Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Employability - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal development - 
Strengthening partnerships
Access to Sport - Employability - Gender Equality - Healthy lifestyle - Personal development - Strengthening partnershipsContext
The northeastern inner city of Dublin suffers from high levels of deprivation and poverty, with high concentrations of lone parents (up to 80% in some areas), unemployment (approximately 50% of men and 40% of women, against a national average of 4%), low educational attainment (50% of people aged 15 and over have primary education only, against a national average of 9%) and high levels of crime and substance abuse. It is also the area in Ireland with the highest percentage of ethnic minorities.
Project goals
- Increase mutual understanding between children and young people with different backgrounds and improve the integration of migrants and third-country nationals
- Create safe spaces for children and young people to play football
- Promote migrants’ involvement in sport and volunteering
- Foster youth empowerment through football
- Create more cohesion between young people, community groups, police and local authorities
- Educate participants in diversity and inclusion, and against racism and xenophobia
Project content
Three months of football training nights and diversity and inclusion education leading up to a series of seven-a-side football tournaments in various age categories across the northeastern inner city of Dublin in June and July.
Partner
