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The Chinese partners of Olympique Lyonnais, IDG Capital, an investment fund and major shareholder of OL Groupe and the Chengdu Football Association have donated 10,000 protective masks, in particular for social work, a- we learned on Thursday from OL Foundation.

“We received and distributed these masks to several beneficiaries in the Lyon region, such as the Salvation Army Foundation and the Alynea association, which manages a reception center for the homeless because it was necessary to equip their workers with protective masks. "Explained Maëlle Trarieux, general delegate of the Rhone club foundation.

Thanks to a generous gesture from @ IDGCapital, Chinese shareholder of Olympique Lyonnais, and of the Football Association of Chengdu, several thousand masks were given by OL for the emergency needs of the territory 👍https: // t.co/x9F4b9nrpV

- Olympique Lyonnais (@OL) April 9, 2020

15,000 ponchos offered

"We have also distributed masks to the Rhône Red Cross whose volunteers are in contact with homeless people who suffer from coronavirus without being hospitalized, to city doctors, liberal nurses or in nursing homes," she said. for follow-up.

This system completes the distribution of masks to non-hospital structures already carried out since the start of the crisis. In addition, 15,000 plastic ponchos, usually intended to protect the spectators in the front rows at the Groupama stadium from the rain, were also allocated to the same recipients to act as over-blouses at the suggestion of the group of supporters from the south turn, Lyon 1950 .

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