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30.10.2007 16:02
Agreement with Rafa Márquez Foundations
Marc Parramon
At midday today, FC Barcelona and Rafa Márquez’s respective Foundations signed a deal to bond them for the next three years to work on a XICS project for Mexican children.
First team star Rafa Márquez has signed an agreement with the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, the idea being to construct and set in motion a joint Solidarity Centre for Education and Sport in the city of El Salto, in Guadalajara (Mexico). The signature session was also attended by Alfons Godall, vice president of the social area, and Lander Unzueta, the general manager of the Fundació FC Barcelona.
“It is fantastic that a
Foundation that has made such an impact in Europe and the world as is that of Barça is
collaborating with and designing projects together with the Rafa Márquez Foundation”, said
the Mexican defender. President Joan Laporta added that “today is a very important day for
our Foundation. The dynamic of developing XICS centres is working and this agreement with the Rafa
Márquez Foundation is an example”.
New XICS centre in Mexico
The construction of this centre forms parts of the Fundació FC Barcelona XICS programme (International Network of Solidarity Centres), the Foundation’s international programme that has already done so much good for the Senegalese city of Richard Toll.
The agreement is valid for three years and unites the two foundations as they work to set up an integral programme that will use sport as the basis to providing support, education, health and nutritional care, as well as psychosocial support to the most vulnerable children in the city of El Salto, in Guadalajara.
Foundation committed to children
The Rafa Márquez Foundation is a non-profit making institution that aims to carry out social work
that can complement what schools do for children and adolescents at risk of personal and social
exclusion by supporting them in terms of educational, health, nutritional and family and social
matters. The Foundation’s aid programme is defined by the promotion of integral development
for children in the marginal communities of the country in order to improve their standard of
living, and to improve their opportunities.
