Ex-Barça player Xavi Hernández donates his yacht to refugee charity
Ex-Barça player Xavi Hernández donates his yacht to refugee charity
FORMER Barça FC player Xavi Hernández has donated his private yacht to a refugee charity so it can either use it to rescue displaced families from the Mediterranean, or auction it off to raise funds.
The nine-metre-long, 2.6-metre-wide La Pelopina has a 325 horse-power engine, and is now in the hands of the organisation ProActiva Open Arms, which started its new mission a month ago on the 30-metre motorised yacht, the Astral, helping desperate migrants reach dry land.
The Astral was funded by a donation from an Italian mattress-shop owner based in Granada.
Since it was founded, ProActiva Open Arms has saved over 3,000 lives in the Mediterranean, mostly near the Libyan coast, where refugees attempted to make the dangerous open-water crossing.
