By Jana Lee, Larnaca, Cyprus.
June 20th was World Refugee Day and I organized an event at my partnerorganization, All4Aid. I had multiple planning sessions with 15 volunteers in the two months leading up to the event. We planned for a bouncy house for the children, multiple craft stations for people to do, cookie decorating, a face painting and 
henna table (which was crowded the entire time), and a cultural exchange station.
The cultural exchange table as we called it was a place where people from different countries sat across from each other and asked questions about the other’s home country and culture. It was a great thing to se all the people connect with each other. We also had around 20 asylum seekers and refugees themselves cook and bring a home cooked meal from their country of origin. We had dishes from Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Cameroon, Congo, U.S. and Cyprus. Over 100 people attended!