Bohemian FC's new away kit to provide support for children in Palestine

Bohemian FC has teamed up with Palestine Sport for Life to raise awareness of human rights violations in Palestine. The Dublin club's new away kit will also raise much-needed funds to support access to sports for children in the camp of Tulkarem in the West Bank.

Ten per cent of the profits from the jersey will provide sports equipment to the Palestine Sport for Life project in Tulkarem. The project hopes to empower young people to realise their right to play, through football, and helps them to develop their life skills.

Palestine Sport for Life also provides educational opportunities and promotes education in keeping with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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As well as providing finances to Palestine Sport for Life, Bohemian FC will use its social media platforms to highlight the brilliant work of the charity in Tulkarem with monthly updates and reports from the camp.

The lives of Palestinian children are difficult and they face daily human rights violations. The club want to communicate this to their fanbase and beyond and help to improve their lives through sport.

Palestine Sport for Life supports children from Tulkarem Camp as well as Tulkarem refugee camp and Nur Shams refugee camp. Built on an area of just 0.18 square kilometres, the Tulkarem camp has an estimated population of 21,500, and there are over 1,600 children attending school.

The Nur Shams camp, located about three kilometres east of Tulkarem Camp has no open spaces, and children have no area to play except for the school playgrounds. Crowded living conditions strain relations within the home and directly impact the residents’ well-being and health.

The jersey, which carries the Palestinian colours and a dove icon below the collar, builds on similar jersey initiatives undertaken by Bohemians in recent years. In 2020 the club’s away jersey focused on the integration of refugees in collaboration Amnesty International and in 2021 was dedicated to fighting homelessness in Dublin, in collaboration Focus Ireland and Fontaines DC.

Most recently, Bohemians partnered with the Marley Family to release a jersey commemorating Bob Marley’s last-ever outdoor gig, in Dalymount Park, raising funds to bring music and sports equipment to refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland.

As well, a new mural was unveiled earlier this year following the death of football legend Pelé, in memory of the Brazilian stars 1972 visit to Dalymount Park.

Brand new mural at Dalymount to celebrate the greatest of all time 🇧🇷

His only ever game on Irish soil took place in Dalymount in 1972 where his Santos side beat a Bohs/Drums selection 3-2.

It can be viewed via Dalymout Lane.

Design: Niall OL
Paint: Kone pic.twitter.com/zbzWiEzNad

— Bohemian Football Club (@bfcdublin) January 6, 2023

The jersey is now available from Bohs' online store here.