Maria Perez Not only is he an example for the world of sport in general and athletics in particular, but he is also a model of solidarity. The Grenadian walker, double medalist at the Paris Olympic Games, led a campaign to collect food and objects that she will bring to Valencia herself to help people affected by DANA.
This Monday, he asked for help via his Instagram account. He asked for a truck and a driver. “I canceled everything I had this week because I have to help people who are going through a really bad time. “I have everything, I just need a truck with a driver to accompany me,” he wrote.
The response did not take long to arrive. According to confirmed to ABC As of 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, October 5, he already has a trailer and two vans “and enough product to fill more trucks, the only thing we need to do is find those trucks now.”
He plans to leave at four in the morning to Catarroja, one of the municipalities that most intensely suffered the destruction caused by the storm. He has family in this area Jacinto Garzonher coach, although María Pérez says she didn’t redouble her efforts for that reason. “Everyone is affected, there are no more than others, it’s something that could have happened to any of us,” he said.
He doesn’t know how many kilos of equipment he will take with him and it’s not something that particularly worries him. “What I want is to happen, for the help to get where it needs to go and for this whole area to recover. But not only now, in the first days after the disaster, when many things are happening, but also later, when it will be necessary to rebuild what has been damaged“.
The goods will arrive at their destination in Catarroja, a place where the relatives of its preparer live. The path, he says, is clear. “I have direct contact to be able to enter,” emphasized the walker, in full preparation for the trip. “Now I need you“, he wrote on Instagram. From the response, it is clear that the people of Granada rose to the occasion.
