Premier League Footballer Sends Donation To Help Rebuild Giza Church

August 18, 2022267 views0

Premier League Footballer Sends Donation To Help Rebuild Giza Church

2022-08-18T11:09:15+01:00

By Church News

The Egyptian footballer and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has donated three million Egyptian pounds ($156,664) to help rebuild the Abu Seifein Church in Giza.Social media channels in Egypt were full of messages of gratitude to the footballer beloved by millions.The donation was confirmed by prominent Egyptian sports reporter Ibrahim Abdel Gawad, who joined many others in thanking Salah in a Facebook post.These included renowned cardiologist Dr Gamal Shaban, whose post, which was shared by thousands, included a part addressed to business mogul Naguib Sawiris.Salah was in June ranked by the UK newspaper The Sunday Times as the eighth most charitable person in Britain. The player had in 2019 donated $3 million to Egypt’s National Cancer Institute after a terrorist attack that killed 20 and injured dozens.He gave 12 million Egyptian pounds worth of equipment to a prominent children’s cancer hospital in Egypt.Salah was also photographed in Liverpool in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic paying for some of his fans’ fuel.In 2019, the 30-year-old star gave the National Cancer Institute in Cairo £2.4 million after it was damaged by a car bomb.He has also assisted in building a hospital, school, youth centre and an ambulance unit in his home town as well as providing acres of land for a waste treatment plant.In 2021, Salah was voted the eighth most generous person in the UK, having given away nearly £2.5 million of his estimated £41 million wealth.At the international level, Salah represented Egypt at the youth level before making his senior debut in 2011.Following his performances at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was named CAF Most Promising African Talent of the Year.Since then, he finished as runner-up in the 2017 and 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and was the top scorer during CAF qualification as Egypt qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.Salah was named CAF African Footballer of the Year (2017 and 2018), BBC African Footballer of the Year (2017 and 2018) and was selected for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament, 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament and the CAF Team of the Year on several occasions.ALSO READ Ventriloquist Performs Rendition Of ‘Amazing Grace’