Another milestone achieved by Europe's greatest club, after successes with Unicef and UNESCO.


History was made today as FC Barcelona and ACNUR signed a collaboration agreement in Geneva today for a three-year period. The first refugee action programmes involving Barça will be applied in Rwanda, Nepal and Ecuador. The agreement will be in place, in principle, for three years, and the first 12 months will be focused on Rwanda, Nepal and Ecuador, three countries that host thousands of refugees from other territories. The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, and the High Commissioner of UNHCR/ACNUR, António Guterres, signed an agreement at midday today by which the football club will be adapting some of the Foundation’s programmes to different refugee camps in different parts of the world. The agreement was signed at the UNHCR/ACNUR headquarters in Geneva. According to Joan Laporta, who spoke after the signing, the Barca president said that:

This is further evidence of Barça’s commitments. This is our next big challenge. We are ready to score lots of goals.
Yet again, we are sending a message to the world, but as always, it is not just a message. It is also about actions.

In response, the ACNUR high commissioner, António Guterres thanked FC Barcelona and was clearly happy with the resolve and philosophy of the Catalan clubside. Guterres outlined the importance of the agreement when he said:

We believe Barça will open a lot of doors for us in order to make society understand about the plight of refugees. FC Barcelona and its Foundation have a high capacity for communication. Associating sport with education is a formidable thing.

Holiday season has it's great moments as the Barca stars entertain their crowd in far away Argentina.


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Ronaldinho And Messi Thrill Argentine Fans.

Barca´s official website announced that UNICEF and FC Barcelona will publicly announce their alliance to co-operate next Thursday.


Barça´s motto to be "More than a club" will be confirmed by this new and important project and will give a new global hope for vulnerable children. The presentation will be made at the United Nations central office in New York on the 7th September at 17:00 local time (23:00 GMT +2) under de guidance of the executive director of UNICEF, Margaret Venemen and president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta.


With this alliance, FC Barcelona will give financial support to projects around the globe. In particular, those which help to protect children where there are humanitarian crises and those where AIDS is on the increase.

FC Barcelona has recently renewd many of their computer systems in its facilities and has donated the old equipment to charity organisations Conductors Solidaris de Catalunya and Catratxhos.


Conductors Solidaris de Catalunya is a charity organisation that organises transports to conflict areas and the third world countries. The charity is formed by drivers, mechanics, logistics and volunteers that take part in global projects organised in collaboration with other charities, institutions and organisations involved in the distribution of material and making sure that they are handed over to the right end users. On April 24, the 6th Albania-Kosovo Convoy 2006 sets off from Barcelona, taking 60 tons of clothing, school, computer and health materials. The expedition is made up of eight people and a convoy of two trucks, a logistics vehicle and a mobile ICU ambulance that will be donated to Tirana City Council.


Catratxhos is a non-profit organisation that is involved in co-operative trips to Honduras and works in collaboration with the ACOES Honduras association, in order to improve the educational conditions for the children in that country. They often arrange for containers to be sent to Honduras with clothing, school, computer and health materials that are donated to schools in marginal colonies and rural areas.