Real Betis players’ shirts turn into dressing gowns for hospitalised children

Real Betis players’ shirts turn into dressing gowns for hospitalised children

Real Betis Balompié Foundation is once again launching the ‘Las Batas más fuertes’ initiative, which consists of reusing the players’ shirts to make pyjamas for children in hospital.

Real Betis Balompié and the Real Betis Balompié Foundation have delivered 53 dressing gowns to four hospitals in Seville: Hospital Universitario Virgen de Valme, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Hospital Viamed Santa Ángela de la Cruz and Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío.

The dressing gowns – 53 in total – are made from Real Betis Balompié shirts from previous seasons, adapted by the Sevillian sewing workshop Elaborarte so that they can serve the children. This is the third season in which the Real Betis Foundation has participated in this initiative. The Batas Más Fuertes campaign was launched two years ago by the Panenka Magazine and Real Betis wanted to continue with this project that makes the children so happy. With these t-shirts with the Real Betis crest, these children will feel stronger during their stay in hospital.

Rafael Gordillo, president of the Real Betis Foundation, was in charge of handing over the shirts at the Macarena Hospital and, accompanied by Alba, the ‘star signing’ of the Real Betis club, he did the same at the Virgen de Valme University Hospital, where they also visited the children’s ward of the centre.

In the coming weeks, the Green and Whites will send these gowns to the Virgen del Rocío and the Hospital Viamed Santa Ángela de la Cruz to make it easier for the children in these centres to go to the hospital.

The work of the Foundation in its Health Programme

Las Batas Más Fuertes is a project that is framed within one of the main foundational objectives of the green and white entity since its birth: the improvement of opportunities and quality of life of vulnerable populations, especially for children and adolescents in processes of illness.

Among the actions carried out in this sense we find the project ‘El Fichaje Estrella’, which tries to give hope to children who are going through a process of illness; the recent donation that has made possible the installation of a multisensory room in the Centro de Estimulación Cristo del Buen Fin, the visit to the children’s hospitals of Seville every Christmas or the recent visit with the Copa del Rey to the Children’s Oncology ward of the Hospital Virgen del Rocío in Seville.