Cultural / Sports
 
Present day inhabitants of Mouttagiaka, most of them being refugees from all of the areas of occupied Cyprus and while expecting the much desired day of return to their occupied villages, did not remain idle but -in their effort to offer the best to their children -have created the infrastructure for Community welfare, cultural development and sports.

Two Sports and Cultural Clubs are operating today in the Mouttagiaka Community, AEM and Anorthosi, which participate in rural soccer leagues and provide to the youth the opportunity of getting involved with sports.

They have also created dancing clubs and every year they organise their annual balls. Other organised groups in our community are the Parents Associations of the Regional Primary School and the Public Community Kindergarten, the 281st Scout System of Mouttagiaka, the Hunting Club, the Local Committee of Parents With Many Children, the association of Orthodox Women of the Parish, and the Council for Community Welfare of Mouttagiaka which consists all the organised groups of the community.

Council for Community Welfare of Mouttagiaka (C.C.W.)

With the initiative of the Community Council, the Council for Community Welfare of Mouttagiaka was formed in 1995, consisted out of all the organised groups of the community, and is functioning successfully under the presidency of the President of the Community Council Vasos Koumparos. The result of this effort was the creation of a privately owned, multiple function centre which today houses three programs: the Children's Club, which engages children aged 2-15 and has a total of 25 children, the Infant's Station, which engages children aged one month to 2 years and has a total of 5 children, and the Nursery Station which engages children aged 2-5 and has a total of 17 children. The C.C.W. aims to help the children socialise through the love, affection, care, and entertainment offered by young, trained individuals, who have love and understanding for the work that they perform. The weekly schedule includes free activities, lessons on subjects that relate to events of everyday life, gymnastics, group games, fairytales, puppet shows, singing, painting, handicraft activities, health habits, ways of behaviour, social education, serving each other, self-serving, and others. Because of the parents' great interest, pretty soon the C.C.W. premises will expand and the C.C.W. aspires to expand its programs too.

A.E.M.

After the mandatory settlement of the refugees in the village of Mouttagiaka, because of the Turkish invasion, a group of inhabitants were mobilised in 1983 for the creation of the Sports Union of Mouttagiaka (Athlitiki Enosi Mouttagiakas). The Popular Organisations of Mouttagiaka make their presence intensely felt within the community through their activity in the Political, Sports, and Cultural sectors. The highlight of their activities is their annual ball, organised every year in the summer during the month of August. The goal of the Union is to bring into action the youth in matters that relate to sports and also to other healthy activities. The soccer department dates back to 1989 and is still preserved, taking part in the EPOL championship. During recent years it has also founded a dancing department, providing to the youth the opportunity to occupy themselves with traditional as well as modern dances. An ambition of the Union is to set forth other departments e.g. Theatre, Ping-Pong, etc.
Mr Theodore Theodorou is the president of AEM.

Anorthosi Mouttagiakas

Anorthosi Mouttagiakas was founded on the 31st of August, 1989. The goals and aims of the club are the cultivation of the Spirit of Sports and the social and ethnic education of its members. With that spirit in mind they have created a soccer team within the club. Parallel to that they have created an extensive library so as to make it possible for members to borrow books for their own education and entertainment. Every year they organise their annual ball which occurs in the autumn, in mid October.
Mr Andreas Panagi is the president of the Anorthosi club.

Parents Association of the Primary School

The Parents Association of the Primary School of Mouttagiaka has been operating for 27 years, the same number of years as the school itself.
The first inhabitants that joined the community, driven out of their villages by the Turkish invasion of 1974, were hoping that they would soon return to them. However, time went by and they realised that the struggle for return would be hard and also long. Under these circumstances the first association was created, and with the help of the state and the teachers they managed to operate the old Turkish school that consisted of two classes. That occurred during the class of 1975-76.
With the obligatory settlement of more refugees, the school begun to develop and grow, always with the voluntary help of the -now organised -parents.
Since its foundation and up until today, the Association has made its presence intensely felt in the community with the organisation of various events like: the planting of trees, book fairs, educational seminars for parents and the youth, but also events of recreational nature.
The Association is one of the first throughout the district that has been registered as a legal entity, according to the Parents Association Law.
The last three years the school has been turned into a regional Primary School and serves children from the neighbouring Armenohori. As a consequence the Association was renamed as Parents Association of the Regional Primary School of Mouttagiaka.

281st Scout System of Mouttagiaka

Ioannis Avraamides founded the Scout System of Mouttagiaka on The 6th of January 1985. It was housed in a small house that was allotted to them, for a small renting fee, by the Turkish-Cypriot Properties Administration Service.
The mission of scouting consists in contributing, in educating the kids and the youths through a system of values based on the Scouts' Oath and Law. Helping for the building of a better world, where humans will be integrated individuals and will be able to play a constructive role in society.
The Scouts' Law is a code of living that demands from each scout to practice his/her religious duties, his/her duty to the Country, to the Family and to Society; to be virtuous, abstemious and noble-minded, to have self-confidence and to assume the responsibility of his/her actions, to love and respect ones self, ones fellow human beings and the environment.

The Hunting Club "Savva Savva"

The Hunting Club was founded in 1986 and was renamed as The "Savvas Savva" Hunting Club in memory of Gamekeeper Savvas Savva, who died in the line of duty in 19…. The goal of the Hunting Club is to organise hunters and to properly train and educate them to acquire a hunting awareness, to uphold the Law about Quarry for the protection, preservation and development of quarry. Also, the rational practice of hunting, the protection of the natural environment, and the avoidance of causing damage to agricultural crops. The Hunting Club ha 150 members and its president is Mr Polivios Paraskevas.

Committee of Parents with Many Children

The Local Committee of Parents with Many Children has 5 members that are elected by a local general assembly of the members, summoned by the District Committee. For the year 2002, Mr Panikos Giannakou was elected president of the Local Committee of Parents with Many Children. Some of the duties of the Local Committee are to promote the goals of the Pan-Cyprian Organisation of Parents with Many Children, to apply the decisions and instructions of the District Committee, to register as members all the parents with many children that live within the community, to collect and transfer problems, requests, and suggestions from the members of the Local Committee to the District Committee and the Central Administrative Board and the Pan-Cyprian Congress, to organise displays that promote the purposes of the Organisation and the interests of the members of the Local Committee.

Association of Orthodox Women of the Parish

The Association of Orthodox Women of the Holly Temple of St. Eleftherios was founded March 17, 2000. The members elected Mrs Marie Michael as president. The purpose of the association is the religious, spiritual, and humanitarian contribution of its members to the community, that being achieved with the setting up in the parish of speeches, rummage sales, religious celebrations, as well as many other activities.