Bukayo Saka wins Socrates Award for sponsoring kids’s surgical procedures in Nigeria

Bukayo Saka has been named the winner of the Socrates Award
on the 2026 Ballon d’Or ceremony.

 

The English footballer of Nigerian heritage received the prize,
which rewards gamers for his or her charity work outdoors the game.

Saka was offered with the award by Burna Boy on the gala
on Monday on the Palladium Theatre in London, UK.

The Arsenal winger received for his partnership with Big Shoe, a
charity organisation, which funded surgical procedures for kids in Nigeria and different
African nations.

In 2022, Saka collaborated with Big Shoe and sponsored
“life-changing surgeries” for 120 kids in Kano.

A yr later, the 25-year-old additionally donated for surgical procedures for
one other 100 kids in Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

At the rostrum after successful the prize, Saka learn a letter
from a beneficiary of the charity initiative who had undergone profitable eye
surgical procedure.

The Arsenal winger added that he hopes the challenge will
proceed to assist underprivileged kids from creating nations.

“I work rather a lot with my household and the charity referred to as BigShoe.
We attempt to do our greatest to assist kids who don’t have the identical alternatives or
capabilities we have now,” he mentioned.

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