Wednesday, 22 July to Friday, 31 July 2009 / Olympos Karpathos / Greece

Summer volunteer work program 2009

in Northern Karpathos & Saria Island.

Accepting the invitation from the Management Agency of Karpathos & Saria (http://www.fdkarpathos.gr/)*, we both organized a summer program for volunteers that worked in the pathways, cleaned beaches and organized on their own games in the afternoon for the children in the Management Agency Office in Diafani. For 8 days (22/7 – 31/7) the volunteers [Aspasia, Katerina, Maria, Alexandros, Giannis, George and Manos] worked for the pathways in Xyloskala, Papamina and Axordea and helped cleaning Alimouda, Palatia, Tristomo and Brykounta beach. We were lucky to witness a traditional wedding (26/7) and visit Saint Panteleimonas' celebrations (28/7). Girls where dressed in traditional costumes with the precious help of Mrs Anna Nioti. Many thanks to Yiannis V. Hatzivassilis for giving us - once more - the opportunity to learn more about Olympos tradition through a visit to the museum (http://www.hatzivasili.gr). Many thanks to my colleague Victoria and of course to George and Ntinos, all workers of the Management Agency.

* (Management Agency of the Northern Karpathos, Saria and the surrounding marine area / NATURA 2000 Network – code GR4210003)

All photos are a courtesy of Alexandros Pertsinidis