24/08/2026
Camp Europe - So You Are Not Alone
💙💛 Today marks Ukrainian Flag Day, and a bittersweet farewell to our incredible Camp Donard family as they begin their long journey home. 🇺🇦
It is difficult to put into words just how powerful this experience has been — for the young people involved, and for the YMCA family it brought together.
Through camp, we have shared fears, laughter, challenges, learning, friendship and memories that will stay with us for a very long time. Despite different languages and different life experiences, over the past week we became one Camp Donard family.
We hope that one day we can reunite our campers in a strong, safe and peaceful Ukraine. Until then, we will continue to do whatever we can to stand alongside and support our Ukrainian family from afar. 💙💛
Camp Donard, made possible through Camp Europe’s Roots for Peace programme, has been a genuinely life-changing experience for so many of us involved. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who helped make it possible — and especially to the young people who trusted us, challenged themselves, opened their hearts and made this week what it was.
This isn’t goodbye. До зустрічі — until we meet again. 🇺🇦💙💛