Bayern Munich Donates $1.1 Million to Refugees Thursday Sep 03,2015

 

As Europe wrestles with an unprecedented wave of refugees, Germany's two biggest football teams have offered their support to migrants arriving in the country.

German champion Bayern Munich announced Thursday Sep 03,2015 it will donate €1 million ($1.1 million) to relevant charitable projects, while the team's players will walk out for its next match holding hands with young refugees.

Thousands of people, mostly from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have poured into Germany, with hundreds filling a Munich train station earlier this week.

Bayern will also set up a training camp which will offer meals and German language classes to children

"FC Bayern see it as its social responsibility to help those fleeing and suffering children, women and men, to support them and accompany them in Germany," team CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said in a statement