The footballers transforming their home towns
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Sadio Mané and Mo Salah have had a huge impact on the small towns and villages in Senegal and Egypt where they grew up.
We find out how local people have benefited from the money donated and hear about how this type of 'direct giving' is part of a wider trend making a big difference in the aid community.
Presenter: Isaac Fanin Producer: Hannah Bewley
(Image: Mane and Salah celebrating whilst playing for Liverpool. Credit: Getty)
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| 0:00.0 | They are heroes to millions. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, Salah! Oh, Salah! But it's out the way. |
| 0:12.0 | The best at what they do. |
| 0:15.0 | Mani scores. Stefan Deetman is the post and it's three-bill to Liverpool. And they are some of the most highly paid people on the planet. |
| 0:25.2 | But the life of a professional footballer in Europe's most prestigious leagues |
| 0:28.6 | can often be in stark contrast to the places they grew up. |
| 0:32.7 | What would things look like in the Greek if it weren't for Muhammad donations? |
| 0:36.8 | It would be just like any other village |
| 0:38.7 | in Egypt. We have so many villages that don't have access to such services. With astronomical |
| 0:47.3 | wages, many of them are donating large sums of money to their hometowns. But what kind of |
| 0:53.6 | impact does this have? And is this the best |
| 0:56.7 | way to give aid? Sadio has done a lot because he contributed in the development of the whole of |
| 1:01.7 | Senegal. What the government should do, Sadio has started doing. I'm Isaac Fanon and that's all coming up |
| 1:08.1 | on today's Business Daily. |
| 1:22.8 | Saudi Amano has won the Premier League, F.A. Cup and Champions League with his former team, Liverpool, |
| 1:27.7 | and he took the Senegalese national team to victory in the Africa Cup of Nations. |
| 1:31.9 | He now plays for buying Munich and his estimated monthly earnings are 10,000 times what they would be in his home village of Bamboli in Senegal. |
| 1:38.6 | So what would you do with that kind of money? |
| 1:41.2 | Sardio is giving it away and invested in a school, hospital, petrol station, |
| 1:46.0 | businesses and makes direct donations to families during Ramadan. Mamedi is in his early 20s and he's |
| 1:53.2 | one of those to benefit. He now works as an orange orchard which Marnay has invested in. |
| 2:01.6 | Before I worked in the orch outdoor, I was doing small jobs working with cement, |
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