RAC1 and Torrons Vicens close this year's solidarity nougat campaign with a record figure: 318,453 euros raised. It is the largest amount that has been achieved since the beginning of the project which, since 2015, has already collected 2,105,000 euros. The money from this 2023 edition will be allocated entirely to the Brain Project of the Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona, which, within the UNICAS initiative, is dedicated to the research and treatment of rare childhood diseases.
The announcement of the collection and the delivery of the check corresponding to this year's collection was made this Tuesday, February 20, inside the world on RAC1, with Jordi Basté, who acted as master of ceremonies, with the owner of Torrons Vicens, Ángel Velasco; the managing director of RAC1, Eulàlia Carbonell, and the deputy manager and medical director of Sant Joan de Déu, doctor Miquel Pons.
Pons has assured that the Turró Solidari campaign is of great help because "it is not easy to find continuous sources of financing such as that of RAC1 and Torrons Vicens that help promote programs that provide responses to diseases as complex as minority ones.
For his part, the owner of Torrons Vicens, Àngel Velasco, has announced that, for next year, they would like to reach an even more ambitious figure: 2,500,000 euros.
For the first time, this 2023 edition has exceeded 300,000 euros raised with the sale of the three solidarity nougats from RAC1 and Torrons Vicens. In this way, the figure reached in 2022 exceeds 30,000 euros.
The proceeds from this edition will go, once again, to the research and treatment of rare childhood diseases, which affect more than 400,000 children in Catalonia, and in 80% of cases involve neurological problems or neuropsychiatric disorders.
Thanks to the 2022 collection, the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital has begun to finance a project for the creation of a state-of-the-art brain tissue culture facility. This project will investigate fundamental aspects of the alterations in brain development that cause many neurological and psychiatric disorders and for which, in many cases, there are either no treatments or very few.
Throughout the nine editions of the solidarity action promoted by RAC1 and Torrons Vicens, the more than two million euros raised have represented an important boost in research, with promising results.
