Bayern Munich football club to set up 'training camp' for refugees
German football giants Bayern Munich announced that they will open a 'training camp' in the upcoming weeks, which will provide homeless refugees with German classes, meals, and football equipment.
The Bavarian five-time European champions will also donate €1million (£735,000) towards refugee integration projects from money earned from a friendly match earlier this summer.
Set up through the youth department at the club, the training camp is aimed at the children and adolescents of refugees to give them a "determined rhythm of work".
"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," said chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in a statement on the club's website.
Bayern, who have won the German league title 25 times, will also highlight the current refugee crisis in their next home match against FC Augsburg.
Players will enter holding the hands of one German child and one refugee, to symbolise the nationwide integration that the club hopes to encourage.