Santi Maratea did it again: he got the money necessary for Argentine athletes to travel to Ecuador

05/22/2021 2:19 PM

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 05/22/2021 2:19 PM

The

influencer

Santiago Maratea

managed to raise the money necessary for 35 Argentine athletes and their coaches to travel to the South American Athletics tournament, to be held in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

It was after the National High Performance Sports Entity (Enard) communicated that

it could not afford the transfer

.

Maratea negotiated the value of the charter flight with the

South American Jets company

and got a

discount of $ 60,000

compared to the price indicated by the Enard, according to the

influencer

on his social networks.

In this way, the

final cost of the flight will be 99 thousand dollars

, which will be paid with the close to 4 million pesos obtained through a collection that began on the social network Twiter.

The young man began the collection by asking each of his followers to contribute 22 pesos, which are more than 136 thousand on his Twitter account, and

in less than an hour he collected more than a million pesos

.

If you have 22 pesos you can use them to send 35 athletes to the South American from Ecuador next week pic.twitter.com/uJOyBLdJyO

- santumaratea (@ santumaratea1) May 22, 2021

With more than 1.4 million followers on Instagram, the

influencer

related in his stories on that social network

the minute by minute of the negotiation

with the company.

The charter was booked and later canceled at Enard's direction.

$ 2 million for Emma

Maratea achieved great popularity when in record time she raised $ 2 million so that Emmita, a baby from Chaco who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), could buy

one of the most expensive drugs in the world

and thus fight against the disease.

The 52nd South American Athletics Championship was scheduled for May 14, 15 and 16 in Buenos Aires, with an Argentine delegation close to one hundred people, with 81 athletes, but due to the advance of the second wave of coronavirus, the Government

canceled the locality

.

Finally, it was decided that Guayaquil would become the headquarters on May 29, 30 and 31, so the National Sports Secretariat asked ENARD to take charge of the charter payment.

The organism rejected that request because its historical policy is that the trips of the athletes are carried out

on scheduled flights

through travel agencies, and this was not going to be the exception.

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