Toulouse, in the south of France. I studied sciences of educa-tion and I work as an animator with children.I enjoy travelling. I arrived in Kala-mata a week ago, and I’ll stay since august. I will work for the horse rid-ing project and for KEKYKAmeA.

Sandra Coelho / 27 / Portugal / likes alternative media, photography, freuds’ dream interpretation, playing guitar, camping, travelling and dis-covering natures’ magic creations. Working as Leonardo Da Vinci intern at K.A.NE. Youth Center from Febru-ary to April 2013.

Diana Dias / 23 / Portu-gal / I am a volunteer at Farma Foifa with Ieva and Kaja and I’m glad to be in Kalamata again! ;)

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