The lottery has been played early in the Visually Impaired Association of Catalonia. Following an altruistic custom, rally driver Thierry Neuville has made a generous donation of 4,000 euros to this Catalan organization that focuses on people’s visual health.
The Belgian driver competed this past weekend in the 57th Rally RACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada at the controls of his Hyundai i20 Rally 1. The third-placed driver in the world toured the roads of Tarragona, becoming a spectacle for the fans who crowded the ditches and finished second just 16.4 seconds behind the leader, Sébastien Ogier.
His gift to the Catalan fans did not stop at the skids, accelerations and lines to the limit that he made during the stages, but he donated 4,000 euros to the Associació Discapacitat Visual de Catalunya. The president of the NGO, Anna Morancho, was immediately surprised when the representative contacted them and they could not believe the pilot’s gesture of solidarity.
From the association they explain how Neuville chose the association from a list he had, since in each World Cup event he performs a solidarity action in an entity of the territory where it is disputed. The driver was struck by the activities and the work they were doing, so he contacted them to ensure their donation, as well as an amount based on his position in the test.
The Associació Discapacitat Visual de Catalunya is a non-profit NGO that tries to improve the quality of life of all those people with visual problems and at risk of exclusion.
They carry out activities day after day, they teach how to use a cane, they give psychological treatment to those patients who require it and they try to solve all the difficulties that arise as a result of these disabilities. “With this donation we have won the lottery and Christmas has come early,” said Anna Morancho.
An economic and social aid that has come to them in a year marked by the crisis, the rise in prices and the belated subsidies from the public administration. “There are people who can not afford a cane or hire private care,” declare from the Association.
Although they still do not know how they are going to invest this amount, they assure that they will use it to increase their resources, improve and increase their activities and try to reduce the costs of families derived from the needs caused by this disability.
Thierry Neuville has managed with his donation that a small association that ensures that “social life is not adapted to our disabilities”, can undertake all the projects they had planned before the crisis hit them.
The WRC driver shows how the world of sport once again supports a group that lives in a blind world, that does not observe them, but that sees their daily struggle recognized with actions like this.
