Ferencvárosi TC updates inclusion campaign: Together we are more in Fradi!

Ferencvárosi TC updates inclusion campaign: Together we are more in Fradi!

EFDN Member Ferencvárosi Torna Club has made a film for the 10th time, in which the club raises awareness on the fight against exclusion.

In 2012, Ferencvárosi Torna Club was the first among the Hungarian clubs to initiate a campaign against exclusion, and since then has been raising awareness about the importance of this issue with short films. The club’s campaign has a slogan each year, and this year the message is: Together we are more in Fradi! After the various videos of the previous years, this year the creators relied on unique video graphics.

FERENCVÁROS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

In the life of Ferencvárosi Torna Club social responsibility plays a key role. Supporting and joining valuable and sustainable projects in the spirit of environmental awareness is one of the club’s main aims. The club believes in creating value. The most popular sports club of Hungary is proud to initiate steps that aim to support causes that are important for society, like community building, promoting a healthy lifestyle, fair play, sports free of violence. The club is also keen on helping disadvantaged people and groups and boosting equal opportunities. Since 2015, Ferencváros has reached about 60 thousand students of more than 175 schools thanks to the Fradi School Program, in which children get to know the rich and honorable history of Ferencváros, and participate in interactive and fun games. The Fradi School Program has been acknowledged by the Hungarian Olympic Committee: In 2017 they awarded FTC with the Fair Play Award for its imitative in the category of Promoting Fair Play.

Besides this, Ferencvárosi Torna Club has joined the Community Champions League, a football championship among schools and amateur clubs in Ferencváros which is part of an international EFDN project, The Community Champions League is a social street football competition organised locally in nine cities in eight different European countries, where the participating teams can win more points through Fair-Play, Fair Support and Volunteering in community activities than by winning their street football matches. With the aim of promoting social integration through sport, the Community Champions League provides the opportunity for people from different cultures to come together to build relationships and friendships while breaking down barriers through the prevention of violence, racism and intolerance in grassroots sports and their communities.

Another initiative is the Fradi gym class, in which the club’s athletes and professionals hold intensive, experience-oriented, and entertaining classes for children aged 6-18 regarding football and handball. The aim of the Fradi Fair Play Committee, which is also stated in its charter, is to raise awareness to fair play and the values and traditions of “Faradism”, with special attention to promoting moral rules, respect and non-violent and doping-free sport.

In 2020 Ferencvárosi Torna Club has formed its first walking football team. The most important rule of walking football is that it is forbidden to run, this way this amazing sport becomes playable again for the elderly. Walking football is not only good for encouraging an active lifestyle for the elderly, but through it people who are living more isolated, or have fewer friends or family members can be part of a community and a group again.

If you want to have a look at the club’s past campaigns, click here!