Jul 12 2019
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Intercultural and inclusive courses in WELCOMMON HOSTEL open to all: locals, tourists, refugees, volunteers

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Anemos Ananeosis / Wind of Renewal reorganised and started new volunteering projects in our innovative WELCOMMON HOSTEL, which are more inclusive and offer intercultural courses for all: refugees, locals, migrants, volunteers, tourists. “Learn and teach”, is our new moto. The summer schedule started on 4/7/2019 and will be finished by the end of September 2019. The projects are realized with the participation and contribution of many volunteers from all over the world and are in partnership with Humantity Crew, AIESEC as well as with many individuals. Since 2016, Anemos Ananeosis has collaborated with more than 300 volunteers, 30 NGOs and many universities. Be a teacher and at the same time a pupil. We learn from each other.

  

We are offering a great selection of educational courses: language lessons (English, French, Chinese, Turkish etc), painting, photography, drama, music etc and we offer the opportunity to volunteers and our guests/visitors to organize in collaboration with Anemos Ananeosis / Wind of Renewal and the WELCOMMON HOSTEL many intercultural events “knowing better each other like (Greek, USA, Italian, Indian, Ukraine, Pakistan, Scandinavian, Chinese, French… Nights). There are people from all over the world they would like to know better other cultures. Let’s do it together. WELCOMMON HOSTEL means WELCOME in COMMON.

Please have a look at the reception’s board

   

or here www.facebook.com/welcommonhostel

and here  www.facebook.com/daysofwelcommon

or send an email to windofrenewal@gmail.com

  

Stay tuned, Anemos Ananeosis / Wind of Renewal will announce soon the official beginning of its European Solidarity Corps‘ project “Green and Social Innovation for youth” (17.8.2019 until 2021)

Stay connected because there are many events and intercultural nights scheduled throughout the summer in our innovative WELCOMMON HOSTEL

Would you like to support our social and ecological projects?

Although we are very active and try to make our social cooperative and our WELCOMMON Hostel financial sustainable, in order to be able to support our social and ecological projects, we are still in a very difficult financial situation and therefore we are looking for donations and support. Maybe you could contribute to our campaigns. If you like what we are doing, then please:

  • Donate 10, 50, 100, 200, 500 euro (here is our fund raising campaign
    https://gogetfunding.com/save-welcommon/
  • Become a supporter and backer and invite your networks and friends to do the same. If they can donate even a small amount, it is great but most important is  – in order to succeed in our campaign – many persons to support it and become backers. Have a look here how one can do it

Our schedule for the summer

JULY – AUGUST 2019

FRENCH

Beginner’s French: an introductory French class that teaches the very basics, from greetings to creating simple sentences

Mondays, 12.00-14.00

Tuesdays, 12.00-14.00

Wednesday 10.00-12.00

ENGLISH 

Advanced English: an English class that teaches the more complicated aspects of grammar. It is themed towards the professional world, simulating things like job applications and interviews

Beginner’s English: an English class that teaches the very basics of English, like how to form ideas while speaking and writing.

ITALIAN

Tuesdays, 16.00-18.00

Thursdays, 16.00-18.00

Basic level class for beginners, about both culture and language. It will be useful for those that wish to only have a taste of it, but also for limited and short conversations, especially for tourism

CHINESE

Tuesdays 12.00-14.00

Thursdays 12.00-14.00

NEWS and HISTORY A class that combines recent events in the news with historical events in the past to analyze the connection of events that still affect our world.

HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Mondays, 10.00-12.00. An interactive class, created with the goal of giving students a better understanding of what Human Rights are, through discovering their history, finding out how they are today, and relating such with the students own experiences.

HISTORY & NEWS: A class for those who wish to know more about news, both by understanding why we talk about certain facts in a certain way and how to discern real news and reliable news outlets, all of this with discussion and sharing of opinions as a vehicle

CREATIVE WRITING: This class is a mixture, it will both involve the development of writing abilities in the most expressive and free way, and it will also help by giving starting tips on how to write for journalism, how to quote, or do interviews.

STORYTELLING   Mondays, 22/07-05/08: 13.00-14.00

PHOTOGRAPHY  Thursdays, 14.00-16.00

MUSIC 15/07 -05/08, Mondays: 12.00-13.00

DRAMA (4-25/7)

Tuesdays, 10.00-12.00, and 14.00-16.00

Wednesdays, 12.00-14.00

Fridays, 16.00 – 18.00

PAINTING IN AUGUST and beyond

4-25/7 Wednesdays, 14.00-16.00

12/08 until 30/10, Every day 12.00-14.00

@Photos Nikos Chrysogelos, Bailey Marshall
 Photo of the first page by @JetterHalle
Jun 10 2019
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5 important european-level distinctions for Wind of Renewal, the cooperative which runs the WELCOMMON HOSTEL

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We are very proud that our social cooperative enterprise ANEMOS ANANEOSIS / WIND OF RENEWAL has received 5 European-level distinctions for our innovation and contribution to the social economy.

