7 Television celebrates for the third consecutive year the Solidarity Awards Gala, which this time will take place in the Auditorium Infanta Elena, Sewer, on February 11.
Seven entities will be recognized for their altruistic work for the benefit of the society of Murcia.
The gala will feature artists such as Javier Alvárez, Laura Uve and Ayoho, and can be followed live on La7 starting at 9:30 p.m.
One of the winners is the Table of Happiness, an initiative promoted by the chef Estrella Carrillo, who met last December 20 17 Murcia chefs who cooked for disadvantaged families and people at risk of social exclusion, 300 guests who also received products donated by hotel businessmen.
The Blue NGO in Action, born in the Local Police of Murcia, also receives the Solidarity Prize.
He has made 52 international cooperation projects.
In their latest project, they have managed to get more than 2,200 Senegalese to improve their ophthalmological health.
We carried out 300 surgical interventions for glaucoma and cataracts, pharmacological treatments that have avoided irreversible blindness, as well as graduation of sight and donation of glasses to 650 people.
The Food Bank of Segura will be awarded for its activity focused on avoiding hunger and food waste, while helping families and people who are on the threshold of poverty or at risk of social exclusion.
This organization collects, stores and distributes food altruistically and sends it to the officially recognized charities.
Another one of the awarded ones is the Social Dining Room 'Beata Piedad de la Cruz', of Alcantarilla, that attends daily to near a hundred of people and provides foods to more than 200 families.
The distribution of food boxes takes place every three weeks and includes non-perishable food, fruits and vegetables.
Of these families, half are Spanish and the other half foreigners of different nationalities;
South Americans, South Africans, Moroccans and Eastern countries, mainly.
The Association of Psychological Disabled Persons of Yecla (AMPY), a non-profit organization established in 1987, will also receive the Solidarity Award. It is a local organization with several centers and programs for the care of people with mental disabilities.
It manages a Special Education School, an occupational center and two professional initiation programs.
The struggle of Mateo Ruiz Jódar for the donation of marrow has earned him one of the Solidarity Awards of La7.
Mateo received three marrow transplants from his brother.
Since then he has campaigned for this cause in the Region.
Chair of the Sport and Transplant Association of Spain, which was born with the objectives of raising awareness in society about the importance of organ donation, bone marrow and blood.
La7 also recognizes the work of the 'Pablo Ugarte' Association against childhood cancer.
Born in 2010 at the initiative of Pablo's parents, its primary objective is to raise funds to support cancer research in children.
Currently they raise more than 39,000 euros per month.
All the money collected is distributed among twenty research projects.
One of them is developed in the Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca.
Finally, the Solidarity Awards make a special mention to the ONCE Foundation.
The National Organization for the Blind celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2018 and continues its work open to the changing social reality, diverse and always dynamic, renewing each year its vocation of service to blind or disabled people to improve their personal and social autonomy. your quality of life.
In 1988 he promoted the ONCE Foundation and in 2014 he joined his socio-business initiatives under the ILUNION brand.
Source: 7TV