On April 23 (6:30 p.m.), the event will bring together journalist and Queen Sofia Sports Award winner Paloma del Río and former Afghan wheelchair basketball player Latifa Sakhizadeh at Villarreal CF’s stadium.
Both will share the chain of solidarity from the sporting world that made it possible for several sportswomen and their families to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban regained power.
The cycle ‘Dialogues without borders’, promoted by the Rototom Sunsplash festival and its Cultural Association ExodusThe ‘Dialogues without Borders’ series, promoted by the Rototom Sunsplash festival and its cultural association Exodus, is doing double duty this April and continues to explore scenarios mimicking the theme addressed in each debate. If this month’s first meeting, on the defense of the oceans, took the public to the deck of a vintage fishing boat, the debate on Tuesday, April 23 (6:30 p.m.) will be held on the following Tuesday, April 23.about values in sports, will travel to a soccer stadium: the Villarreal CF’s Ceramica stadium.
The values of sport save lives’. is the title of the talk, moderated by the director of COPE Castelló Raul Pucholwho will spin the journalist’s yarn Paloma del RíoThe voice that has guided the transmission of gymnastics competitions for TVE and Queen Sofia Award at the National Sports Awards, and the former player of the Afghan wheelchair basketball team, Latifa Sakhizadeh.
Both are united, from different perspectives, by a story of solidarity linked to sport, which they will share with the public. Paloma del Río and war correspondent Antonio Pampliega, also recognized in the National Sports Awards for his involvement in the defense of women and assistance to immigrants, “managed, in dramatic moments after the recovery of Taliban power in Afghanistan, which condemned society to ostracism, to help athletes like Latifa Sakhizadeh to leave the country”, explained Exodus. “My life changed completely, like the lives of all Afghans, especially women,” Sakhizadeh recounts.
The objective of this cycle is “to capture those life experiences that are related to human rights and the values that promote them; and sport is an area that contributes to this; the story that Paloma del Río and Latifa Sakhizadeh will tell is a tangible example that sport, and the solidarity that moves it, saves lives,” says the organization and reaffirms the protagonists, ensuring that sport acted, in this case, as a necessary link to hold on to that lifeline. “The fact that they were athletes made it possible for Antonio and me to receive this request for help, and we were able to mobilize, weave a network of support and articulate their trip to Spain. Solidarity is the most precious value in sport, and one that we must defend and recover,” adds Del Río.
The two-and-a-half-year journey from that first call for help from Kabul by the former national basketball team player to the present day. The chain of solidarity, especially in sports, activated by Del Río and Pampliega to make possible the departure from Afghanistan of Sakhizadeh and another twenty people, including athletes and family members. His arrival in Spain. The present, and the future. All of this will be discussed at the next ‘Dialogues without Borders’ event.
The talk will be held on April 23 at 6.30 p.m. in the Sala Club 1923 of the Estadio de la Cerámica in Vila-real and has the collaboration of Villarreal CF, the City Council of Vila-real and the Foundation of the ‘Groguet’ Club.
Alliance with the ‘Submarine
This session of the ‘Dialogues without borders’ cycle is the first joint action of the collaboration agreement signed between the Submarine and the international reggae festival. Villarreal CF and Rototom Sunsplash are joining forces within the framework of Endavant Cultura, the Corporate Social Responsibility project through which the yellow entity supports the culture of the province, a goal shared by the ‘Dialogues without Borders’ initiative.
