Excursion to Gra Lygia, Ierapetra

Dear fellow travelers, friends,

The University of the Mountains, a member of the Mountain Partnership – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, continues its actions, with the next visit of its volunteers to Gra Lygia, Ierapetra, on Friday, February 21, 2025.

The planned activities will take place on this excursion, as follows:

-Peer-to-peer teaching of students, with students and teachers, at the 5th Primary School of Ierapetra – Gra Lygias with the participation of students from the Primary School of Nea Anatoli,
-medical examinations by professors of Medicine of the University of Crete with their teams, in vulnerable groups of the local population,
-in the afternoon of the same day, the Cafe of the Mountains will take place, an open discussion with local residents, where issues concerning the people themselves, food, nature, water, self-sufficiency, violence in the family, local crops, livestock, tourism, nutrition, home economics, cottage industries, the production and creation of plant and natural threads for the sacred art of Cretan Weaving will be discussed.