MADRID, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona announced on Monday that a group of the club's former players are going to help organize a day of solidarity with refugees in Greece.
The event, which is jointly organized by the United Nations' refugee charity, ACNUR and Greek football club, Pas Giannina, will be held on November 18th in the town of Ioannina, which is in the northwest of Greece.
The aim of the event is to collect funds and recognize the efforts of the Greek population, in helping the tens of thousands of refugees who have fled the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and who are now housed in refugee camps in their country.
Members of the Barca Players Association (BPA) including former footballers such as Gica Popescu, Jari Litmanen, Juan Carlos Rodriguez and Meho Kodro, will visit the Katsikas refugee camp in Ioannina and the players will hold football clinics for children in 6 camps in the region before ending the day with a charity football game against the veterans of PAS Giannnia.
The FC Barcelona website (www.fcbarcelona) says the initiative is to draw attention to the "difficulties faced by thousands of men, women and children with international protection needs in Greece who have arrived to the country during the last months on risky crossings across the Mediterranean, many of whom are waiting to be relocated in other European Union countries."
The club also highlights that the local Greek population have "every day shown their solidarity and contributed in an exemplary way." Enditem
The holiday season is almost upon us , and with increasingly more individuals gearing up this year to travel throughout the Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation season, the considered doing so your self generally is a daunting prospect. Happily, should you can hold a few things in mind, the upcoming holiday travel season would not have to be quite as overwhelming as in years past.
Directions Are The whole lot
Positive, there are all the stereotypes about men not desirous to ask for directions , and the validity of those stereotypes is for an additional time. That being said, getting high quality instructions that you may belief and that you already know will get you there may be paramount to creating your journey as smooth as possible. Calling your vacation spot, be that a brother, grandmother, uncle , or resort, for instructions is an efficient first step. Not solely will they more than probably know one of the simplest ways to get you there, but they will even most likely know go detours in the event of visitors, accidents, or construction.
Within the event that your destination would not have good directions for you , there are seemingly endless web sites online that will give you flip by turn instructions, distances, occasions, and even maps. Take those with a grain of salt as they might not be utterly updated resulting from building adjustments to traffic patterns, addition or subtraction of exits , or the addition or elimination of traffic signs saying which roads you're allowed to journey on.
Games, Films, Books, and Snacks
The children don't just like the 13 hour drive any greater than you do, however at least you get to drive. Video games , card video games, personal video players, even books (if motion sickness is not a difficulty) are an effective way to assist make the drive pass for kids. Lots of your native electronics shops sell VHS and DVD gamers which have small displays already connected for a very cheap price and can help you avoid having an entire home leisure heart installed into your automobile only for road trips.
Make Sure Your Automobile is Working Fine
Checking your tires for air pressure and tread and checking the oil and coolant in your engine is a simple solution to make sure that you're not one of those families on the facet of the street ready for a tow truck. Every year households find themselves on the facet of the highway with flat tires from worn tread or unhealthy air pressure or with engines billowing smoke from something that will have value next to nothing to have checked and fixed ahead of time. Spending slightly little bit of effort and time up front can save you spending plenty of time and money later.
Test Your Insurance coverage
When you definitely don't want anything dangerous to occur, in the event that something bad does occur, it helps to have your insurance data with you. Just about any state you're travelling via would require you to have some form of car insurance , even if it is just low-cost automotive insurance. Making sure that you have your insurance coverage information, whether it is North Carolina car insurance, Virginia car insurance, or one other state, is an efficient approach to ensure that if the worst occurs , you understand what you are covered against.
Earlier than you set out you should also examine to see what your insurance covers in the way of towing, roadside help, and rentals in the occasion something does occur to your automobile and also you need assistance or another method to proceed your vacation. Getting caught at Grandma's house as a result of your insurance would not cover a rental and your automobile exploded is not any solution to spend the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday.
Be Ready
This is the vacation driving season, when the seeming entirety of the United States driving population will converge on the roads at the similar time. Plan ahead to offer yourself loads of time, factoring in stops for food , gasoline, and just to stretch your legs. Go away early and expect to get to your destination early. Keep in mind that for every nice driver out there that can allow you to merge in front of them there's someone that may reduce you off and cause an accident in the event you're not paying attention. Keep on your toes, chill out, and enjoy your trip this holiday s.