We Kick Corona
We Kick Corona (#wekickcorona) is a donation campaign that arose from an initiative by professional footballers Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich in the wake of the Corona crisis .
organization
In order to support social and charitable projects with donations during the crisis surrounding the Corona situation , Goretzka and Kimmich announced the campaign with a joint donation of one million euros on March 20, 2020 in a press release. As a result, other professional athletes and well-known personalities joined the initiative and called for further donations.
“Social life, the common togetherness is severely restricted. At the same time, charitable associations and social institutions, medical staff and all system-relevant institutions that maintain the supply chain are doing a great job all over Germany - far beyond their personal and economic capacity limits. "
You can see which projects the donations are going to online. According to information on the official website, more than 5 million euros have been raised by over 3700 donors (as of June 2020).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement on the Goretzkas Twitter profile , twitter.com, accessed on May 31, 2020
- ↑ Goretzka and Kimmich start the “We kick Corona” initiative , welt.de, accessed on May 31, 2020
- ↑ Previously supported , wekickcorona.com, accessed May 31, 2020