The frightening war scenarios across the world are currently leaving millions of people stranded close to the war zones or in the middle of Europe. Some are still living in a conflict region in the middle of Europe under desperate conditions, like in Ukraine, others fled to our neighborhoods from war zones to save their lives, e.g. from Syria. And some of them are also members of Football Supporters Europe (FSE).
Most of them are left with nothing more than the set of clothes they were wearing when they left. We believe that giving these people all possible support is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Many football fans all over Europe are already active in supporting refugee projects as matter of social responsibility in many different ways: be it through organizing clothing collections for refugees in war zones or in the countries they had to flee to, be it by providing logistical help to them, or by getting them to watch or to play football and thereby integrating them in their new communities.
Our initiative “SECOND FAN SHIRT” is not intending to reinvent the wheel – we’d much rather bring different fan initiatives involved in clothing collections together across Europe, and encourage more fans to engage in similar actions, to do our bit as football supporters in Europe to make the life of refugees and the football lovers among them at least a little better. It could literally affect any of us one day, too, so we should help one another already today.
For more details please check out the article below:
http://www.fanseurope.org/en/news/news- ... t-eng.html
http://www.fanseurope.org
