Football United Celebrates Human Rights Day

The Festival was held on this date to celebrate Human Rights Day.
The 2012 Festival was the first of its kind, using football to promote human rights and cross cultural harmony with children and youth from diverse backgrounds.
Football United received generous donations from Amnesty International Australia, Jamberoo Pub and the Johnny Warren Foundation, as well as The Attorney General?s Department, The Department of Immigration and Citizenship, and the Department of Family and Community Services.
Based at UNSW?s School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Football United began in 2006 with the goal of supporting refugee and newly-arrived young people and families in their transition into Australian society.
The vision has evolved to become a program which combines a number of effective mechanisms for engaging and re-engaging young people with refugee experiences and disadvantaged youth into their communities, fostering their educational engagement and promoting cross cultural harmony.
The competition results were as follows:
Winners of the boys division: Skills United (Briar Rd Public School)
Runners up of the boys division: Fairfield Public Boys
Winners of the girls division: Auburn Public Girls
Runners up of the girls division: John Warby Public Girls