Carla Pereira: "We have a great challenge, and if it’s about challenges, we’re there"

This Sunday in the preview of the match between Atletico Madrid and the Seville will close the campaign food collection Against Hunger We Give Everything who presides Diego Pablo Simeon Y Carla Pereira. It started on May 5 and had a variety of collection points with 161 clubs distributed to up to four communities Spain.

An initiative already, as narrated Carla Pereira an MD started in “2015 because we wanted to do our own thing. We always work with different associations and we like to get involved from different places. Then we came on a food drive. But of course we couldn’t and we needed infrastructure, so we decided to talk to Foundation to see if they support us. Also to someone who helped us with distribution, someone credible, we thought Red Cross And we’ve had an amazing relationship ever since. “

It will be the eighth time and like everything in life the beginnings are difficult. “The first time we set up the tent, we put it in the old stadium Vicente Calderón. It was seven o’clock and it was raining. The rain is strong. People didn’t know where that was, they got lost, but we accumulated more than we expected. The following year, we set ourselves a slightly bigger challenge, then over time we went to Wanda. Gradually people got to know us and more and more people came. Join Las Peñas and they are doing it with more and more enthusiasm. There are already 161. Then the pandemic hit us, and we had to reinvent ourselves, we asked people to donate because it can’t be done in person. And this year we got back together in person. We have a big challenge because last year we collected 36 tons. If it comes to challenges, we are there ”, he explained.

One of the anecdotes that most moved him

A path full of great stories that tell us Carla pretty excited. “People give from the heart. Many times you will find that the one with the least is the one who gives the most”, to which he added one of the anecdotes that most affected him: “That day it was raining of strong and we were receiving food, when a man of about 70 years came with a little cane that he brought us a package of rice, that you could sense that this was the only way he could help and clearly he did it whole If that doesn’t move you, it keeps you going and makes you want to keep going ”.

Here are added more common stages such as when “grandparents come with their grandchildren and carrying jerseys of Athletic. People came to help with so much love Diego because of the way people do it because they support it Diego. This is a demonstration of belief in our project. It’s very good, very rewarding. “

One of the great motivations of the campaign was that “the hunger line is growing. I was in the dining rooms and surprisingly, when you see normal families suddenly homeless, they lost everything that they were people who were educated, had values, and suddenly they lost everything. It can happen to anyone. Red Cross They do it very well because they take care of the person, I saw it, I lived and that’s why I decided to do it to them too ”.

One of the details of this food collection is the cholos don’t just put the image. “Diego is very attentive. I’m the visible face, it’s a campaign of both. For him it was very rewarding. Every time I come back from the collections I come back very sensitive to all the stories that happened to us. After each collection we tell him the numbers, because boys are pretty numbers. A number is a way of measuring how people turn around. Then we have a commitment to people that depends on what we have, we make a contribution, and we are always on the brink of wanting to improve ourselves. We live it with great enthusiasm ”.

A project beyond the continuation of Simeone within Athletic. “It is a long-term project, it does not depend on if it is in Madrid or not. I’m thinking of the relationship with Atletico Madrid It is always with love for each other. I think we continue to depend on them whether we are or not. We can’t attribute this beautiful project to the sport’s career Diego”.

kilo to kilo

A food collection that will end this Sunday outside of Wanda Metropolitan in pre-game battles Seville, and that will be taken as per year kilogram to kilogram. “Kilo by kilo? I have never experienced that joke. It’s very witty, so I’ll take you. ”