Bayern Munich Football Club Donates $1. 11m To Refugee
![Bayern's youth academy will set up the training camp for kids, in conjunction with the city of Munich [Getty]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vGB9H3yfsspzxNNQVlGLnz8eMLlZUm1QjcVicjMvFkPhnRICfLjOEtTlHJu_1hdiHp6C2Ilxh23IMA-Zkx5T54HzPXPv7S6o_wyxtSUqMDXCxSC9oKmT4vtVMBLNmuIu6WSqy9onhVGWYqqFMAnnuEaSIBeBzDBKO1alKuGMZxY1_cTX7FgVjqlIsNWv41tv4coavXE0grP9U=s0-d)
Bayern Munich football club announced that they will donate $1. 11m and set up training to help the thousands of refugees entering Germany.
Opinions in Europe have been polarised following the predicament of those fleeing conflict in countries like Syria, as well as those from elsewhere escaping poverty.
The club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said in a statement on their website that "Bayern sees it as our social responsibility to help the refugees, needy children, women and men, to help them, and to accompany them in Germany."
FC Bayern plans to set up a training camp for refugee children that will provide football sessions plus German language classes and meals.It will also donate €1m to the cause by setting up a charity friendly match
They also said that “in their next home game, against FC Augsburg, each player will walk onto the pitch holding the hand of a German child and a young refugee which it says will "set an example for the integration of refugees".
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