Sports Without Borders Foundation

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Sports Without Borders

Sports Without Borders is a not for profit organisation which is dedicated to providing support for young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds who are involved or want to get involved in sport.

Sport has played a vital role in multicultural Australia, empowering many newly-arrived Australians to develop an identity and sense of active belonging. Sports Without Borders will foster this process by providing funding and services to young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

The Sports Without Borders Foundation aims to foster accessible, multilingual resources and services, (more) funding pathways, direct financial support, training/mentorship programs and sponsorship contacts to refugee and migrant communities by:

• Developing an understanding of particular barriers to participation in sport experienced by refugee youth in Australian society;
• Developing and implementing innovative platforms and initiatives to help overcome those barriers by highlighting the messages and opportunities arising through sport;
• Developing linkages, associations and agreements with public, private and community organisations and funding bodies to increase support for these objectives;
• Raising community awareness of issues relevant to the activities of the Foundation;
• Pursuing associated educational and research activities and opportunities;
• Providing support for and opportunities to students and academics studying and working in fields conducive to the attainment of these objectives.
• Creating, publishing and disseminating information in connection with these objectives;
• Soliciting grants, donations, gifts and bequests to the Foundation for the purpose of achieving the objectives.

Location:

Melbourne, Australia

Policy/practice area:

Cultural integration

Keywords:

Anti-discrimination, Community building, Education, Empowerment, Ethnicity, Refugees and asylum seekers, Youth,

Integration Practitioner:

Local Government

Name of Organization:

Sports Without Borders

Website:

http://sportswithoutborders.org/

Contact Information:

1/185 Faraday Street, Carlton South, Melbourne,
VIC, 3053 Australia
Phone: 9349 2729
Email: dolores.singh@sportswithoutborder.org

Other stakeholders involved in this practice:

Victorian Multicultural Commission
Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development
Australian Multicultural Foundation
Scanlon Foundation
Pratt Foundation

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