  • A bronze prize in the competition @REVESNetwork #ExcellenceAwards2019

 Two years ago, we were awarded the Special Mention @REVESNetwork #ExcellenceAwards2017 for our #WELCOMMON project, which then involved the hosting and integration of vulnerable refugees.

We are very proud that our social cooperative enterprise ANEMOS ANANEOSIS / WIND OF RENEWAL received the 5th European-level distinction for our innovation and contribution to the social economy. This time, we received the bronze prize in the competition @REVESNetwork #ExcellenceAwards2019 for our active participation in 4 major projects that show (social and green) innovation, they have a social impact to the local community:

  • WELCOMMON HOSTEL, an innovative hostel combining harmonious models of sustainable tourism with social and green economy and innovation, art and the environment. We created it with great effort, without subsidies and with the support of our friends. “We have transformed a former hospital into an innovative hostel that combines sustainable tourism with activities for climate protection and inclusion of migrants and local people in Athens”
  • The “Days of WELCOMMON” Social Empowerment and Integration Program, which we created when our innovative WELCOMMON housing and refugee integration center closed sharply. We then decided to rely on our own strengths, and to make Hostel financially sustainable so that we can self-finance our social and green activities
  • The YESClima program, to educate 11 young people on energy saving and application of natural air conditioning systems. An @EUKI_Climate program, in collaboration with the University of Cádiz at Spain, Secretariat for Future Studies of Free University of Berlin (Sekretariat für Zukunftsstudien Berlin an der Freien Universität Berlin), and the Provincial Energy Agency of Cadiz (APEC), Andalusia, in cooperation with the Municipality of Ag. Dimitriou
  • The CLIMATE SCHOOLS Berlin – Athens program, involving 73 schools, 197 teachers and thousands of students, is focused on awareness-raising, education and mobilization to protect the climate and save energy in schools. It is an @EUKI_Climate project implemented in collaboration with the Independent Environmental Foundation (Berlin), Respect for Greece and the City of Athens
  • European Citizen’s Prize 2018

It is a great honor for Anemos Ananeosis / Wind of Renewal to have been awarded the European Citizen’s Prize on 9th of October 2018, in the European Parliament

 

 

 

  • A Special Mention” award of the REVES Excellence Award 2017

Anemos Ananeosis / Wind of Renewal and its project WELCOMMON center for housing and social inclusion of vulnerable refugees was honored on June 8, 2017 with the “Special Mention” award of the REVES Excellence Award 2017, which aims to strengthen synergies between local / regional authorities and social economy actors, and to highlight the achievements of such cooperation. The evaluation committee consisted of representatives of the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Parliament, the Regional Committee and Social Economy Europe.

    

The French Federation of Social Inclusion Enterprises invited ANEMOS ANANEOSIS / WIND OF RENEWAL to participate in it’s national Congress organized in November 16-17, in Marseille, and presented  the WELCOMMON center for housing and social inclusion of refugees as a “good example of social inclusion in Euro-Med area”.

  • One of the best examples of projects for refugees contributing to the dialogue between the cultures in the Euro-med area

We are awarded as one of the 3 best examples of projects for refugees contributing to the dialogue between the cultures in the Euro-med area (2017 Euro-Med Dialogue Award) by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the Fondazione Mediterraneo. The Bestowing Ceremony took place in Tallinn (16/12/2017) with the support of the Estonian Foreign Ministry.

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May 30 2019
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The importance of  the ethical and alternative banks for funding the social and ecological transition

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Funding the social and ecological transition  

The importance of  the ethical and alternative banks for funding the social and ecological transition – experiences and good examples in Europe

Discussion with Bernard Horenbeek, general manager of the network LA NEF

societe cooperative de finances solidaires

When: 30th of May, 2019, on 18.00

Where: WELCOMMON HOSTEL, Kapodistriou str No 4, 10682 Athens

We will discuss different financial tools and investments with impact; ways citizen initiatives, cooperatives, non-profit companies and cooperative-ethical banks arrange new mechanisms to access, purchase, and fund projects for communities, social and ecological transition.

The discussion will be in English and Greek and is part of “Green and Social Innovation”, a series of public events organised by Wind of Renewal in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Greece

Registration: windofrenewal@gmail.com (name, last name, email, organization)