The agreements signed with internationally prestigious organisations has done wonders for FC Barcelona’s international image, but even more for the beneficiaries, who are children around the world in vulnerable situations. In Miami, the FC Barcelona Foundation signed an agreement with the Fundación Pies Descalzos founded by Shakira and which works with disadvantaged children in Colombia and the United States.

Projecting values to children

The vice president of the FC Barcelona Social Area, Jordi Cardoner, said his fondest memory of his days in the USA is “being with children because it is a world of excitement … It is a world we work with a lot. We basically want to project values to them, for them to be the ones that make use of this tool, sport and football.

Agreement with Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation

In Washington, FC Barcelona presented a collaboration agreement with the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation to eradicate poliomyelitis in an event that had major media repercussions. The director and vice president of the FC Barcelona Foundation, Ramon Pont, who played a big role in the event, said that “being with Bill Gates’ Foundation is priceless”. He repeated the words of the cofounder of Microsoft, who said “we share the same values as FC Barcelona” and added that “for a club to have a foundation is unusual”.

Consolidating the Club’s social commitments

As well as these two agreements, the Club also visited two of its supporters clubs in Miami and Washington, reinforced its commitments to Unicef in an event in Dallas, met the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and visited the FC Barcelona campus in Miami. Cardoner knows that the club’s amazing successes on the pitch have a lot to do with the increased support in America, and said that “from the Social Area we want to strengthen and consolidate our growth and ensure that when the results are not so good, that this support will not change.”