New Polish implementing partner announced
 Starting in January 2012, the TUS Foundation has been appointed as the exclusive local partner of the Centre for Access to Football in Europe, CAFE to implement the official UEFA EURO 2012 “Respect Inclusion – Football with No Limits” project in Poland.
CAFE is a European wide charity established to promote equal access for disabled football fans, to ensure wider inclusion across the game and thereby to enable more disabled people to enjoy live football matches in the future. Within the scope of the project, TUS will be assessing access from the point of view of disabled spectators and gathering information on public premises that are important in each of the 4 UEFA EURO 2012 host cities. The collected data will be available to everybody at niepelnosprawnik.eu and via the CAFE website www.cafefootball.eu.
There are almost 50 million disabled people in Europe, which outnumbers Polish society by about 12 milion people, and of these, more than 50% have never been part of any live sports or public events. The idea of the project “Respect Inclusion – Football with No Limits” is to enable disabled people to more fully participate and enjoy EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. This Championship is an occasion to draw special attention to the idea of respecting the rights of disabled people. One has to remember that equal access to public places is one of the basic human rights; alongside this, any lack of information creates significant obstacles and makes it difficult for the disabled people to lead a fulfilled life on an everyday basis.
Respect Inclusion - Football With No Limits
UEFA is working with CAFE (Centre for Access to Football in Europe) to manage three separate RESPECT Inclusion initiatives. Under the “Football with No Limits” initiative, access information will be provided to disabled fans and visitors by the means of a tailor-made guide. Through the “Showcase games” project run by Special Olympics in Poland and the National Sports Committee for Disabled People in Ukraine, disabled people will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their sports skills by competing in football matches before each quarter-final game. Funds for future inclusion initiatives will be raised through the UEFA EURO 2012 Tournament charity project, encouraging football supporters and other benefactors to donate money for upcoming projects, with UEFA paving the way by committing to donate €3,000 for each goal scored during the tournament.
The TUS Foundation
The TUS Foundation was established in 1993 and is based in Warsaw, Poland. It is a public benefit organization with a mission to provide disabled people with tools for a more independent life.
For more information please contact: Małgorzata Peretiatkowicz, Fundacja TUS, tel. 22 852 07 34 or e-mail: malgorzata.peretiatkowicz@tus.org.pl.
You can find out more about TUS by visiting their website at www.polandnolimits.eu.
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