CRICLUSION - Sport You Love in The Country You’ll Love: Inclusion of Newly Arrived Migrants Through Cricket

The project aims to promote inclusion and diversity in the sport of cricket in Serbia and Greece by the means of achieving two specific objectives. First specific objective of the action is to promote inclusion of migrants in new countries by engaging them in cricket. Second specific objective is to Promote tolerance and tackle discrimination in Cricket by developing antidiscrimination toolkit and holding antiscrimination trainings to cricket personnel in Greece and Serbia. First objective will be addressed by organizing promotion of cricket in Asylum centres, where we are going to organize promotional info-days, on websites intented to be used by migrants as well as through civil society organizations and public authorities that work with migrants. Same channels will be used to promote our two whole-day inclusion events that we are going to organize in Serbia. These events will be organized in presence of at least 50 migrants who will take part in tranings and matches. Friendly matches will be organized between teams consisted of mixed local and migrant populations. These events will have organized lunch and tea/coffee breaks with emphasizing networking opportunities throughout the day. Cricket as a sport that is played throughout whole day, or sometimes even as a multi-day event is therefore very suitable to support inclusion. Second objective will be addressed by creating antidiscrimination toolkit/curriculum and by holding pilot trainings using this toolkit to cricket personnel in Greece and Serbia. Main goals of this training will be to introduce a zero-tolerance towards discrimination, to influence people not to make assumptions about players based on their race and to support players who speak up. Additionally, due to the fact that migrants in Greece and Serbia are almost exclusively from Muslim communities whilst the host countries are predominantly Christian, special focus will be paid to religious discrimination and to understanding of characteristics.