On Saturday, November 24, the awards ceremony of the II Edition Satorres Social Commitment was held, in which the Clinic awarded prizes to different NGOs. More than 40 Non-Governmental Organizations applied for this second solidarity initiative of the clinic. This time the jury declared the winners of this call to the Asociación Compartimos Sonrisas de Manises and in second place, the Asociación Crecer en la Coma de Paterna.
Francisco Javier Satorres Grau, member of Top Doctors and Director of the Centro Avanzado de Odontología Satorres, thanked all the associations for their participation and explained at the gala the origin of this charitable initiative:
“Years ago I discovered my vocation for this profession. After more than 20 years exercising it and giving the highest quality in our services, we want to continue extending our hand helping even more to the populations that see us work every day: Paterna and Manises”.
Javier Satorres also emphasized that this grant is not something punctual, but the beginning of a collaboration with the participating organizations.
After dinner, the minutes of resolution of the qualifying jury were read, composed of:
- Paqui Periche Chinillach: Councilor for Equality, Transparency, Linguistic Promotion, Traditions, Culture and Fire of Paterna.
- Sonia Beas Pérez de Tudela Gormaz: Fallera Mayor of Manises 2018.
- Jose Manuel Mora: Deputy Mayor of Education, Youth and Sports of Paterna.
- Blanca Jorge Cano: Psychologist in her own psychology office. Representative and member of the board of ASCOMA, the Manises Merchants Association.
- Mª Angeles Salvador: Directive of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Paterna, President of Intercomparsas Paterna, Directive of the Brotherhood, Christ Bearer, councilwoman, but above all paternera.
The jury arranged the prizes as follows:
- First prize with a donation of € 2,000 for the Association Compartimos Sonrisas.
- Second prize with a donation of 500 € for the Association Crecer en la Coma.
The projects
Thanks to the donations, the winning Non-Governmental Organizations will be able to make their respective projects a reality.
- Compartimos Sonrisas, winner of the first prize, will use the donation for its project “Cognitive-intergenerational stimulation”. The main objective of the project is to provide cognitive and psychomotor stimulation for the elderly. This is achieved by bringing children and volunteers closer to the elderly in the residences to share experiences, memories and above all, smiles.
- Crecer en la Coma, will allocate the second prize of the II Edition Satorres Social Commitment to its project “Alondra”, a psychosocial intervention program for the empowerment, prevention of teenage pregnancy and emancipation of pregnant teenage women and young mothers at risk or exclusion in the neighborhood of La Coma.
This II Edition Satorres Social Commitment, is only the beginning of an initiative to which the Advanced Center of Dentistry Satorres will continue to give continuity to help more and more people.