Everyone living in refugee camps should have a place to play.

Hi, we’re KLABU 👋🏼 We build community-led sports clubs in refugee camps, creating welcoming places where everyone can play.

Our clubhouses are packed with sports equipment and come with live matches, music and Wi-Fi. They’re places to play, meet and connect. Because sport is about much more than staying active. It builds confidence, friendships, skills and a sense of belonging.

From the very beginning, we work with refugee refugee and host community members to lead the clubs themselves. Local teams shape the activities, bring people together and make the club their own. It’s their KLABU.

KLABU means ‘club’ in Swahili. We built our first clubhouse in the Kalobeyei Settlement in Kenya, where the community started calling it their klabu. Today, you can find KLABU clubhouses around the world, from Kenya, Brazil and Jordan to our home city of Amsterdam.

Our dream is big: everyone living in a refugee camp should have a place to play. And there’s a long way to go. There have never been more refugees in the world than today, and millions spend years living in camps and settlements.

We see how sport can rally support like nothing else. That’s why we work with partners and supporters including UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, sportswear company On and architecture firm MVRDV. Together with MVRDV, we developed a modular KLABU clubhouse that can be scaled to communities around the world.

KLABU is both a foundation and a social enterprise. The KLABU Foundation works with local communities to build and run our clubhouses. Our social enterprise creates sportswear and collaborations that allow supporters around the world to wear the club and play their part.

Join the KLABU. Wear our shirts. Become a member. Pass on the spirit of sport.