Tel Aviv – Yorai was born in 2000 in Israel and decides to perform civil service instead of compulsory military service.
\nDuring the civil service he asked and obtained help for African refugees residing in Tel Aviv and became part of the volunteer staff of Elifelet, one of the associations with which Social Goal (our partner in the area) works. During his civil service, Elifelet’s children are the beneficiaries of the Inter Campus project who train weekly with the local children.
\nOver the years we have extended collaborations to other associations dedicated to refugees, Yorai has finished three years of civilian service, but has remained with us, in the Inter Campus Tel Aviv team and weekly trains a mixed group of children, refugees and non-refugees. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe most significant moment of the Inter Campus experience – says Yorai – was the summer camp in July 2020, where for a whole week the children spent many hours together every day between football, climbing, swimming: an integration all-round that gave the children the opportunity to get to know each other better and to create new friends\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the Tel Aviv project, Yorai is joined not only by Besan, an Arab coach, and Arturo, an Italian who moved to Israel, both with us for years, by a new coach, Simon and a welcome return, Salah. <\/p>\n
Simon is the same age as Yorai, 22, and at 7 he arrived in Israel with his parents from Asmara, Eritrea. A long journey on foot that brought him to Tel Aviv where he was lucky enough to be adopted by an Israeli family that allowed him to grow up spending a happy childhood, just a few minutes drive away from his natural parents, who are always at Tel Aviv, and which he obviously sees very often.
\nSimon has a talent for sports, especially football, and trained for years in a local team. Unfortunately, he was unable to participate in local championships as he still does not have citizenship.
\n\u201cI love working for this project, he tells us, not only for the value given to integration but also for the possibility of offering hope to refugee children who, like me, cultivate the dream of participating in a youth football championship, which unfortunately is still not allowed for refugees.\u201d
\nSalah is 34 years old, he left Sudan in 2008 on foot towards Chad, from there by car to Libya where he got another passage to Egypt from which he then arrived on foot in Israel.
\n\u201cI have been an Inter Campus coach since the opening of the Tel Aviv project in 2013 and thanks to the intervention of Social Goal I managed to avoid being confined to the Holot refugee camp, opened in December 2013 and fortunately closed permanently 4 years later\u201d.
\nToday Salah is back with us after a few years’ break, and these days he is celebrating his first Israeli identity card, finally a full citizen and, according to him, thanks also to his involvement with Inter Campus.
\nThree stories of life and commitment that, in parallel with those of the children, demonstrate how it is possible to conceive and achieve an important goal: integrating with different ethnicities and cultures, thanks to the game of football, all Nerazzurri!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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