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The FIFA announced with trumpets a fund of 50 million dollarsjust to show that she's not that bad. In partnership with Qatar – contested host of the 2022 World Cup – as well as with the WHO, the WTO and the UNHCR (but without SDM or PNL), this jackpot aims to support refugees, improve health and education, and even chase away extreme heat, according to Devdiscourse.
Gianni, this benefactor
Innocent like a child, Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, presented this fund as a major step forward: 50 million, or 1% of commercial revenue from the 2022 World Cup (ten years of Gianni's salary), dedicated to humanitarian causes. Finally one time when “ the 1% » work in favor of humanity. But given the billions generated by the event, it's hard not to find the effort a little… symbolic.
Among the projects, FIFA is committed to supporting Beat the Heata WHO program to protect vulnerable populations from heat waves. A headline that hits, especially when Amnesty International recalls that six workers died after working for hours, beaten down by the sun and 40 degrees in Qatar. The fund also promises to strengthen refugees' access to essential services, women's access to digital entrepreneurship and the Qatari training centerAspire Academy of Qatar in order to detect and train young football talents in disadvantaged regions.
This 50 million fund is presented as the world begins to scrutinize Saudi Arabia, candidate for 2034, and which seems to follow the path of Qatar on the question of workers' rights.
“The management of goalkeepers under QSI is grotesque”
