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FEATURED PROJECTS
28 May 2009
On the occasion
of FC Barcelona's win in the UEFA Champions League, we highlight the
work of the FC Barcelona Foundation.
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The FC Barcelona
Foundation
The FC Barcelona Foundation has found some important partners in its
quest to benefit children.
Three United Nations agencies have wished to join forces with the
Foundation: Unicef, UNESCO and UNHCR.
Partnership with Unicef
This agreement will last for five years and involves a financial
contribution of 1.5 million euros a year for integral projects selected
by the Foundation and UNICEF to benefit vulnerable children.
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Agreement with
UNESCO
The Barcelona Foundation seeks to raise awareness of the role of
education and sport in the development and welfare of young people. The
five-year agreement implies no fixed financial contribution but rather
a commitment by the two organisations to develop activities.
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Agreement
with UNHCR
For three years, programmes will be run in refugee camps around the
world. The agreement does not imply any fixed financial contribution
but rather the commitment of both organisations to obtaining the
required resources.
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more...
About the FC
Barcelona Foundation
Mission
The mission of the
Fundació FC Barcelona is to promote an emblematic social model
through the development of solidarity, cultural and educational
activities (both our own and as part of collaborations) to enable the
consolidation of Barça’s social commitment to being
“More than a club” in Catalonia, Spain and the world,
positioning us in a unique dimension on a global scale.
Objectives
The general objectives of the
Fundació FC Barcelona are:
- To promote actions concerning
the fight against extreme poverty and illnesses that affect mainly the
most vulnerable children of the planet and to favour education for all
and gender equality, as stipulated by the Millennium Development Goals
(MDG).
- To promote and offer tools to
foster the values of sport among children, such as effort, respect,
companionship and tolerance, both on a school level as on that of
sports and leisure centres.
- To favour and encourage
actions aimed at the social normalisation of people with disabilities,
immigrants and other groups at risk of social exclusion.
- To contribute to the
development of culture, the defence of civilian values, freedom and
democracy, which have always defined our club and the history of our
country.
- To promote youth sport and
the academic training of the sportspeople forming part of the
Barça institution.
- To give support and
assistance to veteran players that have formed and still form part of
the history of our club.
History
Since it was constituted in
1994, the Fundació FC Barcelona has been an eternal source of
civilian participation through the numerous social, cultural and
sporting activities that the club has organised, and which reflect the
advanced society in which the club is located and the way that the
Foundation is such an ideal vehicle for promoting them.
In the early years of the
Foundation, Barça members and fans gave their individual but
unconditional support to the project through contributions that were
complemented by donations from the main companies in the country, which
became honorary members, collaborating members and protective members
of the Foundation.
From 2006, the Fundació
FC Barcelona began a new phase in which it changed direction and became
the social identity par excellence of FC Barcelona.
This point of inflection was
marked by FC Barcelona’s adhesion to the United Nations
Millennium Development Goals and the donation of 0.7% of the
club’s ordinary income to the Foundation to support its
programmes and projects. This has led to the strengthening of our early
alliances with Unicef, UNESCO and UNHCR/ACNUR, and was culminated with
Futbol Club Barcelona being awarded a position as a member of the
ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations).
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