SAPREJ GOALS
As it is written in the book of James 2:26, saying “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also", the SAPREJ conference’s goal is to work by sharing experience, faith, vision and applied knowledge to alleviate poverty and socio-ecological problems. SAPREJ conference should be held in "vulnerable" countries with acute economic or ecological problems. The reason is humanitarian and spiritually driven as pilgrimage of justice and peace with the needy; a vision that is also shared with the World Council of Churches to tackle poverty and ecojustice.
SAPREJ ORGANIZERS
We are volunteering people who feel the need of acting for more justice and peaceful world free of poverty and ecological destruction.
The motto of our motivation is “religion and science can provide solutions to sustainability problems.
Our goal is to care for the Creation (Earth), sustainability and climate justice. We have different background and faith denomination, ranging from academic researchers to priests. We believe that we need to be open to collaborations and share living experiences in the field of the “needy” societies. Beyond the organization of conferences, SAPREJ people move and visit marginalized communities in poor countries such as Madagascar and Uganda in Africa. The acting members of the SAPREJ movement at this moment are
- Louk Andrianos (Andriantiatsaholiniaina) from Madagascar – but living in Greece
– Lesya Sabada from Canada,
- Alan Weber from Qatar,
- Linda Turner from Canada,
- Grace Lubaale from Uganda,
- Eberhard Weber from Fiji,
- Diana Woodcock from Qatar,
- Seyed Masoud Noori, USA/Iran.
We work with churches and the World Council of Churches (WCC- EEJ) economic and ecological justice team.
ORGANISER: DR LOUK.A. ANDRIANOS (LUCAS)
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Louk Andrianos (Luc Aurelien Andriantiatsaholiniaina) was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, in 1969. Now, he is married with Georgia Glampedaki and they live in Kolympari Crete, Greece, with their three children (Celina, Ioannis and Andriana).
After his graduation from the University of Antananarivo (1993), Andrianos accomplished his first Master Degree in Hydrology at the University Libre of Brussels in 1995. In 2001, he received his PhD. from the Technical University of Crete at Department of Production Engineering and Management, specialization in Environmental sciences and Sustainable Development. Right after his Ph.D. degree, he went to Canada to work as postdoctoral researcher at the Department of ?Engineering Science and Telecommunications? of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC.
From 2003, he had worked as Agronomist Engineer in Greece and since Mai 2006 he has been hired by the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) as a Scientist post-doc Collaborator to help organizing scientific conferences and to be responsible for the Institute of Theology and Ecology at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Kolympari Chania.
From 2008 to 2014, he had been the head of the Museum of Cretan Flora and the institute of Theology and Ecology at the OAC. He organizes seminars and conferences on local and international level. He is also giving lectures on Cretan economy, sustainable development, environmental ethics and eco-theology. He is the founder and editor of series of environmental books on "Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics and "Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wild Plant Diversity".
After his second master in Plant molecular biology and biotechnology in 2019, he serves as staff of the department of Environment and development at the Municipality of Platanias in Chania.
Lucas Andrianos is active member of various executive committees in different environmental organizations and he is now collaborating with the World Council of Churches as sustainability consultant for the Care for Creation, Sustainability, and Climate justice at the department for Economic and Ecological Justice (EEJ). With the support of international entities, he is also organizing the international conference on "Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Ecological Justice" every two years since 2012 (in Greece, in Madagascar (2014), in Uganda (2016) (http://saprej2012.webs.com), and in Fiji (2018).
