CHAMPIONS ohne GRENZEN (CHAMPIONS without Borders)
This project's parent organization is CHAMPIONS ohne GRENZEN (CHAMPIONS without Borders)
It operates in Germany
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about CHAMPIONS ohne GRENZEN (CHAMPIONS without Borders)
CHAMPIONS ohne GRENZEN is a non-profit association founded in April 2014 (but active since 2012 under the umbrella of the association „...weil Fußball verbindet! e.V.“) dedicated to providing life aid through sports for refugees in the German federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg. It is the result of a union of young avid sports enthusiasts who all have academic backgrounds in social education, cultural and social studies and are destined to take action against the social segregation of refugees by means of football projects. Asylum seekers live a most marginalized life in German society and have hardly if no chance to desegregate. Places for encounter and exchange need to be created by both engaged locals of all kinds of backgrounds and refugees themselves in order to make this change and encounter on eye-level. Our endeavor derives from the shared desire to contribute to the creation of a strong and lasting Culture of Welcome for refugees and culture of diversity in Germany.
Football is at the centre of all of our activities. It is also understood as a tool with positive mental, physical and social effects to activate people’s energies in good ways, to bring them together.