International Migrants Day 2020
International Migrants Day (18 December) aims to raise awareness about the challenges and difficulties of international migration. Throughout human history, migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity and to live a better life. Today, globalization, together with advances in communications and transportation, has greatly increased the number of people, who have the desire and the capacity to move to other places.
This new era has created challenges and opportunities for societies throughout the world. It also has served to underscore the clear linkage between migration and development, as well as the opportunities it provides for co-development, that is, the concerted improvement of economic and social conditions at both origin and destination.
Migration draws increasing attention in the world nowadays. Mixed with elements of unforeseeability, emergency, and complexity, the challenges and difficulties of international migration require enhanced cooperation and collective action among countries and regions.
Welcome Through Football
EFDN is implementing projects that foster the social inclusion and employability of young newly arrived immigrants and refugees. The Welcome through Football programme funded by UEFA Foundation for Children started on the 1st of January and will run through until June 2022, which includes 5 delivery phases. Members participating in the programme are Shakhtar Social, Sheffield United Foundation, Fundacao Benfica, Naoberschap United (FC Emmen), Werder Bewegt, Everton in the Community and Apollon Limassol.
Welcome through Football is using a 3 step process:
- Socialisation to sports – providing different football offerings for young refugees of both genders related to their specific requirements such as language skills or the possibility of trauma.
- Socialisation in sports – working on team structure, giving more responsibility to the participants and offering additional steps out with the sports training sessions.
- Socialisation through sports – Focusing on the skills the participants learn from taking part in the available offers so that they qualify for further education in and outside of sports.
Download our Welcome through Football Practitioner’s Guide here.
