Furd.org - A charity in Sheffield, England using soccer to fight racism
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Football Unites, Racism Divides • Home
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About us
Football Unites, Racism Divides believes that football, as the world’s most popular game, can help to bring together people from different backgrounds to play, watch and enjoy the game, and to break down barriers created by ignorance or prejudice.
Our aim is to ensure that everyone who plays or watches football can do so without fear of racial abuse and harassment, in either a verbal or a physical form, and to increase the participation of people from ethnic minorities in football, as either players, spectators or employees.
The project was started in 1995 by a group of Sheffield United fans who were concerned about a number of incidents of racist abuse both in and around the stadium, which is situated in a community where about 44% of the local youth population is black or Asian. Since then, the project has gone from strength to strength.
