The movement in favor of awareness and fundraising to fight diabetes in Sant Joan Despí continues to take steps. Off Diabetes will participate with three teams in the next Vertical Monserrat, the entity has reported.
It will be next May 25 when “they will climb the 2,180 steps that separate the lower station of the Montserrat rack railway with the upper station of Sant Joan.” “The Vertical of Montserrat is one of the most magical and epic races in Spain,” they said. According to its website, the race is a “solidarity initiative of Bombers de la Generalitat within the solidarity project Bombers amb Causa and was born with a double objective: to obtain funds to finance research programs for childhood diseases, and care for boys and girls at risk of exclusion, which are developed in the Sant Joan de Déu centres, as well as promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities”.
The objective of Off Diabetes Sant Despí, led by José Antonio Jiménez and Víctor Torres Prados, is to “walk against diabetes” to make it visible. For this reason, they will wear their identifying t-shirts, which they will also wear at other events, races and walks throughout the year. They have also created some solidarity pens.
Jiménez is a taxi driver from Sant Joan Despí who since 2016 learned that his daughter suffers from diabetes, he has not stopped moving to make visible and raise awareness about this condition, even involving FC Barcelona itself and the Escolanía de Montserrat. A long-distance race.
