These photos and videos were taken during the inclusive football lessons within the "Play for Human Rights!" campaign for mixed teams of young men and women in Ukrainian communities, including ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, internally displaced people and others.

This campaign facilitated the standing of more than 150 sport for development coaches in 2017-18 and was recognised as a Ukrainian best practice of youth work of 2017 in the field of human rights education and promoting of equality and non-discrimination among young people according to the national programme "Youth Worker" of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine.

For example, in several photos are young people with mental disabilities. Some of them provided football training for others on one of the five different locations with attractive exercises. Using that approach and mentors' support from our team of football coaches, we facilitated the development of reliable and trustworthy leaders for young people with disabilities and helped them to start their own coaching career.

The campaign promotes that every player, irrespective of football talent, can be an athlete, artist and scientist at the same time. It uses a sport playground as an interactive model of the whole society, and lets children and youth become change agents to gain democratic culture, unity and tolerance directly on the pitch.

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