Serge Gnabry: A footballer, fashion star, chef extraordinaire, philanthropist and now the founder of a charity. The Bayern Munich star has recently announced the launch of said charity, which is centered around health care and ensuring the health of people around the globe. The charity already has its’ own website, which you can check out here. As captured by @iMiaSanMia, Gnabry had this to say about this initiative:
“We want to get involved in the health sector, this is a topic that has been on my mind for a long time. We have deliberately made it very broad, we want to help patients, especially children. And we want to support the people who work in this field. When you see how nurses give everything for others day after day, the work they do, I have enormous respect for that. And the problems are well known: the jobs are often underpaid, many positions are understaffed. I hope that we receive a lot of support and can do good in the long term.
Even when I was in London, at Arsenal, we visited children in the hospital at Christmas. I have now done the same in Munich. I saw children with leukaemia, with terminal cancer. The impressions have stayed with me for a long time, and the feedback I received from children and parents was very special. This feeling of being able to make the children happy… I thought it’s certainly not too much to ask of someone like me, who basically lacks nothing, to look after people who are not well. As professional footballers, we have the chance to give others happy moments if we just invest a little bit of time”
This is a brilliant initiative and one that demonstrates a genuine sense of compassion and care. Hopefully, this charity will bring as much good to the world as Gnabry hopes it will.
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