An auction during the French qualifier for the Cigar Smoking World Champion (CSWC) has raised 6,600 US-Dollars last year in Paris. Yesterday, the cheque was handed over at General Cigar\u2019s factory in Santiago de Los Caballeros (Dominican Republic) in favor of the educational program De Manos a Manitas.<\/p>\n
The French competitor Philippe Fraysse has bid for the luxury hand crafted humidor by Pierre Marchal (Maison Tercecret), and another bidder got a Cuervo y Sobrinos watch from the 1882 line.<\/p>\n
The two lots raised the amount of 6.600 US$ for the charity \u201eDe Manos a Manitas\u201c. The educational program was implemented in 2015 by Scandinavian Tobacco Group Canada with the purpose of providing educational assistance to children of General Cigar Dominicana employees (the factory where the Macanudo brand, among others, is manufactured).<\/p>\n
More than 148 children from primary school are now benefitting from this program in the Dominican Republic, but also in Honduras and Nicaragua, where STG\u2019s other factories are located. \u201eChildren are the future of our developing country and this program is very important to help all of us believe in bright days\u201c said a grateful Yuri Guillen, production manager at General Cigar Dominicana\u2019s factory.<\/p>\n
Photo from left to right<\/em>: Virgilio De Pena, Cristian Aybar and Abel Cruz (General Cigar Dominicana), Stephan Brichau (STG), Griselda Checo (General Cigar Dominicana), Guillaume Tesson (CSWC\u2019s French organizer), Stijn Elbersen (STG), Yuri Guillen (General Cigar Dominicana) and some employees\u2019 children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An auction during the French qualifier for the Cigar Smoking World Champion (CSWC) has raised 6,600 US-Dollars last year in Paris. Yesterday, the cheque was handed over at General Cigar\u2019s factory in Santiago de Los Caballeros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":21855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,49,2808,2796],"tags":[1329,2921,4640,2358,4376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}