Feed hope through sport

As vaccination progresses, we are recovering the long-awaited “normality” that we left behind on March 14, 2020 when COVID-19 broke into our lives.

 

This "normality" is being translated, among other things, in the return of official competitions and the reactivation of sporting challenges in favor of social causes.

 

Sport mobilizes emotions and feelings, but above all it can influence people's attitudes and behaviors. The values ​​that sport transmits (effort, improvement, perseverance, equality, respect, solidarity…) acquire a new dimension when they are done for a good cause.

 

 

Imagine now that you run representing a cause, that each step you take in a race not only brings you closer to the goal, but also impacts the life of one person or several people. You would be the leader, not only of the sporting challenge, but of a campaign, of a cause, of a project, of impact. Thanks to you and your effort, great things could be achieved. This is what we call sport with values.

 

 

Effort, improvement, perseverance, equality, respect, sportsmanship, camaraderie and above all solidarity: dare, lead and turn your personal success into a collective one.

 

 

 

 

If you have a loved one affected by a disease who needs visibility and funds for research, or if you are sensitized towards a specific cause, you know of a social project and want to support it or if you simply want to help those who need it most, but you are not sure how To do so, get inspired by these examples that will motivate you to become a leader in a solidarity-sports challenge:

 

• Although Jaime Lafita has been affected by ALS since 2016, this sad disease has not stopped him from leading the DalecandELA team and showing that even with a damaged engine, you can live, you can enjoy yourself and you can achieve great challenges, such as of Challenge Brussels. Jaime, overcoming himself and his illness, has carried out the great challenge of covering the more than 1,300km that separate Getxo (Bizkaia) from Brussels without the help of any motorized means. He set out with his team on a sailing boat on June 11 and arrived in France, where they continued their journey by bicycle until arriving in Brussels on June 21. The more than € 10,000 that are being raised with this great sporting challenge will be used to research this terrible disease without a cure.
• Pep Vega's mother died in 1997 due to Lupus. From the day that Pep died, she was very aware that she wanted to do something to return all the effort, care and treatment that the doctors, nurses and hospital staff gave her. In memory of his mother and to give hope to all those afflicted with this disease, Pep has created the KMS project for Lupus research.

• Official competitions are back! Lope Yagüe was dying to compete again and has signed up for the Vienna Marathon with which he has proposed a double challenge, improving his 3h and 25 min mark that he achieved in his last marathon and raising € 3,000 in favor of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Association. Will it succeed?

• Álex cannot conceive of life without his bicycle, it is his hobby, his modus vivendi and his way of making this world a better place. Through his project "The bike is beautiful" he has created the challenge Kilometers for education ". With this challenge he intends to travel 10,000 km and raise € 10,000 in favor of Bicycles without Borders, with the aim of acquiring bicycles and giving an opportunity to students from Senegal schools further away from the towns and thus avoid absenteeism or school dropouts. With the slogan "We do not give bicycles, we change lives" every day he gains more followers from his cycling community, more ambassadors for this cause by raising funds for education.

 

• Enter migranodearena and go to the button Create your challenge
• Tell us why you are mobilizing: Sports test
• Select the organized event or Do not select event.
• Choose the beneficiary NGO you want to support with your solidarity challenge.
• Login or Register
• Complete the information of your solidarity challenge (title, short description or subtitle, description, fundraising objective and campaign end date.)
• Add photos and video
• Spread your challenge (word of mouth, social networks, WhatsApp). Use all possible channels so that all your friends and family know that you are carrying out this solidarity initiative and support your cause.