You don’t get much better people-to-people links than by bringing a group of British and Ukrainian young people together to play football on the beach, explore theatre projects and check out urban regeneration and diversity. Those were some of the results of a recent visit organised by the British Council with the Churches’ Regional Commission in the North East of England as part of their Active Citizens Programme for a group of young people from areas including Lviv, Crimea and Dnipropetrovsk. In return, a group of young people from the UK visited Ukraine in June 2011.
You can read more about the exchanges programme and how it highlighted UK and Ukrainian models and practices of community engagement at the Active Citizens link above.