Our goal at YMCA Thessaloniki children’s camps is to inspire people to become better versions of themselves.

Our daily goal is to stimulate and to create experiences through which campers will improve their skills and develop their personalities.

Camp offers experiences. Unique, fun, unforgettable experiences.  Kids for many years remember accomplishing things they never imagined they could accomplish. And the feelings they feel are beyond description.

Also at camp we make friends, real friends, that last a lifetime. There we bond with other campers because we face the same problems, we rely on each other, we help those in need, we gain shared experiences, we grow together.

The camp gives the campers the opportunity to live as a group, to get in touch with nature, in a natural environment of unique beauty, while experiencing normal socialization.

Children acquire principles and values, become more responsible, become independent from the overprotection of parents, learn to stand on their own two feet. Of course, we are always by their side, not to replace the parents, but to empower them without offering ready-made solutions, but to help them solve their problems on their own.

Camp is a different, parallel world that you wouldn’t believe exists. It’s hard to describe it to someone who hasn’t experienced it.

An old camper once told me:

Camp is…

marches on different mountains and dives in different seas,

but our souls are bound by one sun and one moon.

It is to meet after years and to understand each other with a single glance.

Panos Gouliamtzis