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As Europe's refugee
crisis escalates, Germany’s biggest football club is reaching out to help.
Bayern Munich will host training camps for kids, providing them with food,
German lessons and football equipment. It will also donate US$1.1 million toward refugee
projects.
"We
at FC Bayern consider it our socio-political responsibility to help displaced
and needy children, women and men, supporting and assisting them in
Germany," Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said in a statement on the club's
website.
RT.com report continues:
In
addition to hosting a football camp for refugee children and youths, Bayern
Munich players will enter the arena at their next home game holding the hands
of one German child and one refugee child. That match will take place on
September 12, against FC Augsberg.
The
club has also vowed to donate €1 million (US$1.1 million) from a friendly game
to refugee projects.
Other
German teams have also reached out to help amid the worsening crisis.
Following
the announcement on Thursday, German team Arminia Bielefeld offered 500 tickets
for a match on September 12, Die Welt reported. The tickets were gone within
two hours.
"We
are thrilled with the overwhelming demand. We wish the refugees and their
companions a wonderful football afternoon in the Schueco Arena," said
managing director Gerrit Meinke.
Borussia
Dortmund invited 220 asylum seekers to watch a Europa League match last week,
while Mainz also gave out 200 free tickets for their home match against
Hannover last weekend.
Banners
reading “Welcome refugees” could be seen at football grounds across the country
on Thursday.
Germany has so far accepted
more asylum applications than any other European country. It expects to take in
a total of 800,000 refugees this year – four times the amount in 2014.
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