UBI Banca supports the San Patrignano community in the "Let's put your heart" initiative, implemented to raise funds for the WeFree project, which every year involves fifty thousand students throughout Italy in promoting healthy lifestyles and prevention of addictions, through moments of discussion in schools, theaters and within the Community itself, bringing them the story and direct testimonies of the guests of the Structure.
From 26th June to 2nd July, UBI Banca branches will give visibility to the initiative and will collect donations to support the project. Whoever makes a donation of at least 10 euros will receive a chilli pepper, to symbolize passion and zest for life, together with a recipe from one of the four starred chefs who have joined the project: Davide Oldani, Igles Corelli, Rosanna Marziale and Gualtiero Marchesi .
The tools made available by UBI Banca to make a donation to San Patrignano are:
· Commission-free bank transfer to the UBI Banca current account (IBAN IT18M0311124203000000000141);
· UBI PAY, the application that allows money to be sent via smartphone via Jiffy to the San Patrignano number (366.9639060).
Through this initiative, the Bank confirms its commitment as a reference partner for the Third Sector and the civil economy, a sector in which, with its UBI Community division, it supports non-profit organizations and religious institutions for the implementation of initiatives of high social value.
“The commitment of the San Patrignano Community, both in the field of addiction prevention and in the field of recovery paths, is of great importance”, declared Frederik Geertman, Deputy General Manager of UBI Banca. “UBI Banca on this occasion continues its support to the community also through the concrete adhesion, through the action of the branches, to a doubly important initiative. On the one hand it supports the work of San Patrignano and on the other it spreads a message of prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyles in its local areas, with a particular social impact because it is aimed above all at young people”.
"It is essential for us that an important organization like UBI Banca, so rooted in the local area and close to the people, chooses to support prevention, in support of young people throughout Italy - explains Antonio Tinelli, president of the San Patrignano community - WeFree is a prevention project that goes beyond addictions, which enhances the beautiful and the zest for life, the same foundations that we try to make our 1300 young people live, even more so in a historical moment in which the use of substances is always more normalized and whose danger is increasingly minimized. An indispensable aid to be able to continue to meet so many students year after year".
