Le  Portugal  often inspires us with his always very well organized way of developing padel. A few months ago, Padel Investigation told you about the program "Padel Escolar”, to allow children to access padel. This week, representatives of the federation went to the African island of  Principle  to donate boxes of material collected in Portugal.

80 boxes for São Tomé and Príncipe

Located not far from the coast of Gabon (216 km), the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, is one of the smallest countries in Africa. A former colony of Portugal, Principe gained its independence in 1975, but remains linked by language to the land of Carnations.principle map africa

Throughout Portugal, the padel federation has organised numerous collections of t-shirts and padel equipment, in order to redistribute them in this small country of 211 inhabitants.

All this equipment filled 80 crates. Well loaded, a Portuguese delegation made the trip to meet the inhabitants and thus conclude this collection.

A social action

“We wanted to do a social action for the youth of São Tomé and PríncipeThey don't have the luck that we have in Portugal, and we wanted to give these young people access to padel.”, explains Luis Centeno Fragoso, vice-president of the Portuguese Padel Federation.

The Portuguese delegation took some photos and videos of the meeting to immortalize the moment. We invite you to watch this video.

From his names, we can guess his Spanish and Italian origins. Lorenzo is a multilingual passionate about sports: journalism by vocation and events by worship are his two legs. He is the international gentleman of Padel Magazine. You will often see him at various international competitions, but also at major French events. @eyeofpadel on Instagram to see his best padel photos!

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