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Sport

Sports provide a good opportunity for people to get to know each other. Because not much language is needed, sports possess an especially high potential for helping with integration. Mutual fairness creates common respect. Often, contacts and networks arise through a sport that go beyond it. In this way, people can also improve their German knowledge.

Unfortunately, immigrant girls and women take up athletic offerings less often. This is especially true of Muslim women and girls. The Dresden police department, in cooperation with the Road Safety Association, regularly offer a bicycle course for immigrant women. The course includes theory and practice and ends with a bicycle license. There is also a joint project with the Dresden swimming pools to offer swimming classes for Muslim women.

The German Olympic Sports Association’s program, “Integration through Sports,” is attempting to make sports clubs more accessible to immigrants. In Dresden, there are now five sports clubs taking part.

Different associations of immigrants likewise offer athletic activities or help with the search for a sports club.

By 2020, the Dresden City Administration should take the following steps:

  • Further expand the integration potential of sports through even better general conditions

  • Better inform immigrants about the diverse sports offerings

  • Special support for athletic activities by immigrant girls and women