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On Sunday 26 March, the Reading Group of the Sitia Self-Help Promotion Program and the collective “Koukoutsi” held an open event in the town of Sitia for the installation of an open-air exchange library.

The library was built with the cooperation of the two groups during the previous period with the common goal of creating a “space” for the free exchange of books between citizens. Children and adults participated in the event by collecting their own books that they wanted to exchange or “donate” them to the library.

For the implementation of the action we would like to thank Mr. Manousakis Manolis, for his selfless contribution to the construction of the library.

Self-Help Promotion Program

The Self-Help Promotion Program bases its mode of operation on contemporary critical approaches to the science of Psychology and other social sciences, as well as the field of addictions. Based on these approaches, the program emphasises the social, political and cultural dimensions of the causes of the problem of addiction and other psychosocial problems. At the same time, people and their needs are placed at the centre of the interventions implemented, with their emancipation and the recovery of their dignity as the main priorities. The central pillars of the interventions carried out by the program are the concept of self-help/mutual aid and the protagonist role of those directly concerned.