Many refugee camps, official and unofficial, exist nowadays throughout Greece. Since the spring of 2016, some of them are being hosted in region of Epirus. Youth Center of Epirus provides recreational activities to the children, youngsters and some parents of Doliana refugee camp. 

Therefore, we decided to host an international youth exchange which included 30 youngsters from Greece, Estonia, Bulgaria, France, Lithuania and Spain. Project took place from 1st to 11th of November 2016 in Greece, Stavroskiadi village of Ioannina and Doliana village- the place where a refugee camp is located. Youngsters, together with their team leaders and facilitators, lived together in one house and participated in activities of the project like discussions and presentations about the refugee situation in their countries, preparation and implementation of games, sports and crafting activities at a refugee camp, volunteering to paint a sports/activity hall of the refugee camp, making cultural presentations for the other participants, working on gathering materials for this website and more. Volunteering at the refugee camp was amazing event because it brought together people from refugee and EU communities, it was great that they could work together to improve the refugee camp. You can read about the welcoming, help, sharing and life stories of refugees in the Testimonies chapter of this website. 

The project YOUth for RefuGeneration aims to bring together society of EU and refugees that have got to Europe by using positive images and promoting background stories of refugees to the public. The project not only aims to promote tolerance and inclusion of refugees in EU society, but also to raise awareness regarding the support that refugees need in their host country. YOUth for RefuGeneration focused on preventing radicalization, while promoting diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, sense of EU citizenship, political awareness among the citizens of EU and solidarity towards the refugee “generation” of Europe.