Man Utd star Andre Onana scoops award for incredible African charity work

Manchester United prima Andre Onana has clinched the FIFPRO Player Impact Award for his unthinkable charity enactment successful Africa.

The Cameroon international’s Andre Onana Foundation has helped to supply escaped healthcare and surgeries crossed the African continent.

Over 1,200 surgeries person been performed by aesculapian professionals moving with the Andre Onana Foundation implicit the past 3 years.

FIFPRO, the planetary national for nonrecreational footballers, has donated $10,000 (£7,900) to Onana’s foundation aft helium won the Player Impact Award and the goalkeeper has vowed to proceed with his singular humanitarian work.

‘I privation to convey FIFPRO and the Cameroonian subordinate national Synafoc; this large donation is precise welcome,’ Onana said.

‘Our squad already person plans successful spot to bash immoderate bully things for the kids, hopefully successful practice with UNICEF.

‘As for the aboriginal of the Andre Onana Foundation, we person a batch of things ahead. We’re successful speech with the United Nations to bash a collaboration and our main precedence going guardant is to interaction arsenic galore radical arsenic we tin successful the world.’

Onana, 28, is the 2nd United subordinate to scoop the grant successful caller years aft Marcus Rashford won it successful 2020 for his foundation enactment to assistance disadvantaged schoolhouse children successful the United Kingdom.

Onana’s foundation primitively focused connected helping unsighted children successful Cameroon but the Foundation has since expanded to connection enactment to different property groups and further countries successful Sub-Saharan Africa.

‘When I passed done Barcelona, Amsterdam and Milan connected my mode to Manchester United, I had radical who helped maine connected that journey,’ Onana added.

‘When I was down, they gave maine a manus truthful that I could basal up. I’ve ne'er forgotten the assistance I received. Because of the radical successful the past who supported me, I consciousness I person a work to springiness backmost and assistance others.

‘When I started the Andre Onana Foundation, the thought was to assistance unsighted children successful Cameroon. We received a batch of enactment and it’s since grown to go an NGO that provides escaped aesculapian attraction and surgeries to children and adults from underprivileged communities.

‘We bring doctors and surgeons, mostly from Spain, to execute the procedures successful Africa. In July this year, we had our 4th surgical run wherever a delegation of Spanish wellness professionals – from nurses to paediatric surgeons – helped implicit 350 radical successful Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital.’

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