A project to build Greece’s first residential and day-care centre for differently abled citizens on the model of the international Camphill schools movement, here on Skopelos. You can read our Greek-language sister website here

The dream

Inspired by the need to care for her daughter and by the model of the international Camphill schools movement, Machi Papadavid and a group of friends in the same situation set out to build Greece’s first Camphill settlement for special needs citizens here on Skopelos. Below, she explains why. Like other parents here, I have long been…

The Camphill model

While Kery’s Orchard is not yet an official Camphill site, it is inspired by and follows the Camphill Movement model. The Camphill movement was founded in Scotland in 1939 to provide residential and therapeutic care for children and adults with developmental disabilities such as autism, Down Syndrome and other learning difficulties. It has since opened…

The project at Alikias

In consultation with the board of Camphill Skopelos, some of them also the parents of differently abled citizens, the architect Dimitra Gouriotis has produced a plan for the development on land donated by the Papadavid family at Alikias, roughly equidistant between Skopelos Town and Panormos bay in the centre of the island. The finished campus…