Fernando Torres joins a charitable campaign for the fifth consecutive year ‘A Toy, An Illusion’, organized by ‘Radio Nacional of Spain’ and the Foundation ‘Grow up playing’. The forward from Atletico will be one of the main characters that will play the spot from the third week of November that TVE will offer to show the charitable initiative.

The red and white captain lent his image from the first steps of ‘A Toy, An Illusion’ and since then he has involved himself actively in the camping that has as the objective to send toys to zones such as Africa, Latin America and the near East.

Fernando Torres will cheer people up, in the spot, to participate in the campaign again, with the purchase of the charitable pen, and its messages will be interpolated with stories of kids that have received for the first time a toy.


A million of toys distributed since year 2000.

The campaign starts the preparation of the edition with the objective to get more children and to get more countries of Latin America, Near East and The Balkans, through different ONG’s that work in projects of corporation and attention to childhood.

‘A toy, an illusion’ develops since year 2000 and in these six years they sent around a million toys and they built a total of 800 movie library In the last edition, the campaign achieved a historical collection of around a million euros, and that allowed to sent 240.000 toys and 200 movie library to fourteen countries.

The seventh edition of the campaign develops between November 13th and January 5th and will try to consolidate the initiative action started in the last years and to help kids to grow with a toy. The campaign remembers that to play is an essential right for the kid and stands out its importance in the education and in the relations that could make with other children.


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