The Real Madrid Foundation carries out more than 200 projects in developing countries and conflict zones
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace was celebrated on 6 April.
The Real Madrid Foundation organises social sports schools and sporting projects to help children who are at risk of social exclusion by means of sport. The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace was celebrated on 6 April with the aim of recognising the positive role of sport in communities and in the lives of people around the world, especially children. The Foundation pursues this goal in developing countries and conflict zones through its more than 200 social and sporting projects around the world.
The European situation is affected by the war in Ukraine, where the European Union will finance two new social sports schools run by the Real Madrid Foundation, two years after the war. They will be with Salesian Missions and will join the 7 schools already in place in collaboration with the NGO Epicentr for Children. Within this same framework, work is being done to integrate refugees of Ukrainian nationality, particularly in bordering countries such as Poland with the new school in the town of Elk with UK Salos. Psychosocial work is actively promoted in the social sports schools in order to help improve the conditions for children's resilience in the face of the situation in the country and the emotional impact it has on the children.
In other parts of the world
Sport in the Middle East is an opportunity for children to be included and protected so that they can grow up enjoying their full rights. In social sports schools in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, where refugees, Syrians, Palestinians and Iraqis are cared for, sport is established as an effective tool to strengthen social cohesion by promoting closer connections with the host communities, fostering a culture of peace and the prevention of radicalism.
Political crises, high levels of violence and migratory flows in Latin America represent a complex reality in the region, affecting the countries where the Real Madrid Foundation is active, seriously affecting vulnerable groups and, in particular, children from displaced populations. Through the social sports schools, the Foundation creates safe spaces where, in turn, children who are victims of violence and disadvantaged backgrounds are cared for, with the aim of preventing children from being recruited by gangs.