Amnesty and FA launch guide for increasing refugee women’s participation in football

Amnesty International UK, in partnership with the English Football Association, have launched a free guide and online training series which aims to increase refugee women’s participation in grassroots football. The guide will help coaches, clubs and their foundations, county FAs, and others to set up football sessions with and for refugee women and girls in their community. A number of football clubs across the country currently run free weekly football sessions with refugees to support fitness, help people feel part of the local community and reduce social isolation. But these sessions are often targeted at men and…

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