Leo Messi starts up its foundation

Messi wants to help the underprivileged children

The Foundation of Lionel Messi, with hardly a month of life, begins to work with the glance put in the ill children of Rosario

To help the underprivileged children will be the main objective of the Foundation of Lionel Messi, born for a month, and that in two weeks will begin to take to force with the company/signature of an agreement with USP Hospitals Foundation Alex.

During the course of the Godó match, that will dispute between 23 and 29 of April, one will take in a date still to need a protocolic act that it will allow to initiate an action according to which the Foundation of Lionel Messi is committed to help every year of one of ten ill children and without possibilities of Rosary (Argentina).

Perhaps sensitized by its origins and their problems of childhood (it underwent a growth hormone deficit), Messi wants to center its forces outside lands of game in the underprivileged children.

With this agreement of collaboration with USP Hospitals, Messi it has predicted to bring to Barcelona to children with different problems from health so that they are treated in hospitals of Catalunya. The Foundation of Messi is committed to pay the transfer of the patient, to receive to him in Barcelona, to deal with it with the doctors this hospital, to pay the stay to him, the treatment, the expenses that are generated of the recovery and the ticket from return to their country.

The fact that these children must be treated in Barcelona is because the hospitals of Rosary have deficiencies: They exist déficits in having means necessary to heal some diseases and also there are problems in the time of too great delay to be treated for being.

Messi wants to contribute its sand grain to obtain one better quality of life for its compatriots who as much admire to him. It wants to avoid, as far as possible, that they are with problems that he himself suffered in his childhood.

For that reason it is committed to make use to these chavales that wait for more of their hospitals or better attention of their doctors.

This is of the first performance of the Foundation Lionel Messi whose objectives will be centered in the children. The first contact has been with the Foundation Alex, who counts on the endorsement of Gabriel Masfurroll. This Foundation develops programs of collaboration with Land of Men, project Dawn, Assido (Association for People with Syndrome of Down), Talita Foundation, Special Olympics, for Invest Children, Chinguetti Foundation, Foundation the Small Desire. Also it tries to foment the sport by means of diverse initiatives and with the institution of a prize that recognizes the medical work in the scope of the medicine of the sport. Between the passion by the sport and the will to help patients it is where east agreement is born of collaboration between USP Foundation Alex and the one of Lionel Messi.

USP Foundation Alex carries out numerous pioneering projects led by prestige doctors. Among them, projects like Plasma Rico in Factors of Growth, Cells Mother, Investigation in Human Reproduction, Investigation in Gynecological Oncología, Investigation in Percutánea Surgery.