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- Endesa awarded 6,000 euros to the "Basketball is Life" project, which won the popular vote over four other stories about social transformation with basketball playing the leading role.
- The five projects that reached to final of the X edition of Historias Basketball Lover shared a total of 13,000 euros.
The "Basketball is Life" initiative was proclaimed the winner of this edition of Historias Basketball Lover, a project led by Endesa with the support of the ACB (Spanish Basketball Association) and that led to 250 projects that showed us how basketball can activate social energy for positive change. The project presented by Alberto Béjar in Zaragoza to remodel and redecorate the children's oncology corridor at the Miguel Servet Children's Maternal Hospital received the most popular support of the five ideas that reached the final stage of voting. Thanks to Alberto's efforts, a place that used to have a cold atmosphere will now be a full of basketball, where the sport will accompany the children and their families. You can watch a presentation video of the project here.
Endesa awarded Basketball is Life with 6,000 euros to help undertake the project. The other four Stories also gained financial support to promote basketball as an engine for social and environmental change. The final order, and therefore the prizes, depended on the vote, which totalled 16,500 votes.
Academia 675 (Nerja, Malaga) and the dream of their own adapted sports facilities received 3,000 euros, thanks to coming second. In third place, La Vall d’Uixó Bàsquet (Castellón) received 2,000 euros to continue improving the old lorry workshop that is now their sports pavilion. Finally, in fourth and fifth place respectively, the circular and sustainable economy of Ecoballution (Corme, Coruña) and the colours and talent of Jump the Line (Vitoria) won 1,000 euros each to continue their dreams.
In 2021 Endesa is celebrating 10 years as official sponsor of the Endesa League. Endesa also sponsors the Spanish Basketball Federation, the Spanish teams in the EuroLeague and EuroCup and is a participating sponsor in the NBA, reaffirming its commitment to and support for all basketball with a view to change and social progress.