EDUCATION
School children from two Cambuslang schools took part in a Europe-wide campaign to promote inclusion through sport last week.
Primary five pupils from Cairns and St Cadoc’s primaries were at Hampden Park as part of the Football People campaign, which ran across the continent from October 5 to 19.
Football People aims to promote diversity and inclusion as well as challenge prejudice in the game and this year saw more than 100,000 people take part in activities across 43 countries.
The programme was created to help groups across Europe tackle discrimination and promote social inclusion through football.
Fourteen grants have been awarded by the FARE Network to initiatives in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Scotland and Ukraine.
The kids teamed by with anti-sectarian charity Nil by Mouth, who were selected to represent Scotland and ran a tour of schools, communities and football clubs during the fortnight.
As part of the campaign pupils from the two schools visited the Scottish Football Museum to find out more about the history and evolution of the game. They even got the chance to step out onto the famous Hampden turf and sit in the national team’s dressing room as part of a special behind the scenes tour.
The trip is the latest recognition of the quality of equalities work being carried out by the schools after they were named Nil by Mouth’s ‘champions for change’ award winners in 2015.
Nil by Mouth campaign director Dave Scott Said: “We are very excited to have been chosen to be part of this European initiative to promote equality through sport, especially given the long term problems Scottish football has had with sectarianism.
“The pupils and staff at Cairns and St