Schippers did in the asylum seekers’ center in the Brabant Budel Cranendonck part in a sports day for children and young people, along with judoka Sanne Verhagen, hockey international Mink van der Weerden and archer Mitch Dielemans. Budel stay an average of three hundred children aged between four and seventeen years.

She said the refugee debate ,, sometimes fierce. ‘ ,, That does not mean that the children are here, ” says Schippers. ,, Especially sports and exercise can ensure that they forget about problems, their worries about how to proceed should not have any. “

Furthermore Schippers pointed to the need for young girls to get exercise. The azc’s do adolescent girls relatively little with the ages of thirteen to eighteen years and it is the minister also important to get them moving.

the Central Agency for the reception of Asylum Seekers (COA), NOC * NSF Knowledge and Sport have drawn up a joint action plan for sports activities for refugees throughout the country to organize