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Giving is Winning is a joint IOC-UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) project in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. You – National Olympic Committees, Federations, sponsors, Recognised Organisations, members and supporters of the Olympic Movement are encouraged to donate unused sports and casual clothes, which will then be distributed by the UNHCR to various refugee camps around the globe. This campaign follows a successful first edition, in which close to 30,000 items were collected on the occasion of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Did you know that there are over 20 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world? Every item counts! So join our worldwide team and help us collect 10 containers of clothes for some of the needy millions. The Olympic Movement cares. Let’s share the joy of sport!

 

    

FOLLOW THE CAMPAIGN  Thanks to your generosity 49,426 items of clothing or 9.95 containers have been collected to date.  Thank you for your solidarity.   DONATE NOW

   

Do you have a large quantity of clothes that you do not need? Then contact us now:

 

IOC International Cooperation and Development Department

givingiswinning@olympic.org

Tel.: +41 21 621 64 21

Fax: + 41 21 621 63 54

You can donate in three phases:

July 2007 to July 2008: we will collect most donations in the run-up to the Beijing Olympic Games.

 

During the Beijing Olympic Games: athletes and officials will be able to make small individual donations.

 

September - December 2008: for any surplus clothing you are left with after the Games.

 

FOCUS - The IOC and Human Development (July 2007)

Giving is Winning - leaflet in 6 languages

 Giving is winning on its countdown to Beijing (20 June 2008)
 Make a difference with “Giving is Winning” (17 March 2008)

 Giving is Winning: overtaking results of first campaign (17 October 2007)

 First donation of "Giving is Winning" at its destination (6 August 2007)
 Olympic family amasses sports clothes to give to refugees (6 July 2007)

 A successful partnership: IOC And UNHCR (13 June 2007)

 World Refugee Day 2007 – What sport can contribute (20 June 2007)

  

 Development through sport

 Humanitarian Assistance through Sport 

 UNHCR