The University and Iberia sign an agreement agreement to promote research and facilitate the treatment of children with cancer.
The airline will donate 60,000 euros to transport sick children coming for treatment from outside Spain.
PhotoManuelCastells/First, Álvaro Balibrea, General Manager of the University of Navarra and Beatriz Guillén, Iberia's Global Sales Director. Behind, from left to right: Pablo Riveros, Deputy Director of the University's Purchansing Service ; Irantzu Urzelai, account manager of Iberia and Bristish Airways, Chris Valenzuela, manager of development International of Cima, Pilar Lorenzo, director of Niños contra el Cáncer and Iñigo Goenaga, director of development corporate at Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
24 | 05 | 2024
Iberia and the University of Navarra have signed an agreement agreement to promote research against cancer and facilitate the treatment of sick children from outside Spain. As a result of this partnership, the airline will donate 60,000 euros to the institution, which will be used mainly to finance the travel of these children and their families to Spain to receive treatment at the University of Navarra. Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
One of the first beneficiaries of this agreement has been Marlon Dariel, a 7-year-old boy who traveled from Ecuador to Pamplona to be treated for Hyper-IgM syndrome, a rare congenital primary immunodeficiency. He was treated at the Cancer Center 's Pediatric Cancer Center area Clínica Universidad de Navarra and received a bone marrow transplant with which he has managed to overcome his disease. He has returned home on flight IB6461 to Guayaquil with his parents and a huge personalized cake that was given to him in the Velázquez Premium Lounge of Iberia.
Marlon Dariel's story is an example of the children treated at the Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra when their home countries cannot offer them adequate treatment to cure their disease.
At the signature of agreement, which took place recently in Pamplona, the University's General Manager , Álvaro Balibrea, and Beatriz Guillén, Iberia's Global Sales Director, participated.
The General Manager of the University of Navarra, Álvaro Balibrea, expressed his satisfaction for the signature of the agreement and valued the partnership between business and the university with the goal to promote the research and make possible the treatment of minors from other countries. "Part of the mission statement of the University of Navarra is to transfer science and knowledge to the service of society, which is precisely one of the objectives that is sought with the signature of this partnership, which involves the Cima and the Clínica Universidad de Navarra".
"At Iberia we believe that there is a new way to fly from purpose," said Beatriz Guillén. Iberia's Director of Global Sales assured that this agreement "is the best example of our social impact strategy and responds to our purposewhich is 'generating prosperity by connecting people with the world'".
