One World Basketball
One World Basketball is a social initiative to support people with flight experience. The initiative offers a special basketball program and brings people with and without refugee experience together. The initiative was launched in April 2013 in Berlin and is organizationally part of the ISS Berlin and the FBL Berlin. One World Basketball is also a startsocial scholarship holder and is the first initiative in Germany to promote the integration of refugees in connection with basketball .
aims
The aim of the initiative is to create a place of meeting and exchange for people with and without a refugee experience. Adult women and men meet and interact through sport, regardless of language, origin or religion. In this way friendships and networks are formed for mutual support in finding accommodation and work as well as in improving language skills.
In addition to the weekly basketball training, various common leisure activities and cultural activities take place. In addition, One World Basketball plays with a mixed team in the Freizeit Basketball Liga (FBL Berlin) in order to bring more people into contact with the topic of flight and migration.