{"id":3039,"date":"2016-07-04T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/07\/04\/zaalvoetballers-rs-organiseren-samen-met-schoolkinderen-buurtfeest\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:10","slug":"zaalvoetballers-rs-organiseren-samen-met-schoolkinderen-buurtfeest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/07\/04\/zaalvoetballers-rs-organiseren-samen-met-schoolkinderen-buurtfeest\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor footballers RS and school children organise community event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last Friday, 1 July 2016, members of Rotterdam Students (RS) indoor football club organised a community event in the so-called \u2018problem district\u2019 Rotterdam-IJsselmonde. Together with groups 7 and 8 from Groene Palm primary school, they wanted to do something for the deprived community, where residents have very little interaction with each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey get on so well with the children, you\u2019d think they were training to be teachers,\u201d says Canan Yildirim, teacher of groups 7 and 8 at the Groene Palm. She is obviously delighted with the EUR students from RS indoor football club who joined up with her class. Since the end of April, the indoor footballers and the pupils have been meeting every two weeks to explore how to create more solidarity in the area. To do this, they went into the community and planned a large event on the school playground.<\/p>\n

Traditional Dutch games <\/h3>

Partly due to the weather, the turnout wasn\u2019t great \u2013 initially mainly parents coming to collect their children. However, once the rain had passed, some curious local residents also dropped by to see what was going on. They saw the children (not your usual country bumpkins) enjoying traditional Dutch games like shuffleboard and bite-the-cake, while further on, homemade cakes were being sold to raise money for charity. \u201cThe boys and girls from groups 7 and 8 could choose where they wanted to send the proceeds. They finally decided on refugees \u2013 a very noble cause,\u201d explains Michael Ta, RS indoor footballer and employee at Erasmus Pavilion.<\/p>\n

Insulated life in Kralingen <\/h3>

If it were up to Oemar van der Woerd (third year bachelor student Health Sciences), \u2018his\u2019 indoor football club should do more for deprived city areas in Rotterdam. \u201cAs a club, we\u2019d been wanting to do something for society for a while, because as a student, you tend to live a rather insulated life in a district like Kralingen. The MOVE foundation<\/a>, which works for children in deprived areas in student cities, told us about this project. I thought it was a great idea \u2013 I think we should do something like this every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Promotion for the university<\/h3>

Although the closing community party didn\u2019t raise a huge amount for the refugees (around 150 euros), the whole project was ultimately very successful, says RS president Anna Koster (bachelor Sociology). \u201cWith a little bit of help, the children organised a great party, which taught them a lot. And not unimportantly: they learned more about the university, which means that it might not be so unattainable for them after all.\u201d Two weeks ago, the primary school children visited EUR, where they were given a football clinic in the sports building and became university students for a day. After the visit, the Turkish girl Aya, one of the brightest children in group 7, was immediately enthusiastic: \u201cThe university was very big, full of intelligent people and there was a nice atmosphere. I want to study there to be a brain surgeon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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