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Alliance with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The International Network of Solidarity Centres for children and young adults from all around the world at risk from social exclusion offer extra-schooling, psycho-social support and allows children and young adults access to sports and leisure activities.

Under the slogan, “More than a goal. Let’s eradicate polio”, the FC Barcelona Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are working to eradicate polio, through awareness campaigns and joint actions.

Alliance with Leo Messi FoundationThe objective is to promote education, health, sport and developement in the country’s most underprivileged areas of Argentina.

Fair Football

Method of social assistance that helps educate via sport and allows youngsters to deal with such ideas as social harmony, discrimination, gender equality, etc.

Created in 1994, the FC Barcelona Foundation is the vehicle through which the club fulfils its corporate social responsibilities.

All the projects that are developed use sport as a focal point, principally, with the idea of promoting education and civic values amongst children and young adults in both Catalonia and in the rest of the world.

More than 220,000 beneficiaries

We are what we do...

We are what we do... is a project set up by the FC Barcelona Foundation that will feature awareness campaigns related to different positive values, habits and behaviours that need to be encouraged in our society like healthy diet, respect, solidarity and social integration.

The Foundation at a Glance

Alliance with the Inter-American Development Bank (BID)Project carried out in Rio de Janeiro to redevelop 18 Olympic villages (sports facilities in the city favelas) that help promote social inclusion via sport.

Sport for Education

Project that offers teaching resources linked to the idea of physical activity for teachers, monitors and other professionals who work with children and young adults at risk of social exclusion.

Alliance with UNICEF Ground breaking agreement in the world of sport through which FC Barcelona donates 1.5 million Euros annually to UNICEF to help carry out projects jointly to aid vulnerable children around the world.

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán AwardAward for outstanding journalism in the field of sport.

Alliance with UNESCO Fight against racism and violence in sport with the objective of promoting education and literacy amongst vulnerable children.

Alliance with the ‘'Fundación Pies Descalzos’

The FC Barcelona Foundation and the Pies Descalzos Foundation are working together on the project “Football for youth development and a healthy life” which includes the construction of sporting and recreational areas in Cartagena (Colombia) and Miami (United States).