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Enora was a European Solidarity Corps volunteer and worked with young asylum seekers for about 6 months. She worked with them daily and provided them with non-formal and recreational activities. In addition, she created a guide of the Mental Map activity, which can be carried out with young people during their integration stage in a new city. In her project she explores the concept of the activity, provides an example of the activity she carried out with the minors she worked with, and analysis of the activity results. In the paragraph below, she talks about her project:

"From November to December 2025, I organized a “Mental Map” workshop with the teenagers from the facility center Agios Athanios. The objective of this workshop was to reflect on their relationship with the city, share places they liked or disliked, and reveal the differences and similarities in their experiences. It also reflects the different types of city use influenced by age, gender, social background but also personal interests."

In the PDF below, you can find her project, which can be adapted and re-used in work with young people in new communities. 

Jacopo was a European Solidarity Corps volunteer and worked with young asylum seekers in Ioannina for 6 months. He helped them improve their soft skills through non-formal educational and recreational activities, meanwhile he also wrote an article about the right to education and its accessibility to young asylum seekers. Below, he talks about his project:

"This article explores the right to education for people on the move, emphasizing its role in promoting dignity, inclusion, and empowerment. Drawing from my experience as a volunteer with the European Solidarity Corps at the Youth Center Epirus, the article reflects both on structural barriers and the transformative potential of education. Through a human rights-based lens, it advocates for inclusive and accessible education systems that leaves no one behind."

In the PDF below, you can find the article.

Khaya was a European Solidarity Corps volunteer and worked with young asylum seekers, for about 6 months. Among her other activities, she made a movie where the young asylum seekers and other residents of Ioannina that come from different cultures or ethnicities talk about their experiences coming from different backgrounds but meeting each other here, in Greece. In the following text, she talks about her project:

"For this project, I wanted to make an intimate and artistic work. So, I decided to interview people whose stories and experiences had an impact on me. Drawing on their testimonies, I staged my co-volunteers in a place steeped in history and nature: Ioannina Castle. The aim was to create an original and sensitive experience, that could be heard and seen. Through the making of this short film, I learned a lot about individual stories and community life in Ioannina, but also about myself and my ability to develop this project. It required patience, perseverance and flexibility. With this project, I tried to present the stories and life paths of people living in Ioannina. The people with whom I connected, by my identity, my origins and my daily life here."

Below you can find the full description of her project, as well as the movie she made.

During her almost 4-month stay at our organisation, Clara was a European Solidarity Corps volunteer working with young asylum seekers daily by providing them with recreational and non-formal activities, as well as developing a long-term digital activity with and for them. As a result, she not only carried out the digital story-telling activities with teenagers, but also produced a description of the activity which can be adapted and used by anyone working with teenagers. Here, she shares about her work on this activity:

"This project was meant to come closer to the reality of teenagers living in Agios Athanasios Facility through their own eyes, portraying how they see themselves, what they like to do, what music they enjoy and especially what are their biggest dreams and hopes for the future, despite the difficulties they might be facing in the present. To achieve that, the teenagers were asked to log on a website where they could follow and complete different tasks in a fun and appealing way."

Below, you can download the full description and the carried out example of the activity. 

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