Do you know what it feels like to be a refuge? To have to flee from your home and family? Or to hide in a boat and wait in uncertainty to try and get asylum in another country?

Luckily most of us do not know how this feel, but the project "Youth on the run" offers participants the opportunity to be a refuge for 24 hours in a live role-play.

The participants have to simulate an escape with their family from Somalia to Denmark. During the simulation they will be stopped at the border, questioned, brought to a refugee camp, be attacked and finally they will arrive in Denmark where some of them will get asylum.

This project is designed to educate school pupils about refugees and to help them to understand and respect the people who have to take the decision of leaving everything behind because of persecution or war.

"I have realised how refugees must feel. They feel awful 24 hours a day, I never thought about this before," said one "Youth on the run" participant.

The project has spread to other countries across Europe.