News

2011-10-05 14:22

Two Successful Sicher im Kiez! Weeks Completed

During the last two weeks of September, two classes from the Janusz Korczak Primary School in Neukölln were able to participate in Sicher im Kiez!.

2011-10-04 14:22

Sicher im Kiez! receives the Berlin Sports Integration Prize 2011

In September, Sicher im Kiez! was awarded the Berlin Sports Integration Prize.

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Press Responses

2011-07-14 14:22

EMMA Magazine, Summer 2011

Celina enters the gym and walks towards the boxing bag. She focuses, tenses her body. She bends forward and hits the leather with bare knuckles.

Read more … EMMA Magazine, Summer 2011

2011-07-12 14:22

Der Spiegel 24/2011

She had to summon all her courage to be seen like this, with a basketball tucked under her arm, as a veiled athlete at a forbidden place: at a gym.

About Us

Sicher im Kiez! is a project of Boxgirls Berlin e.V. Boxgirls inspires socially underrepresented groups and especially girls and women to improve their physical, social, and intercultural abilities. Confidence and leadership skills are instilled through a hands-on approach, which enables them to become active members and leaders in their communities.
The work of Boxgirls Berlin and its founder, Prof. Dr. Heather Cameron, has attracted considerable attention from the media and politics alike. Local, national, and international news outlets like Tagesspiegel, TAZ, Frankfurter Rundschau, Zeit Online, the German broadcaster ZDF, and CNN have reported about Boxgirls and its work. Lately, Boxgirls was awarded the “startsocial Sonderpreis” of the German government and Sicher im Kiez! was among the winners of the 2011 “Integrationspreis des Berliner Sports”.