Children and adults from the City of San Juan de Dios in Alcalá de Guadaíra have enjoyed this morning the visit of the president of the Real Betis Balompié Foundation, Rafael Gordillo, who was accompanied by the patron of the organization, Carmen Guerrero, carrying gifts with the emblem of the Betis club, which delighted the fans who received this first visit with great excitement.
The Superior Brother of the San Juan de Dios community in Seville, Guillermo García; and the manager of the center, Federico Gil, guided this Betis legend through the facilities, visiting the Special Employment Center La Paz, the industrial laundry that San Juan de Dios has where 50 people with intellectual disabilities work to receive and make new the linens from all the centers of the Hospital Order in Andalusia. In this way, tons and tons of clothes are washed daily, contributing to the quality and warmth with which the San Juan de Dios centers attend to their patients and users. Emotional scenes were experienced there, as having a football reference like Gordillo so close was a great joy for many of the adults who work there and their parents.
The users of the Day Care Unit and the residence then welcomed the members of the foundation, who responded to the gifts with other gifts, in this case, paintings made by themselves showing the Real Betis emblem alongside the blue pomegranate, a historic and international symbol of the Order of San Juan de Dios.
The visit concluded in the gallery of the Special Education School of the City of San Juan de Dios, where a large group of students awaited, eagerly, the foundation’s president. This facility witnessed very special moments, both in the gift-giving and in the conversations that the students were able to have with Gordillo, to whom they entrusted the request to return soon with the first team players, of whom they are huge fans.
A city dedicated to disability care
The City of San Juan de Dios in Alcalá de Guadaíra is a center that serves over 300 people between the ages of 3 and 65 with functional diversity daily through various resources. One of them is the Special Education School, with 200 students; another is the day care unit, with 40 users; and the residence, which has 80 places for adults.
Additionally, in the same complex, there is the Special Employment Center (CEE) La Paz, an industrial laundry where 50 people with disabilities work. Through this inclusive employment resource, the cleaning and disinfection of linens from the hospitals of San Juan de Dios in Andalusia are carried out, extracting tons of hospital clothing monthly.
The San Juan de Dios Early Childhood Care Center has recently been inaugurated on Duquesa de Talavera Street, another resource that allows for personalized care for children between 0 and 6 years with developmental difficulties and psycho-pedagogical attention for children over 6 years old thanks to a multidisciplinary team of professionals.
