Sport connects and builds bridges between people of all backgrounds. It’s about more than just movement. People all over the world can communicate and come together through sport. Sport connects people across all borders.
How do you strengthen social interaction? How do you create trust and loyalty? It is extremely important for refugees to settle into their new environment, to find acceptance and to be integrated. After sometimes traumatic escape experiences, sport can help to welcome the children and adults who have fled and to build trust.
Die “Welcome to Judo” tour offers sports enthusiasts and judoka with flight experience the opportunity to train together with top trainers and other judoka – forget the tragic flight experience for a moment and have fun together on the tatami. The tour starts on June 19th at the Alt-Schmargendorf elementary school in Berlin.
Patrick Stix, Aqlina Rasooli and Caroline Fritze will be on site as speakers. For Patrick Stix (Violence Prevention and Integration Advisor), the “Welcome to Judo” tour is a heart project. He is primarily responsible for the implementation of the tour. With Aqlina Rasooli, there is a great trainer on site who has experience of fleeing herself and can therefore understand the fears and problems of the refugees. She trained young girls in her native Afghanistan.
As an additional highlight, national team athlete Caroline Fritze will help organize the training. The young fighter from Berlin has already won several medals at the IJF World Tour and is the reigning German champion in the weight class up to 57 kg.
Do judoka with refugee experience train in your club? Are you a sports enthusiast yourself and have escape experience? DThen register your judoka or yourself now until June 16th:
All further information is contained in the advertisement. More dates will follow.
This campaign is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration. This course is aimed exclusively at judoka/sports enthusiasts with refugee experience (from all countries). Ukrainian judoka are therefore very welcome.
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