The power of clubs to change people’s lives is enormous. Seconds Stefi Batlle, “from the beginning the Basketball Girona was already born with this vocation for sport, and in this case basketball, to be a tool for social transformation”, explains the CEO of the Girona entity. This Friday, the Ramon Noguera Foundation approached Fontajau, where about twenty boys and girls were able to spend some time and do different activities with James Sorolla i Mindaugas Susinskasplayers of the team of Fotis Katsikaris. They were also able to interview them.
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The joy was endless. “We have been working on these events for a long time and we do it hand in hand CaixaBank, mainly”, remembers Batlle. If the boys and girls were delighted, so were the players. “I think this action is very positive, the boys and girls see us face to face and that is very important. They have also practiced a bit of basketball to know what it’s like and they can learn a lot”, says center Jaume Sorolla.
In the other hand, Pepita Perichmanaging director of the Ramon Noguera Foundation, assessed it as follows: “This initiative helps to make visible, sensitize and normalize the presence and active participation of people with intellectual disabilities in any activity”.
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Throughout the sports season, CaixaBank sponsors other social actions of the Girona Basketball club, such as the Mindset Programan English language program and healthy and sustainable habits offered to students from schools in the Girona counties with the help of the players of the first team, or the collaboration program with the Est Girona Foundationwhich includes actions with neighborhoods at risk of exclusion through the interaction of their children and young people with the players of the first basketball team in sports, educational and cultural activities.
2024-02-23 17:54:10
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