When is comes to advocacy, UNHCR is no small player- they seem to be able to get the most popular celebrities and athletic teams to promote their cause. Joining the ranks of Angelina Jolie, is FC Barcelona, who has signed a partnership agreement aimed at using sports to provide refugee children with life skills.
"The main objective of the new partnership is to raise public awareness of the protection needs of refugees and other uprooted people around the world and to promote the role of education and sport in the development and well being of refugees, particularly children. As a first step, UNHCR and FC Barcelona will jointly identify and design a number of education and life skills projects through sport activities which will benefit refugees in Ecuador, Nepal and Rwanda."
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UNHCR and Barcelona Football Club launch partnership to help refugee children through sport
FC Barcelona and UNHCR
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