{:en}PRESS RELEASE (10/26/2017)
Sunday, October 29, a Loano, the appointment with the “Day in Pink: 5th birthday of the Unicef Piglet”, organized by the’A.D. Basketball Loano, under the auspices of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and the FIP Regional Committee.
The Women's Minibasket Tournament, scheduled to begin at the 9 a.m., in the E. Garassini Sports Hall will involve the women's minibasketball centers of Ventimiglia, Diano Marina, Alassio, Albenga, Borghetto Santo Spirito, Pietra Ligure, Amatori Savona, Cogoleto, Castelnuovo Scrivia and obviously the loanesi hosts.
It will be a day of sports and solidarity. At the end of the games, to emphasize the charitable purpose of the event, each participant will pay a symbolic participation fee, consisting of a one-euro coin, into the piggy bank placed in the center of the parquet floor. The proceeds will be donated to UNICEF.
La Piglet is the symbol of the’UNICEF and the program to combat child mortality called “Accelerated Strategy for Child Survival and Development.” Rag dolls are handmade with imagination and creativity by grandparents, parents and children, at home, at school, at associations and senior centers all over Italy. With a minimum donation of €20 everyone can adopt a Pigotta and support UNICEF and its life-saving programs in Central and West Africa.
It is the fifth year that the’A.D. Basketball Loano organizes this event, which was created to celebrate the team's mascot, a larger-than-standard-size Pigotta created by the precious hands of the ladies of the UNITRE University of the Third Age of Loano, and dressed in the colors, pink and black, of the club.
As of today, the kermesse is fully included in the circuit of pink events that the FIP Minibasket section promotes nationwide.
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