As part of its solidarity programme and its commitment to spreading the values of the club outside Spain, the Realmadrid Foundation has launched a football academy project at educational centres across Palestine.

The initiative, which enjoys the support of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRAW), aims to promote "the teaching of values, teamwork, gender equality and leadership amongst refugee children" in a country that lives under the effects of blockade and constant military attacks.

A technician from the Realmadrid Foundation has travelled to occupied Palestinian territories to train future football coaches at the UNRWA-run Khan Younis Training Centre (Gaza) and Kalandia Training Centre (the West Bank).

Some 1,100 Palestinian refugee children – both male and female – will take part in the project at 11 schools run by the agency – 5 in Gaza and 6 in the West Bank, with an average of 100 children per school.

The UNRWA currently operates 58 camps in total, where it looks after, protects and defends the rights of 4.9 million refugees in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.