“The Shirt 2010” Golf Tournament held at Marbella Golf and Country Club will help Bjørn Heidenstrøm in his epic journey in support of International refugees. Bjørn is cycling from Norway to South Africa, through at least 50 countries en route to the World Cup Finals in South Africa. He stopped in the Costa del Sol to present his project “The Shirt 2010” in cooperation with The Refugee Council (www.nrc.no)
Participants and sponsors of “The Shirt 2010” Golf Tournament held at http://www.marbellagolf.com on Friday 27th November 2009, helped to raise much needed funds for Bjørn to support him in his long journey to South Africa. The glorious sunshine contributed to a quality golf day and a wonderful buffet lunch prepared by the Marbella Golf and Country Club restaurant.
The T-shirt handover ceremony in aid of the project “The Shirt 2010” was opened by the Director of foreign branches of Unicaja, followed by the Director of Youth Department from Marbella Municipality (Marbella FC), Rensen Management, Blue Sky Super Car Hire, Ludmila Fowler, Tahitian Noni, Sanyres, Advent communications, and not to forget the smallest t-shirts from the children of the Del Sol Packaged Directors and biggest fans of Bjorn.
The Del Sol Packaged team in collaboration with Marbella municipality, Spanish and foreign businesses, created a platform that would help Bjørn to bring even more attention to his cause throughout the world with extensive coverage by local, national and international media; Antena 3, Talk Radio Europe, KustRadion, Svenska Magasinet, GH Productions, MK Espana, Linda Magazine, Tout Magazine all attended the event.
From the Costa del Sol, Bjorn then travels North to Barcelona to meet with FC Barcelona and then hitches a ride on a container ship to Italy. He then continues through Europe before entering Africa to visit the numerous refugee camps on the continent. You can follow Bjorn on his website http://www.theshirt2010.net.
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