FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta has introduced that funds earned by means of the Membership’s Basis-run actions over current weeks to assist individuals affected by the DANA will probably be used to assist restore the municipal sports activities centres in Benetússer and Catarroja, and the El Terrer municipal sports activities floor in Paiporta. The announcement was made throughout a go to by a blaugrana delegation led by president Laporta, who was accompanied by vice-president Elena Fort, administrators Miquel Camps, Josep Ignasi Macià and Sisco Pujol, and the Basis’s director, Dr Marta Segú. Their go to took within the cities hit by the tragedy that value 227 lives in October final 12 months.
The go to began on the Benetússer council constructing, the place the blaugrana delegation met with the city’s mayor Eva Sanz, the mayor of Catarroja, Lorena Silvent, and the mayor of Paiporta, Maribel Albalat. The three cities are situated in floor zero for the DANA flooding, and had beforehand been visited by FC Barcelona Basis director Marta Segú in December final 12 months. The delegation then travelled to totally different components of the affected space, which remains to be a way from returning to regular, with penalties of the weather-induced disaster nonetheless being skilled.
Through the emergency itself, FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta and Dr Segú contacted the mayors of the three cities immediately to specific their solidarity and to supply direct collaboration and monetary assist from the Membership and the FC Barcelona Basis.
Charity public sale and donations
To this finish, FC Barcelona and its Basis organised quite a lot of actions to indicate its dedication to these most affected. Firstly, a particular fund from the Barça Basis’s personal coffers was offered, and moreover, extra funds have been raised by way of an on-line charity public sale of the package worn by the boys’s first workforce gamers within the current derby in opposition to Espanyol and within the sport in opposition to Valencia on 26 January. The primary public sale raised round 90,000 euro.
Moreover and for a number of weeks now, blaugrana members and followers usually have been capable of collaborate by making a donation by way of the Row 0 Assist Fund. Donations could be made by way of this hyperlink. It’s also potential to donate by way of Bizum to 10758.
The purpose is to allocate the funds to restoring areas in order that kids and younger individuals can get again to taking part in exterior as regular, and to allow them to usually and safely play sport of their native space with out having to journey to different much less affected areas. These actions by the Barça Basis purpose to assist them get again to residing usually, and as such, present a optimistic influence on their psychological well being, and on their bodily and emotional well-being.
The FC Barcelona Basis has at all times needed to behave with the very best potential stage of professionalism, being conscious of the tragedy’s results on the bottom, and never ship supplies or sources with out understanding the true magnitude and influence of the DANA floods. There may be additionally consciousness of wants over the medium-term, when the media highlight is usually elsewhere. These wants are additionally very a lot consistent with the Barça Basis’s mission – to make use of sport to assist enhance well-being and defend kids and younger individuals in susceptible conditions.