The Real Madrid Foundation and Medical Service Care renew their collaboration to promote the Basketball Program in Hospitals
Butragueño, Enrique Sánchez, and José Muriana participated in the signing ceremony of the agreement.
The Real Madrid Foundation and Medical Service Care have renewed their collaboration agreement, in effect since 2018, to continue developing social sports projects in hospitals and care centers for vulnerable people in Spain. Enrique Sánchez, vice president of the Real Madrid Foundation; José Muriana, CEO of Medical Service Care; and Emilio Butragueño, director of Institutional Relations of Real Madrid, participated in the signing event, which took place in the auditorium of Ciudad Real Madrid.
The Real Madrid Foundation continues its Basketball Program in Hospitals, incorporating basketball as part of the physical, emotional, and social recovery process, offering weekly sessions aimed at improving the well-being of patients. The activities are conducted using the Foundation's educational methodology For a REAL Education: Values and Sport.
The sessions are tailored to the abilities of each participant and are complemented with dynamics and recreational activities that reinforce the values being taught. During the last season, nearly 2,000 people benefited from the program.
Additionally, Medical Service Care supports the work of the Real Madrid Foundation in India through its collaboration with IIMC Spain, chaired by Dr. José Muriana. Thanks to this support since 2011, the Foundation has been developing a social sports school in Kheadah, Kolkata, in collaboration with the Institute for Indian Mother and Child (IIMC). There, 150 boys and girls participate in training sessions and receive school supplies, scholarships, and nutritional support in an area with high poverty rates and school dropout levels.
Butragueño explained: “Through sports, we bring to hospitals a different space that motivates, transmits values, and, in many cases, manages to bring a smile during difficult times.” Meanwhile, José Muriana stated: “For us, it is always a source of pride to renew our collaboration with the Real Madrid Foundation and to think that in the future, we can even expand it, which is what we hope for.”
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