Ado den Haag neighbourhood team follows Fair Play Workshop with Anne Frank Foundation

Ado den Haag neighbourhood team follows Fair Play Workshop with Anne Frank Foundation

On Wednesday 12 January the participants of the project “Living like an ADO-Prof!” followed an interesting Fair Play workshop on the Cruyff Court ADO Den Haag in Escamp, given by the Anne Frank House. In the building of BBS Kleurrijk, the children from Escamp talked about situations in which discriminatory things were said and discussed racism with each other.

The Anne Frank House is committed, among other things, to tackling the problem of racism and discrimination on the football pitch by developing training courses. The Anne Frank House makes themes such as prejudice and racism discussable. The Anne Frank House’s motto is: Because football connects! As a professional football player, you may also have to deal with discrimination and racism, and it is important to set an example for others.

Last Wednesday the children sat together in the classroom where the workshop started with an explanation of who Anne Frank was and what the content of the workshop would look like. The children were immediately enthusiastic when they were allowed to use a tablet to play a game. During this game, a storyline was completed with different situations. In these situations, the actors had different roles, namely spectator, helper or perpetrator. It was up to the children to indicate which person they would choose in the different situations. After the game there was an overview of which person you had been in the situations. After the game the different situations were discussed and the children talked to each other about why they had chosen a certain person.

The second part of the workshop consisted of working with cards that had different statements on them. These cards contained racist or discriminatory texts. Then it was up to the children to put the cards in order of what they thought was the least bad to the most bad. This was done in two groups with each group receiving five cards. The participants then talked to each other again to justify their choices. The participants thought very carefully about their choices. Also, interesting conversations took place about why something really could not be said, how to react to statements and how to solve it.

The lesson ended by talking about own experiences and how the children had reacted in those situations. The children were concentrated during the whole workshop. One could tell from the participants that they were very enthusiastic and found it a fascinating subject.

With the Fair Play Game, ADO Den Haag in de Maatschappij in co-operation with the Anne Frank House wants to make racism and discrimination a subject of discussion among the neighbourhood teams of the project ‘Leven als een ADO-Prof!