Olympic Refuge Foundations launches initiatives to help refugees amid coronavirus crisis- InfoMigrants
Sports can help refugees and displaced people cope with the coronavirus pandemic, the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) and UN refugee agency UNHCR have said in a joint statement. They announced the launch of several new sports initiatives, aimed at helping young people.
Thomas Bach, the chair of the ORF and the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said they are worried about the growing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of refugees and others uprooted by war, violence and persecution in the statement published on Tuesday.
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