AS Roma have launched a
campaign urging all the world's soccer clubs and fans to support
agencies that help migrants.
The Football Cares initiative is aimed at helping the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Save The
Children, tghe International Rescue Committee and the Red Cross,
Roma Chairman James Pallotta said in illustrating the initiative
Tuesday and giving it a cheque of over half a million euros.
Of that sum, 250,000 comes from the club, 75,000 from
investors in it, and 250,000 is a personal donation from
Pallotta.
Fiorentina, Bologna and Torino, as well as the Lega Calcio
of Serie A and that of Serie B, have already said they will back
the scheme, and more clubs from Europe and America are expected
to join this week.
"We have already actively participated in Italy in several
projects helping refugees," said the Boston businessman
"But after seeing the images coming from Europe and the
Middle East in the last week we thought that Roma should do a
lot more and so we have accepted this new challenge and this
responsibility," he said.
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