During his trip to Valencia this coming weekend to play the league match, the Real Betis Balompiéthrough its Foundation, will visit the Orba Early Childhood and Primary Education School, in Alfafar, a town located in the heart of zone zero of the DANA that has done so much damage to the Valencian Community, to deliver sports equipment.
Rafael Gordillo, accompanied by Joaquín Sánchez and members of the club, will be in charge of carrying the aforementioned material on the Real Betis bus to this school. They will do so on Saturday morning and it will be the first school to receive these sports contributions from the Real Betis Balompié Foundation, which will soon announce the new line of action to help schools and sports centers in the area.
The green and white club will provide these new aid to encourage children and young people in the area, through the practice of sports in their schools and sports centers, to be able to return to their normal lives as soon as possible.
Likewise, Trainline, sponsor of Real Betis, will give up its space on the back of the green and white shirt as a show of support for those affected by DANA. Instead of the name of the leading platform for the sale of train and bus tickets, the Betis team will show off realbetisconvalencia.es, the financial donations website that the Foundation launched so that fans and anyone can participate in the actions that the club started in support of the Valencian Community. Another collaborator of the entity, Textprint, has decided to join this initiative, providing free transfers that will show the name of this website.
In addition to this way to help the victims, the Real Betis Balompié Foundation installed a collection point for urgent humanitarian material in the Luis del Sol sports city and in front of the Benito Villamarín Stadium, an initiative in which the Betis and residents of the city they overturned A total of three trailers moved to the affected areas of Valencia with the most necessary material in the first weeks after the disaster.
On the other hand, the Real Betis Balompié Foundation was also supporting the NGO SOS Ayuda Sin Fronteras, which was in the area, from the beginning of the disaster, providing it with emergency material and equipment. From the first moment, the green and white entity was in coordination with the VCF Foundation and the Levante UD Foundation to provide them with all the help possible.
This action is framed within the Social Emergency Program of the Verdiblanca Foundation, which tries to provide service and relieve society in emergency situations. In addition to during the difficult stage of the pandemic, when this program was born, Real Betis has already carried out aid campaigns for the citizens of Ukraine after the Russian invasion, for the residents of La Palma affected by the Cumbre Vieja volcano or to help after the earthquakes in Morocco, Libya, Turkey and Syria.
