SI MONTHLY NEWS November 2006 Countries
From SI Exco News
Servas Greece Re-esablishment Project
Dear Friends;
Servas Turkiye had the reponsibity to reestablish Servas Greece 8 months ago from SI EXCO, we have been working for this project and had new members from Greece.
We wish to print them in new Servas Turkiye Host List 2007. This students from Greek Universities year were invited for Summer & Winter semester to Turkiye, you all welcome…
Any of Servas members who knows any Greek friends around the world, please inform them about this project to become a Servas member.
Your e-mails will be replied when you send to greece[at]servas.org
Servas DUYGAN (Servas Turkiye National Secretary)
Turkey
Servas Turkiye started a book collecting campaign for the primary school in Tacirli village which is situated in one of the eastern cities of Turkiye. Within the context of this project about twelve boxes of books were collected from different parts of Turkiye and sent to the school. The library has now around 300 books and the campaign is still on its way to provide more educational resources to the teachers and the villagers.
To appreciate the support of the people for this project Servas Turkiye has donated for seeding 225 oak trees by the name of Tacirli Primary School.
Ozge Karadenizli, Peace Secretary, Servas Turkiye
Some information about Kazakhstan:
Many greetings from Kazakhstan! I would like to announce that Servas just launched it's service in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan is a quite a young country. It obtained independence during the 1990s. Kazakhstan is situated in Central Asia region. It borders with Russia to the North, with China to the East, with the Caspian Sea to the West and with Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turmenistan to the South. Kazakhstan historically has connection with Mongolia, that was happening during 12-13 centuries when great Chingiskhan first entered here. Then there were the times of influence of the Soviet Union. Some people compare Kazakhstan with United States, moreover it's absolutely interesting to see mixture of different nationalities here. Eastern and Asian cultures starts and finishes here in Central Asia. On the streets among the local Kazakhs it is possible to see Russians, Koreans, Germans, Ukrainians and many others who came here and settled after the Second World War.
about Kazakhstan:
People are interested in Kazakhstan mainly to experience extreme tourism and wild tourism. Kazakhstan is very large and its nature very diverse -very flat, steppe, dry on the North and quite humid and mountainous on the South but there are some places with forests, lakes, and even canyons.It is possible to experience some days and nights in the steppe cut absolutely from the civilization (people of ultra urbanized countries like it very much), or experience living on the mountains of Tyan Shan. Gourmets can experience absolutely wild and absolutely interesting meal "Beshbarmak" with a burned sheep's head.
Historically Kazakhs are nomads. But nowadays it is quite hard to find a real yurt - a hut, a house that is made of wool, only some people live in the yurts and they mainly reconstructed on national holidays.
Kazakhstan has a great perspectives in the tourism sphere and I would like to invite interested people to see and experience Kazakhstan today.
Zhandos Aitymov
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