Barcelona and Real Madrid are united in commitment to helping those in need in Haiti
Barcelona and Real Madrid are united in commitment to helping those in need in Haiti
FC Barcelona showed their willingness to help those in need with a donation of €250,000 to the aid relief programme in Haiti. Real Madrid plans to provide funds to rebuild a school that was destroyed in the earthquake in Haiti.
Barcelona’s Initiative:
Barça hope to help in two directions by giving economic support and finance to Doctors Without Borders to ensure there is health care and also to reconstruct a school connected with XICS. Segú also revealed that a party from Barça will travel to Haiti within the next few weeks.
Players have also been showing their support with Thierry Henry making a donation of €56,000 on Friday.
“I am very touched by this tragedy and it is very good that everybody should mobilise in order to help Haiti,” Henry, the captain of France, told the club’s television station.
“This touches me because almost 20 years ago something similar happened in (the French Caribbean island of) Guadeloupe and I know what the Haitians must be going through. I have many friends over there. Haiti is a former French colony and it’s as if we are cousins.
"We must help them. I felt I should do something and that’s why I have decided to make a donation to Medecins sans Frontieres,” said the former Arsenal favourite.
The Blaugrana’s director general Joan Oliver confirmed that the club have agreed to the move after considering for a few days what they could do to help through the Fundación. “We did not want to just do something random, but something that will help in the medium term,“ he explained.
Real Madrid’s Initiative:
Team president Florentino Perez said the Real Madrid Foundation will donate money to resurrect the Ecole Saint Gerard in Port-au-Prince.
Real Madrid will work with a Spanish NGO that founded the school. It had 1,200 students but was flattened in the quake, with some 300 children killed, Perez said at a ceremony at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
Perez said, "Haiti has suffered an absolute disaster and we face a great challenge, but we must not think it is impossible to achieve.”
The team also plans to create a soccer school and social club that will provide Haitian children with medical care and food.
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