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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.
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