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How proud to receive an award and even more before Rafael Nadal. The Spanish tennis player and telephone have been present at the I Awards of the Rafael Nadal Foundation held this March 27 at Es Baluard, Palma’s Museum of Contemporary Art. An appointment that had the special participation of the Unesco. Each award-winning entity will receive a financial endowment of €15,000 to contribute to the development of the winning project.
Development cooperation: Kirira Foundation
The project gives access to education to girls and adolescents at risk of suffering female genital mutilation, through the construction of a classroom, equipped with solar energy at the Nkaraku Primary School (Kenya), to facilitate a free, safe and secure future. away from violence, thus contributing to the realization of the educational campaign against the different types of violence based on gender.
Sport: Casal dels Infants
The “Impulse Project” is a social promotion program for girls aged 12 to 16 in the municipality of Salt (Girona). Sport is used as the backbone to improve physical, mental and emotional health, from a gender perspective. It is based on sports practice as the transforming axis of their personal, family and community reality.
Education: El Arca Association
This is an accompaniment experience at the service of the right to education focused on supporting educational transitions in contexts of high vulnerability as a strategy to improve the school success of minors. It responds to the need to intervene and support at key moments in the educational process, collaborating with the formal educational system.
Social Innovation: Moms in Action
Accompaniment for boys and girls who do not have parents or cannot live with them when they are sick and alone in the hospital, doing the same as we would do with our children. It is an initiative in which love is given, monsters are caught, stories are told, bottles are given and days and nights are spent at the foot of hospital beds. Objective: #NiUnNiñoSolo
Health and Well-being: What Really Matters Foundation
The “Your Story Really Matters” initiative is a tribute to our elders that turns young people into witnesses of the past, allowing them to learn and enrich themselves from those who know the most about life. Each volunteer has the mission of accompanying and listening to an older person, breaking down the elements of his life story and making the publication of his biography a reality.
Rafa Nadal attended the ceremony very excited about the launch of this new initiative of his foundation, grateful to those present for their assistance. In Rafa’s own words, “it has been an honor” to celebrate this first edition on the Mallorcan island, his home, and He is very happy to promote such an exciting new project. The Balearic tennis player also dedicated some nice words to Telefónica for their support. The president of the Spanish company, Jose Maria Alvarez-Palleteleft his seal of thanks to Nadal and showed himself as main ally of these awards.
Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social Sciences, has been part of the awards jury. She also took part in the ceremony highlighting the importance of sport in favor of health, education and equality. in your account TwitterRamos declared that it is “a privilege” to be at the 1st Rafa Nadal Foundation Awards together with the man from Manacor.
the journalist Susana Guasch presented a gala that featured a stellar performance by Jorge Bedoya, pianist from Madrid. Emotion in abundance.
The Rafael Nadal Foundation works with the firm conviction that sport and education are transforming tools with which we can achieve a better world. Accompany children and young people on their way to a quality future.
He develops different projects in Spain and India with which he directly contributes to achieving four of the 17 most important Sustainable Development Goalswhich in turn become its four major axes of impact.
SDG 3 – Health and well-being: the promotion of the practice of regular physical activity is one of the bases of all their projects.
SDG 4 – Quality education: Quality education is not only academic education, it also includes non-formal education, education in values, physical education and emotional education.
SDG 10 – Reduction of inequalities: they try to offer equal opportunities to all people regardless of their condition.
SDG 17 – Partnerships to achieve the goals: Your work system is in a network with other organizations and companies.
Their intervention becomes a reality through the different projects they have active.
Social integration of vulnerable minors:
- Rafa Nadal Palma Foundation Center
- Rafa Nadal Valencia Foundation Center
- Rafa Nadal Madrid Foundation Center
- NETS (Nadal Educational Tennis School) in Anantapur (India)
Intellectual disability:
Talent promotion:
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