Association/ Union
Founded in
2014
Address
Pylaias 17, 54454, Kato Toumpa ,Thessaloniki
pervolaridesthessaloniki@gmail.com
Phone number
+30 6983324528
Organization's page in social networks
https://www.facebook.com/PervolaridesThessalonikis/
https://www.instagram.com/pervolarides_thessalonikis/?hl=el
https://twitter.com/PervolaridesSKG
Description of the organization
Pervolarides Thessaloniki, Greece is a voluntary group in the wider area of Thessaloniki in the form of a non-profit association, with the main purpose of existence the promotion of social solidarity and permaculture.
Our group was founded in 2013 via a group of active citizens and started as a grassroots movement to meet the needs created by the economic and social crisis in recent years.
Based on food and the relationships formed throughout the food cycle (from seeding and cultivation, harvesting, processing and cooking, to the reclamation and processing of wasted food), we consistently engage with following areas:
- Social kitchen: We cook for our fellow citizens, the homeless and people in need. We share our recipes and stories. Collective cooking provides the foundation for social cooperation and solidarity.
- Food reclamation: We reclaim food that is close to its expiration date or cannot be sold due to packaging. We also recover fruit, vegetables, fish, baked goods that would otherwise end up in the landfill.
- We grow fruit and vegetables with the method of permaculture, collecting rainwater and composting materials we don't need. We are experimenting with the cultivation methods of raised beds and hugelkultur. We strive for our nutritional self-sufficiency. We wish to regenerate not only traditional farming techniques, but also relationships in the community.
- Beekeeping: is a traditionally collaborative process that teaches us how to work with bee populations to produce organic honey, while supporting the natural regeneration process by nurturing nature's pollinators.
- Workshops on household self-sufficiency and food sovereignty. Through the exchange of recipes, ideas and knowledge we are empowered as we save food which we turn into sauces, jams, sweets, pickles, pies etc.
- Collaborative and community empowerment workshops within the framework of the Do-It-Yourself culture on making seed bombs, insect hotels, composting, gardening, food rescue, etc.
- Activities related to informing the community on issues such as food waste, food sovereignty, destruction of the natural environment of bees, soil degradation, cleaning and regeneration of abandoned spaces, urban sustainability, systemic change as well as defense of the commons.
- Synergies with public schools and social agencies through the provision of consultancy and expertise in food processing and the development of zero waste communities.
- Exchange of good practices through visits to similar organizations from Germany on the basis of co-operative housing and the social and solidarity economy (SSE).
Actions that the organisation has organised or in which it has actively participated
For the last ten years, we have been moving as a growing collective promoting social awareness, mobilization and collaborative actions, uniting locals and refugees, empowering vulnerable people and our community as a whole of building endurance through solidarity.
Our holistic approach is unique in the aspect of it allows everyone to interact and to be mobilized through collective activities and solidarity actions, helping them to overcome exclusion and discrimination and to heal divisions and inequalities.
We create democratic hubs where people of all ages, nationalities and
of social standing, assembled to express themselves freely and equally, in due to co-create with their neighbors, and to collectively offer support and resources to those who are in need.
Consecutive in solidarity, we solve social, economic and environmental challenges, fueling our social and environmental well-being.
We are a community that persue to empower to all citizens to join based on their needs, skills and resources, so that we can mobilize collectively to pave the way for healthy and each others harmonious coexistence"For the last ten years, we have been moving as a growing collective promoting social awareness, mobilization and collaborative actions, uniting locals and refugees, empowering vulnerable people and our community as a whole of building endurance through solidarity.
Our holistic approach is unique in the aspect of it allows everyone to interact and to be mobilized through collective activities and solidarity actions, helping them to overcome exclusion and discrimination and
to heal divisions and inequalities.
We create democratic hubs where people of all ages, nationalities and
of social standing, assembled to express themselves freely and equally, in due to co-create with their neighbors, and to collectively offer support and resources to those who are in need.
Consecutive in solidarity, we solve social, economic and environmental challenges, fueling our social and environmental well-being.
We are a community that persue to empower to all citizens to join based on their needs, skills and resources, so that we can mobilize collectively to pave the way for healthy and each others harmonious coexistence and also with our environment.
Volunteering opportunities provided by the organization.
All the practices we apply are directly intertwined with the empowerment and involvement of the local community and unite people of different origins (age, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, etc.), while it wouldn't be possible to carry out without the participation of the people who come to our open calls.
We support and promote a way of life in which regenerative practices (which aim to improve or ""regenerate"" interpersonal relationships, social cohesion and ecological consciousness) are applied in our daily actions, and reflected in our vision that we have for our community us as a undivided set of its members.
There is no limit to participation, we operate all year round.
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