Maria Christou sends her own messages to Fasoula Paphos after being abandoned by everyone
He is only 32 years old and is mayor of Fasoula. Maria Christou was elected mayor in the last elections for Local Government and says she is a young man with a vision that has a lot to offer to her place. Maria Christou, 32, was born and raised in Fasoula Paphos, originally from Morphou and Asia Minor. He studied Geotechnology and Environmental Engineer, and has worked on various projects throughout Europe. For this five -year period, he is an appointed alternate member of the European Committee of Regions, which is highly honored, as he said. There are only 35 inhabitants in the small community of Paphos. The mayor sends her own messages to Fasoula, the community built near the west bank of the river of Dimiros and at an average altitude of just 140 meters, after being abandoned by everyone.
Abandonment
He speaks with soul pain and bitterness about abandoning rural areas and small communities. Fasoula is next to the Nikoklia – Kedari road. Through this road it is connected to the northeast with the village of Mamas and to the southwest with the village of Nikoklia. In her statements to “Citizen”, Christou said that the main employment of the locals is agriculture, and livestock farming. Asked, he said that unlike the rest of the villages, they have not been hit by the police, but by the government itself, as he explained, as refugees in a T/C community, they do not allow them to build in Fasula while adding, “in our occupied territories they are building and selling us.” Following the Turkish invasion of 1974, the Turkish Cypriot residents of Fasoula were forced to leave their village and move, along with all the other Turkish Cypriots in the free areas, to settle in the occupied areas. Their transfer was in 1975. They then settled in the village of Greek Cypriots displaced. Unfortunately he noticed, the descendants of refugees in Fasoula want to stay in the community but are not allowed. It is characteristic that unfortunately there is nothing in its community, noting that it “received ruins”.
Priorities
Its vision and priority is to come, as she said, a new world in the village. Although the state is actually trying to erase every trace of small communities, Maria Christou stressed, she still pledged that she would pay any legitimate means to bring “new blood” in her expression to her community. Today he said to the community there are only two students attending the IB Primary School of Pefkios Georgiadis. The little ones go to their school, he explained by bus. Fasoula has hot winters, but this year the mayor said, the temperature was low as in the rest of Cyprus with the lowest temperature reaching -2 degrees, he added.
Going to the small Community of Fasoula, one distinguishes the eucalyptus who offers some parts of the shadow community, hot summer days and dew but also provide the ability to remove mosquitoes. The community also has wild vegetation, like most villages. From a geological point of view, as Polignosi states in the administrative area of the village, the deposits of the formation of Pachna (alternating layers of Cretans, Marga and Psammites), the deposits of the formation of Lefkaras (Cretans, Margins and Keratos), the molds of the Allocaine geological period. On these rocks, calcareous soils were developed, soils of the formation of Mamonia and a prominent soils. In the area of Fasoula, cereals were once cultivated, vineyards of winemaking varieties, olives and locusts, peanuts as well as a few vegetables and legumes. Part of its administrative area is occupied by the State Forest. As far as livestock farming is concerned, in 1973, 32 Turkish Cypriots were raised by 1,368 goats, 900 sheep, 8 oxen, 8 cows and 380 poultry. They were also raised by Greek Cypriots who settled in the village of sheep, goats and chickens, Polignosi reports.
What to see in the fasula
Maria Christou noted that in her community one can visit the Park of Eucalyptus, the Ottoman Mosque for over 100 years, which is also a martyred temple of forty -four martyrs. The small mosque of today’s settlement is the most “fancy” of its few buildings, because it has been recently maintained and restored. He added that in the community there is one and only cafe that has not been operating for years, stating that they are rented by Turkish Cypriots. He must continue, “the asbestos is removed from the roof to be put into operation, which is not planned.” As a result, he continued to pay for years without the administrator being interested. This year it continued, the cooperation is expected to be terminated, as long as there is no support.
The problems
Regarding the problems of Fasoula, the mayor referred to the Armenian dam saying that “we give our water to Kokkinochoria. We buy the water of 0.70 p/kb. From Pissouri. ” We have continued, is to grow in the countryside. Ms Christou said that Fasoula, together with the other communities of the Communities of the Diairis and Apostle Communities, demand that the work of the Arminos Dam is joined in List 1 and get into an implementation track with an environmental impact study. The cluster continued, calling for the Ministry of Agriculture’s positive response to undertake with an external researcher the preparation of the appropriate study to accelerate the procedures and for the costs of the study, estimated from 30 thousand to 40 thousand euros, to cooperate with a ministry program to support them. He also estimates that the provincial administration did not manage properly and sufficient controls on the irrigation council, as he said, for a year they have no water for irrigation purposes.