Toulouse: the second life of TFC and Stade jerseys in the operating room
Les Petits Bosses, a Toulouse charity, has teamed up with TFC and Stade Toulousain to transform their jerseys into bouldering blouses.
Ilona, 17, had stars in her eyes when Stade Toulousain player François Cros came to present her with a signed Stade Toulousain jersey.
This atypical jersey split in the back and tied with ties is transformed into a blouse for departure to the operating room at the Médipôle Garonne clinic.
The transformation of these solidarity jerseys
“We bring strength and comfort to hospitalized children,” says Laurent Mommeja, president of the association Les Petites Bosses. The latter is at the origin of this solidarity initiative, in collaboration with the Toulouse Football Club and the Stade Toulousain. The famous sports clubs gave everyone a hundred jerseys to transform their look and use. “It’s really great to be able to brighten up the passage to the children’s hospital”, rejoices François Cros, player of the Stadium and sponsor of the association Les Petites Bosses. The rugby player does not forget to suffer the working hands that made these blouses. These seamstresses from the disability support and services organization personalized around 30 jerseys a day. “It was a very meticulous job but we are very proud to have participated in this project”, underlines one of them.
New gowns offered to hospitalized children
After an official presentation, the gowns are hand-delivered to hospitalized children. It is a shy thank you because impressed that launches Ilona, 17 years old. The teenage modern pentathlon player is coming out of cruciate ligament surgery after a skiing injury. These new kind of swimsuits will be used by all the children who come to the clinic. “I hope that we allow children to forget the world of health for sport,” confides François Mommeja, the president of the association. Les Petites Bosses, which provide moral, material and financial support to hospitalized and disabled children, wish to renew this type of operation.