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Spectacular gesture

The grandísimo detail solidario of Xavi with the refugees

Published:2/08/2016 - 20:37h

Updated:2/08/2016 - 20:37h

The one who went midfield player and captain of the FC Barcelona had an incredible gesture with the refugees of the Mediterranean when putting in auction his yacht to raise funds. Xavi Hernández collaborates like this with an inicitativa solidaria of a NGO

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The midfield player of the To the Sadd of Qatar Xavi Hernández has had a gesture without precendentes for with the NGO Proactiva OpenArms . The canterano of the FC Barcelona decided to give his yacht "The Pelopina" to said non-profit entity to collaborate with the refugees of the Mediterranean.

The Catalan delivered the past Monday the keys of his yacht of re-create of nine metres of length and 2,60 metres of sleeve, endowed of an engine of 325 horses. With this, the intention of Xavi is that the money achieved in the auction was employed to fund the rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean.

The recent wars in Syria and Iraq, as well as the increasing problems in Africa, have done that Europe receive increasingly people in research of a future that in his places of origin would not have. Something that has done that the European authorities have seen desbordadas by the number of people and tambén by the politics taken by different countries of not helping to these people.

The NGO Proactiva Open Arms is an exemplary organisation that already has saved more than three thousand lives in the appointed mar. The initiative of Xavi is all a milestone and expects that thanks to her are others the personalities that add to help to the most disadvantaged.

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