The Mediterranean Sea has been known since the dawn of time as a place where cultures and continents meet. The island’s position in the middle of the Mediterranean means that it has been a passing port and new home for a lot of migrants. This clash of continents can be good, and can be bad. Right in the centre of the sea, on a tiny rock of a nation called Malta, the team at Y.E.U Malta decided to turn the bad into good.

Youth for Exchange and Understanding (Y.E.U) Malta is a Youth Organisation which has been active in Malta since 1995, and is part of a greater international community; YEU International.

A training course was recently held in the Marsaxlokk Youth Activity Centre (owned by Agenzija Zaghzagh), entitled R.A.C.I.S.M. (Radical Action Combating Intolerance & Supporting Migrants). Twenty two participants came from different countries and participants from each country were encouraged to share different experiences from their countries.

The countries involved were; Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Romania, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, Portugal, Malta and Bulgaria. Throughout the training course, the participants were encouraged through informal activities, to analyse issues of human rights, as well as various issues that different types of migrant groups across Europe face as they try to deal with daily life. The objective of this training course was to empower and motivate young people to understand the important of tolerance, inclusion and diversity and to use voluntarism as tool of inclusion.

All this could not have been possible if it was not for the Youth in Action Programme, supported by the Maltese national agency E.U.P.A. which helped a lot with all the technical difficulties that arose during the preparation and implementation of project.

Y.E.U. would lalso ike to thank the visa section of the police department which helped them with the commissioning of visas, Agenzija Zaghzagh for providing them with the venue, as well as Marsa Open Centre, Movement Graffiti and S.O.S. Malta for helping us out on some of the sessions.

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