On July 25, a group of 44 children aged 8 to 15 left Odessa to participate in a hospitality program at a summer camp of the Municipality of Athens in Agios Andreas, Attica. The children were accompanied by 5 adult chaperones.
The transportation and accommodation of both the children and their chaperones were sponsored by the General Secretariat of Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.