At the Z Event 2019, in Montpellier -

N. Bonzom / Maxele Presse

  • This weekend, Z Event streamers raised 5.7 million euros.

  • The NGO Amnesty International France benefited from this charity marathon.

  • For the organization, these donations correspond to almost a quarter of the annual budget.

One would have thought that with the ambient blues linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, the harvest would be less fruitful.

Not at all.

This weekend, Z Event streamers raised over € 5.7 million.

This charity marathon, created in Montpellier (Hérault) in 2017, has never enabled so many donations to be collected.

“It was amazing, as always!

Zerator blurted out on the night from Sunday to Monday.

As in the last two editions, the video game community received congratulations from Emmanuel Macron.

“You can be proud!

(…) Proud to have shown that by being united and in solidarity we can accomplish great things, ”wrote the President of the Republic on Twitter.

In four editions, the Z Event has thus raised more than 10 million euros for associations.

This year, Amnesty International France was the lucky winner.

What will this big check be used for? 

20 Minutes

asked Nicolas Trombert, director of development for the NGO.

# ZEVENT2020, you can be proud!

Proud to have mobilized more than 5.7 million euros (a record!) To uphold human rights with Amnesty.

Proud to have shown that by being united and united we can accomplish great things.

This unit, let's feed it!

https://t.co/GuGHzlAUAy

- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) October 18, 2020

More than 5.7 million euros… Did you expect it?

We did not expect it, and we are really very, very, very pleasantly surprised.

The whole team is very happy.

And very grateful to the organizers of the Z Event, especially Zerator and Dach.

This streaming community is a little-known world, they are not on the big media, but on Twitch, which is still a fairly young platform.

But this incredible donation campaign proves, once again, that what we thought was invisible and marginal is actually very, very important.

There were [Sunday evening] more than 600,000 simultaneous viewers in front of the Z Event lives.

This marathon undoubtedly made it possible to sensitize the youngest to your action?

Yes, and that's what makes you doubly happy.

We were able to talk, throughout the weekend, about Amnesty International, our struggles, the values ​​that we try to defend every day, with a younger audience, who perhaps know our name, but who does not necessarily know what we are doing.

Zerator, for example, interviewed Cécile Coudriou, the president of our association, for more than an hour and a half.

She was able to answer all the questions, and explain and clarify what we are doing and why it is important to mobilize in favor of human rights in the world.

More than 5.7 million euros, what does this represent of Amnesty's total budget?

We have a budget of around 26 million euros, so that's almost a quarter of our total budget.

Collected in the space of a weekend!

This means that we will be able to organize even more actions, to defend the rights of people who are imprisoned for their opinion, freedom of expression, civilian populations facing conflicts in the world ... And like Amnesty n he is financed only thanks to the generosity of the public, and that we do not take subsidies, in order to keep our independence vis-à-vis the States, the more we have donations, the more we can act.

What will these donations be used for, what are the emergencies of the moment?

We are mobilized in the defense of people who fight for rights.

In Saudi Arabia, for example, Saudi women have mobilized to have the right to drive.

These people are now in prison, even though the law may have been changed.

We call on the whole world, and in particular Emmanuel Macron, who will travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, next month, for the G20.

We call on the President of the Republic, like all other leaders, to put pressure on these Saudi women.

But other campaigns are underway.

We are also fighting to defend the populations who are victims of armed conflicts, especially in Yemen, where civilians are targeted.

We are leading a global campaign to regulate the arms trade.

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