Welcome, Warsaw Spirit!
Buckle up, Warsaw! The newly designed KLABU Mobile Clubhouse is in town.
The bus has parked, popped open its doors, and is ready to set play in motion. Newcomers and locals can borrow sports gear for a game of basketball, volleyball or football, challenge the neighbours to a badminton showdown, or grab a controller for a round on the PS4.
When there’s a live match on, everyone can gather around the TV to watch it together. Lockers keep everyone’s things safe, while the refreshment station keeps players going with water, coffee or tea between games.
"It’s like creating a home."
Unlike KLABU’s usual clubhouses, which have a permanent home, the Mobile Clubhouse is designed to move through Warsaw’s scattered refugee communities, turning open asphalt and local pitches into active places to play.
Since 2022, around 200,000 refugees from Ukraine, Belarus, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Georgia have made the Mazovia region their temporary home. They are dispersed across neighbourhoods, reception centres and local schools.
With communities spread across the region, opportunities to meet, play and connect can be far away. The KLABU Mobile Clubhouse, initiated together with our partners Fundacja dla Wolności (Foundation for Freedom) and Adyen, takes that distance head-on: travelling to where people are and inviting their local neighbours to join the game.
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"I’m excited to play more badminton and learn boxing!"
Driving the clubhouse across the region is our local partner Fundacja dla Wolności, who have spent more than 20 years bringing Warsaw together through initiatives like “Etnoliga”, a multicultural league that attracts 700 players every year.
"I’m really happy to see the Warsaw Spirit growing. I hope the clubhouse will be a place where people can meet, have fun, make friends and enjoy different activities together."
Over the coming years, the Mobile Clubhouse will bring more than 5,000 refugees and locals together across Warsaw.
At every stop, it aims to create a space where trust and understanding can grow between newcomers and their neighbours. Side by side, on the same pitch, newcomers find a place to belong and neighbours become teammates and friends. Through play, barriers come down, connections grow, and communities become stronger.
