Ambra Sabatini and Irma Testa alongside Laureus Italia to help young people

Ambra Sabatini and Irma Testa alongside Laureus Italia to help young people

To underline the work carried out in the field every day in the suburbs of the main Italian cities to support young people in difficulty thanks to sport (to date there are more than 3 thousand children involved in 20 different sporting activities), Laureus Sport for Good Italia Foundation launches a new campaignwhich is divided into 3 video clips starring Le Olympic champions Ambra Sabatini and Irma Testa.

Both competing at the next Paris 2024 Games, the two athletes share a past that demonstrates how sport can truly change people’s lives in a positive way and for this reason they best embody the values ​​promoted by the Laureus Italia Foundation. “It is an honor for me to be part of the Laureus family. What Laureus does with many children, someone did it with me and if today my life has changed, it is precisely thanks to that help: the help that the Laureus family gives to many other children and teenagers.” said Irma Testa on the stage of the Laureus Charity Night 2023. It is no coincidence that the three videos contain a call-to-action that urges people to make a concrete gesture in favor of young people in difficulty, joining forces together with Ambra Sabatini and Irma Testa . In fact, to support the work of the Laureus Italia Foundation in the area, simply make a donation by clicking on the laureus.it website

In the first clip that launches the campaign, in particular, Amber and Irma they run together and ideally fight alongside each other to affirm the values ​​that guide their sporting activity. Together they enter the gym of the “Sauro Errico Pascoli” comprehensive institute, in the Secondigliano neighborhood in Naples, dedicated to the memory of the boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler and inaugurated by the Laureus Foundation at the beginning of 2022, to ensure young people in the neighborhood have a safe place to practice sports . “Sport is beauty. Sport is useful and sport helps you. Sport makes you win. This is Laureus” the two champions proudly state. And speaking directly to those boys and girls who today live a difficult daily life, they add: “Now it’s their turn, their joy is off the streets, it’s in the gyms and facilities. Laureus knows this and helps sport.”

Ambra Sabatini, born in 2002, she is Paralympic Champion and gold medal at the World Paralympic Athletics Championships in Paris last year, where she also set the world record in the 100 meters in the T63 category, and at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She was named Laureus Ambassador during the Laureus Charity Night 2023 last September and immediately embodied the values ​​of the Foundation. “I could have stayed on the road, but it wasn’t like that. Sport gave me my life back, this is Laureus.” she talks about it in the new video clip.

Irma Testa, born in 1997, nicknamed the “Butterfly” of the ring for the gracefulness of her movements, she won the gold medal in the 57 kg category at the Women’s Boxing World Championships in India in 2023 and the first bronze in the history of Italian women’s boxing at the Tokyo 2020 Games. She was born and raised in Torre Annunziata, on the outskirts of Naples, in a difficult reality characterized by strong economic and social deprivation, where at the age of 12 he began throwing his first blows in the ring. Walking through the alleys where she grew up, in the clip she says: “It’s not easy growing up here, I could have stayed on these sidewalks, in the middle of the street”, but then entering the gym where you can breathe the values ​​of sport changed her mind. life because “Sport is life, this is Laureus, I am Laureus”.