Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Children with disabilities - 
Personal development
Access to Sport - Children with disabilities - Personal developmentContext
Sport is crucial to children’s physical and mental well-being, and team sports also help develop social skills through collaboration. Unfortunately, it is often a challenge for disabled children to join their local football club and participate in team sports generally.
Project goals
- Promote social interaction and friendship through football clubs.
- Improve disabled children's health and confidence.
- Foster positive, inclusive perceptions of disabled children, both inside and outside the football community.
- Increase disabled children’s participation in football during and as a result of the project.
- Involve a minimum of 18 professional clubs within three years.
Project content
- Bijzondere Eredivisie (Special Eredivisie) competition: every club hosts a one-day competition involving four visiting teams travelling with their official club bus.
- Press conference: a press conference is held with journalists that make the children feel like professional
- Clinics and training sessions: clinics and training sessions are organised with professional footballers from the participating
- Friendly matches: friendly matches are organised against other clubs in the Bijzondere
- Grassroots activities: activities are organised for disabled footballers through the grassroots sections of the professional
Partner
