Call for Participants - Youth Exchange: Together

Name: "TOGETHER"
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 - Youth Exchange)
Dates: 18th - 28th August 2015 (11 days)
Participants needed: 5 participants + 1 leader 
Age: 18+
Location: Tsaf Tsouf summer camp, Greece
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of 170 €. Food and accommodation 100% free. 10 EUR Participation fee + Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. 
Host: Kids in Action
Countries: Greece, United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Latvia, Slovakia

Project Description: The Youth Exchange "TOGETHER" aims at coexistence and interaction of people with or without disabilities, by actively participating in an organized educational, recreational and cultural program. The aim of the project is young people with or without disabilities to meet, exchange ideas, explore diversity. Also to increase the empathy of the situation experienced by young people with disabilities and to share experiences and best practices on structures dealing with disability in EU countries. The program brings together more than 100 young people from 10 different countries in Europe open call participants and participants from " Beyond Borders"-a project implemented by Summer Camp Tsaf Tsouf, which accommodates people with disabilities and takes place every year in the summer camp Tsaf Tsouf. -that will be, in parallel with "TOGETHER". The participants of "TOGETHER" will have the unique opportunity to coexist and participate in joint activities with people with disabilities, gaining experience and developing skills not only related to empathy, awareness of disability issues, but also social, communicative and artistic skills. Kindly send an email to rodianne@muya.info for participation forms that need to be submitted by Tuesday 21st July.