Liberi Nantes born in 2007 as the first Sport Association in Italy, recognised by the UNHCR, who promotes and guarantees the free access to sport for all refugees and asylum seekers. We intend to offer to women and men escaping from war or dramatic humanitarian situation a possibility of freedom, for recovering their dignity, for rebuilding themselves and create new relationship of friendship and faith. It is possible to find a friend in his own football or rugby teammates, or the fellows with whom share a path walking in the mountain.
Sport is life, strength and bravery, it helps to reduce the distances, it creates cohesion and solidarity.
Through playing sport (and not only) the association offer a free space to all the people who live in the refugee camps in the Rome’s territory, a football pitch where play freely, training and establishing relationship. In order to facilitate their activity Liberi Nantes offer the possibility to use dresses, boots and all the things necessary for practicing sport. Moreover they can find volunteers at disposal for helping them in all the practical or personal problem they can find, give them back the hope for a better future, that hope lost in the sea.
The Pitch “XXV Aprile”
This is the Liberi Nantes’ headquarter and house, a sport infrastructure in the heart of the district Pietralata in Rome, a famous place for all the inhabitant since the 1968.
The recover of this symbol of the cultural identity and the social aggregation of this popular district told by Pasolini, Moravia and Morante, is still ongoing and every day the work in progress try to make the pitch available for all. The work made till now has been made by the volunteers of Liberi Nantes.