Starting to operate in 1991, RAA involved youth in all its activities and focussed mainly on the needs of vulnerable communities. The strategic objectives as reflected in the strategic planning document and also in the accreditation application document emphasised the focus of RAA to work in an integrative manner in vulnerable or rural communities with fewer opportunities for their members, including youth. RAA strategic plan for the next 5 years has dedicated objectives related to youth increased capacity and involvement in community work. It remains our strategic aim to create social change by working in partnership with all the local stakeholders and with a multidisciplinary approach by offering: educational, social, psychosocial, medical, economic and wellbeing services and activities. RAA medium-term objective consists in developing new ways of involving the community solving their problems and by that we want to work more intensely with volunteers and youth, to train and to capacitate them to develop and to offer more opportunities at local level. We have set as the most important areas to be addressed within the project issues such as youth unemployment, youth engagement and participation, nonformal education, training and exchanges and priorities among these, for the first years several directions - working with youth in a digital era, - wellbeing and health and - social & school inclusion. Our society cannot afford for talent to be wasted, for social exclusion or lack of involvement among young people because it is up to us all how and to what extent they contribute to the change for the better in society. In order for young people to develop for tomorrow's society, it is important that our actions and activities respond to their needs. The main needs of young people for years to come are related to offering a degree of autonomy to become their own architects, to have a wide range of resources for their personal and professional development, to develop a greater resilience. As we understood that we need young people adapting to increasingly diverse social contexts and complex senses, to encourage and empower young people to get involved at any level, to turn them into agents of change by involving them in policies that target them, especially education, health and social inclusion we have proposed several objectives for RAA 5 years strategy: O1 To increase youth work competencies for 30 % of RAA staff, 20 collaborators and 20 youth workers coming from communities we work for by 2025 O2 To provide learning and development opportunities for minimum 50 young people by organizing minimum 2 youth exchanges/year by 2025 O3. To rise youth involvement and participation in RAA activities by 2025 with minimum 50 new volun-teers that have been previously involved in O1 and Q2. We professed our intention to work in communities to reach out to those who are marginalised young people, to promote diversity, intercultural and inter-religious understanding, common values of free-dom, tolerance and respect of human rights, to build on media literacy, critical thinking and sense of initiative of young people. 2022 has added new challenges in the big framework of youth needs besides the challenges identified in 2020: the war in Ukraine has displaces a large number of young people confronted with school disruption, separation from families and friends, language barrier, etc. These challenges stress the host countries institutions, service providers, communities, population to be able to provide support and as the conflict lasted more and more, access to resources and integration needs to be ensured for larger groups of people and for complex needs. Young people who face difficulties are usually less active, and their degree of trust in others is lower. In the same time, we realised that youth workers are lacking knowledge and experience in working with young people affected by trauma, war and facing distress and anxiety. We therefore needed to increase the focus on wellbeing and social inclusion in our project and to invest in capacitating young people to use empathy, increase resilience and embrace diversity. For the first year of the project, from the stated objectives we have focussed on 2: O1 To increase youth work competencies for 10 youth workers coming from communities we work through participation in one or several study visits O2 To provide learning and development opportunities for minimum 25 young people by organizing a youth exchange focusing on working with diversity and change.