Ángel y María: two cover fighters in the Portal de la Marina magazine
The Portal de la Marina Shopping Center has dedicated the cover of the Christmas edition of Shops, his shopping magazine, two fighters from the Marina Alta. This is Ángel Arcos and María Ferrer, two people who present two stories full of effort and improvement.
Ángel Arcos, natural de Gandía y residente en Dénia, es enfermo de Esclerosis Lateral Amiotrófica, comúnmente conocida como ELA. Se trata de una enfermedad degenerativa que, sin embargo, no ha detenido a un deportista como él. Apenas meses después del diagnóstico decidió llevar a cabo su mayor reto: recorrer 1300 km a pie y bicicleta, desde Gandía a Santiago de Compostela. Su objetivo, además del deportivo, era visibilizar esta enfermedad considerada como «rara» y recaudar fondos para diversas asociaciones. Salió el 15 de septiembre y el pasado 28 de octubre logró terminar su recorrido de manera exitosa.
Xàbia activist María Ferrer, meanwhile, was diagnosed with breast cancer at 42 years. This motivated her to lead a fight, not only against her own cancer, but against those that were not yet detected. Last July 200.000 collected signatures that were worth for the Consell to study the possibility of advancing mammograms to 45 women with a family history. Thanks to this measure, the risk of not being detected with the necessary time for its optimal treatment will be reduced.
The director of Portal de la Marina, Carlos Fita, has stated that «Magazine es una revista de moda. Y en las portadas de este tipo de publicaciones siempre hay modelos. En la nuestra también, hay dos modelos a seguir, dos referentes y dos personas que han puesto de moda la solidaridad, la valentía y las ganas de vivir. Por eso se merecen esta y todas las portadas del mundo».
But the commitment of the commercial complex goes further: they have made two economic contributions for the investigation of the two diseases to the organizations that have chosen the two protagonists.
The magazine can be obtained for free in the shopping center as well as in the associated stores.