CTP's Youth programme focuses on providing educational, informational and leisure time activities to children and young people in the Prespa and Florina region (some projects include as well the Prespa cross-border region-Greece, Albania and fYROM). Informal learning about arts and new technologies, informational and support activities on topics such as volunteerism and civil society, social inclusion, physical, psychological and mental health and job opportunities as well as awareness raising about important issues such as the environement, gender, human rights, cultural diversity and European integration are the main topics of the project. The key participants are NGOs and other Youth institutions, the local communities and young people. The main goals are: motivation, informal learning, awarness rasining, collaboration and networking.

All the projects are long-term (minimum 1-2 years) activities such as:
-A programme of Youth activities including workshops, seminars, informational activities, support groups, exchanges, meetings and cultural activities (concerts, exhibitions). The programme aims to support young people's initiatives and to help them develop as European citizens.
- Running of a Youth Club which functions as an internet-caf?, meeting place of young people, exhibitions, events and workshop place. The Youth club provides as well on a continuous base informational material on topics such as physical, psychological and mental health, volunteerism programmemes and job opportunities.
- Youth exchanges and youth trainings
- The CTP Box: educational activities in all villages of Prespa (workshops, moving library, games and events)
- The research, revival and utilization of our cultural heritage includes: research through a variety of research methods (reviewing previews, research and literature; interviewing and travel); compilation of reports based on the research results; and revival of costumes, traditions, crafts and occupations through workshops, events and other activities.
Community
Prespa is a rurally isolated community of 1800 people living in the mountainous border region of northern Greece by a pair of lakes. Of strategic importance during wars in the region the area remained sensitive after the Greek civil war. Many local people emigrated during this period decimating Prespa's population. The lakes were declared a national park in 1974 and the park is unique in Greece as being the only one with living communities within its boundaries. The advent of an irrigation system in the mid sixties saw a move away from a traditional mixed agrarian economy to a monoculture based in growing white haricot beans. In the last decade tourism has begun to supplement the local economy.

It suffers from typical problems associated with rurally isolated communities: depopulation, inadequate services, a sense of social isolation, impoverishment of biodiversity, and a low level of professional skills. The local infrastructure is poor; few transport links, poor medical and educational facilities and little cultural provision. The community continues to suffer from the exodus of young people to urban centres, particularly young women. The area is home to a still astonishing biodiversity, a rich cultural heritage, an array of archaeological remains and a wide ethnic diversity. It is one of the few remaining areas to which the Sarakatsani, a transhumant shepherding community, return each summer to pasture their flocks in the mountains.

The  volunteers should be interested in making activities with children in rural area :
- Preparation of the weekly activities for children an youth to make them discover a new activity, gain skills: it can be a sport game, a handicraft or musical workshop,
- Preparation of special events (every two months): planning of one day activities, within a special theme (for example Carnaval, Easter, Christmas, the Earth day…), a sport event..
- Visit 3 times a week the nearby villages with books, games whenever it is possible (according to weather conditions mostly.

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