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Empty original: Solidarity pedaling in Tibet and Nepal
PHOTO: Participants in the expedition with Rosa Fernández and the Fluor delegate in Asturias. :: Pablo
Oviedo, 27 jul (EFE).- La Montañera Rosa Fernández and a team of eighteen Asturian mountain, capital of Tibet, and the Nepalese city of Katmandú, dentro del proyecto "Pedaladas solidarias" To finance the sports practice of disabled children in Asturias.
The challenge is sponsored to the Fluor Multinational Company, que recompensa el esfuerzo de los ciclistas con una aportación económica a la escuela deportiva de baloncesto en silla de ruedas que la asociación de discapacitados físicos "Cosa Nuesa" founded a year ago in Avilés, as its president explained today, Aladino Pandiella.
"Es una ayuda tremenda porque uno de los problemas del deporte adaptado es lo difícil que es encontrar financiación, Each chair for the kids costs between 2.500 and 2.800 euros y es difícil encontrar dinero para el material en estos tiempos que corren", He added.
The money that the expedition gets with the route route every day will go to the purchase of material for the association, that calculates that it will be 30 cents per kilometer that travel each participant.
Jose Andrés Blanco Sánchez, presidente del Club Deportivo al que pertenece la Asociación "Cosa Nuesa", He has performed twice the Lhasa-Katmandú journey, one of them in 2002 also accompanied by Rosa Fernández.
"Es una expedición bastante dura porque en los mil kilómetros de recorrido se pasan cotas de 4.500 meters and a couple of them exceed 5.000, por lo que el mal de altura es un problema importante".
Although it is a difficult journey, expects all adventurers to complete the tour, And he recalled that the important thing is that they all arrive together at the goal.
"El objetivo es conseguir las tres sillas de ruedas para la escuela", He has insisted.
El proyecto "Pedaladas Solidarias" He was born with the initiative of Rosa Fernández to perform once again the Lhasa-Katmandú route for which he contacted the Fluor company.
"Rosa Fernández quería asociar todo el proyecto con algo que fuera referente al deporte y a los niños, y cuando nos enteramos del proyecto de Cosa Nuesa nos dimos cuenta de que era lo que esperábamos", Explain the fluor, Javier Peláez, who explained that, "en vez de entregar un cheque", The collection that the mountaineers get with each kilometer will be destined to buy chairs specially adapted for the thirteen children who are currently part of the Sports School of our Aviles.efe
