This Wednesday, January 10 marks the start of the 2024 Yellow Pieces operation. Since 2019, Brigitte Macron is here President of the Hospital Foundation, after nearly twenty-five years of investment in this function by Bernadette Chirac. The coach of the French team, Didier Deschamps, has been the sponsor of the operation since 2019. Before him, other celebrities have invested body and soul in the Yellow Pieces, through trips to hospitals and events to promote small piggy banks and collect donations. This was particularly the case of David Douillet and Lorie.
The former judoka, David Douillet, was the godfather of the Yellow Pieces between 1997 and 2008. This charitable adventure allowed him to meet the Chirac couple on a regular basis, and in particular Bernadette Chirac, with whom he crisscrossed the territory meeting elected officials, patients and nursing staff. “We traveled to five or six cities per season, by train, while monitoring the projects. When I gave judo demonstrations, I managed to go to the university hospitals where we had launched operations to check that things were progressing”told the French champion Figaro in 2016. From this commitment, a political vocation was born in David Douillet, who would subsequently exercise power as a deputy and member of government.
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Estelle Lefébure and Christian Karembeu also mobilized
For his part, Lorie was officially the godmother of the Yellow Pieces from 2008. But she did not wait for this official title to get involved, since she was already regularly present alongside the former First Lady of France. Already very active within the Enfoirés, the singer who also became an actress has never hesitated to share her significant aura with the French population. to give visibility to causes. Estelle Lefébure was also at the heart of the Yellow Pieces operation for many years. The ex-model was notably lambassador of the Maisons des adolescents for the Foundation from 2009.
Christian Karembeu was also personally involved in the operation after his professional career. The former French footballer was the godfather of the Yellow Pieces between 2011 and 2017. “We must work to ensure that hospitalized children and adolescents can, as much as possible, live in the hospital as at home. What a joy to see a child surrounded by his family, of his friends, of his games, in a fun and colorful universe, the first step towards healing has been launched!” he declared on the Hospital Foundation website in 2016. Although he is no longer sponsor of the Yellow Pieces, Christian Karembeu remains mobilized. For example, in October 2021, he was alongside the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, during a charity football match, for the benefit of the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France.
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2024-01-10 12:53:58
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