Welcome through football tournament at AEK Athens
Last week, AEK Athens organised a football tournament in which several refugee teams participated. These kinds of initiatives are what make football great. It shows once again the power of football and how social impact can be achieved.
Together with the children of “Welcome through Football” we participated in the tournament organized by ‘Shedia Home’ together with the National Homeless Team in Syntagma Square. And it was an amazing experience.
Christina Koromila – Social Media/ Press Office at AEK Athens
Apart from refugee and asylum-seeking related projects, the Greek leading football club uses the power of sport to motivate, educate and inspire. The club believes that the power of football can be harnessed to support communities and individuals both at home and abroad.
AEK Athens works on a broad range of initiatives focusing on employment, education, social deprivation, crime reduction, youth offending and much more.
WELCOME THROUGH FOOTBALL
Welcome Through Football is an EFDN initiative. Current projects across Europe receive funding from the Eramus+ programme of the European Union and the UEFA Foundation for Children.
The Welcome Through Football 2021 project aims to assist in the integration and inclusion of recently arrived young refugees, asylum seekers and young people with a migrant background. EFDN and partners will develop and test a European methodology that uses football as a tool to reach refugees and migrants from different ages (7-25 years old) to get them physically and social active in European communities.
Moreover, the project assists football coaches and youth workers in the development and sharing of effective methods in reaching out to the marginalised target group, in preventing racism and intolerance.
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