In Spain, AS Monaco footballer Keita Baldé is mobilizing on the social front. While the country has been severely affected by the coronavirus epidemic, the dual Franco-Senegalese attacker struggles to find housing for migrants from Senegal who come to lend a hand to farmers in the Catalan hinterland, in lack of manpower.
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All day long, these migrants pick fruit for 6.50 euros an hour, but in the evening, sleep in the street. Faced with inaction from the authorities, Keita Baldé, born in the region, set himself the goal of finding them a home, and has just obtained a first success. "I'm here to find solutions to help these people. And thank God, we just found a first building to house 90 workers," said the footballer, who recalls that in total, 200 workers need of accommodation. And to conclude: "No one in the world deserves this indifference and this difficulty in living."
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Player will pay for footballers' meals
A second building is about to be rented until September. And the football player trained at FC Barcelona will also pay for all workers' meals. For their part, the associations denounce the racism of hoteliers. Keita Baldé reminds him that skin color should not be a problem.