JAKARTA - Marc Marquez has been officially appointed as a vision ambassador. The Repsol Honda racer will assist a charity project titled Learn for Sight in Haiti.
Quoted from Speedweek, as a vision ambassador, Marquez will later cooperate with a clinic from Barcelona that focuses on helping cure visual impairments.
Marquez as an ambassador has a strong reason. The racer nicknamed The Baby Alien had experience as a person with visual impairment.
Marquez has a diplopia disease or double vision which made him take a break from racing. Luckily, now he continues to improve after undergoing two operations.
From his experience, Marquez hopes that he can contribute by helping the poor of Haiti to recover. He wanted what he had felt when he received the help of the medical team to cure diplopia to be felt by Haitians.
"When I suffer from diplopia, I'm not only difficult to compete, but also not independent because I can't go around with cars. I rely on other people and I can't read with both eyes open," Marquez was quoted as saying by Speedweek, Thursday, December 22.
"The injury to the upper arm hurts, but sometimes you can forget it. But when you have multiple vision, you can't forget it all day long, unless when you sleep," he continued.
"It's a very good project, I feel it. You help in a country that needs help. With help like this you can save your family," Marquez said.
Not only was it asked as an ambassador who would actively campaign for the health of sight, but sources also said that Marquez went directly to assist financially by becoming a donor.
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