Libati 17th april 2017

travel water
Written By christina sassayannis
Walking up on the mountain the view of water cistern. Libati has water from two sources from the mountain and two artificial cistern.

Walking up on the mountain the view of water cistern. Libati has water from two sources from the mountain and two artificial cistern.

It's raining cats and dogs. A friend of mine commented  "Ah, these gods!". 

We will stay surely a more night here. The motobike is covered in the garage of Antoni, no better accommodation for both. He is welcoming us and he is open because it’s Easter. We have luck to can stay in his hotel. He is giving us the keys of the hotel after we told him that because the weather we cannot make our trip forward.

 The rain stops a little and I have a walk in Lebati village. This village was burned twice from the German during the Second War. Anastasi tells how the house of his grandmother was burned within his family.  

Anastasi and Georgios lives in Katerini and came to Libati to have the famous sweet in this raining afternoon. They told about a source in the top of the mountain where they went just before I meet them, where the water gives 'you 5 years more of life'. The source and the water is celebrate traditionally the 15th of August every year. 

A fountain on the way on the mountain of Libati

A fountain on the way on the mountain of Libati

christina sassayannis

She founded Through Waters project in 2012. In 2015 Through Waters became an no profit Organization based in Geneva and in 2016 she founded the TW headquarter in Rome.

Father greek and mother swiss she lived always in a international ambience traveling through Europe and South America.

Graduated in Literature and Philosophy High School she became Anthropologist and researcher.

In recent years she focused her interest in the relationship between man and environment. She held various ethnographic research in the field on issues ranging from the relationship between culture and environment and gender difference, migration and life histories (Jordan / Greece / Italy / Sudan / Cambodia / India / China). For several years she has deepened her interest on water, studying the impact of climate change and local policies on the use of water resources.

Valuing water culturally and through art, realizing workshops with children and students, means for her creating awareness and sensitivity, with the goal to protect this fundamental element that gives life.

She wants to develop a new way of dialogue and integration through art building consciousness of the beauty of difference and of human beings worldwide.

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