Refugee Trauma Initiative was born in 2016 inside a tent in Idomeni, where some 13,000 refugees had become stranded at border of Greece and North Macedonia.

Inside that tent the first RTI programme began and we began providing group sessions for men, women and children who had experienced violence, displacement and torture.

Our vision is to offer non-clinical mental health support, tailored to the needs of displaced people and host communities, to foster community healing and to implant supportive measures that will stay with communities for as long as they are needed. By targeting well-being and belonging among the communities with whom we work, we help newly-arrived refugees settle, heal, and begin integrating in their new host countries.