EL NUEVO DIARIO, SAN FRANCISCO.- With the support of the Gigantes del Cibao, dozens of high-performance Franco-Corisano athletes received food rations within the extensive social assistance program that the sports organization has been implementing in favor of those most in need during the pandemic.
Renowned athletes belonging to the national teams of judo, Olympic wrestling, baseball, chess, basketball, soccer, athletics, koftball, boxing among other sports disciplines received numerous essential items.
Prestigious coaches, technical personnel, referees, sports chroniclers and broadcasters linked to the area of sport were also benefited, who since the beginning of the pandemic had not been taken into account with any aid from the private or public sector.
Likewise, the deputy of the province Duarte Dorina Rodríguez gave dozens of Christmas bonuses to several athletes from various sports disciplines.
For his part, Senator Franklin Romero and the director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI) delivered Christmas bonuses to national team athletes as well as to renowned coaches and referees from the Duarte province.
The outstanding athlete national baseball team Rosy Santos, representing all athletes, thanked the organizing committee of the San Vicente games as well as the Gigantes del Cibao, for taking into account the Franco-Corisano athletes with these important donations.
“We thank Samir Rizek, president of the Gigantes del Cibao, for such an important gesture of bringing food to the athletes of our province that since March we have had to stay in our homes and stop training to avoid getting COVID 19” , he expressed.
The activity was headed by the godmother of the Gigantes del Cibao, Elizabeth Ureña, the mascot of the Gigantes, the deputy Dorina Rodríguez, among others.
In addition to the Gigantes del Cibao, the activity was supported by the Nordestana Credit Corporation, the engineer Olmedo Caba, director of INDRHI, Senator Franklin Romero, Congressman Dorina Rodríguez, the athletes living in the city of New York Wilton Camilo Santos and Rennie Almánzar , Jardín Constanza, the New York resident businessman
Víctor José Abreu, among others.
The journalist Tony Reyes, general coordinator of the San Vicente games, was in the coordination of the activity under the supervision of the outstanding technicians Domingo Ortega, Juan Manuel Javier, Enriquillo Mena, Omar Javier, Juan Eligio Rojas, among others.
