UK-born Ghanaian footballer, Danny Welbeck donates £10,000 to support Ghana’s COVID-19 fight
English player of Ghanaian descent Danny Welbeck has donated some relief items worth £10,000 to people of his mother’s hometown in Ghana. This is Watford’s player donation to support Ghana’s fight against the Coronavirus. Residents of Nkawiepanin in the Atwima Nwabiagya municipality of the Ashanti Region were the proud recipient’s Watford player’s kind gesture. Personal…
English player of Ghanaian descent Danny Welbeck has donated some relief items worth £10,000 to people of his mother’s hometown in Ghana.
This is Watford’s player donation to support Ghana’s fight against the Coronavirus.
Residents of Nkawiepanin in the Atwima Nwabiagya municipality of the Ashanti Region were the proud recipient’s Watford player’s kind gesture.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) was also donated to the doctors and nurses in Nkawie Government Hospital in the Ashanti region.
The donation was made in person by Welbeck’s aunt, Charlotte Adwoa Tumutuom, who spoke of the 29-year-old’s love for Ghana.
“Danny has been very concerned about how his people would survive these trying times,” Tumutuom told Ghanaian news website Pulse. “Though he has never lived here, he has a great affection for the people of Ghana, so he felt it prudent to offer some help in the very small way that he can to support the government’s efforts in these times.”
The England international who was born to Ghanaian parents in London, and last visited the West African country in 2017 to see his extended family and a school he founded in the Ashanti region.
Welbeck was eligible to play for the Black Stars before he made his England debut in a friendly fixture against Ghana at Wembley in 2011.
The former Manchester United and Arsenal forward has played 42 games for the Three Lions, scoring 16 goals.
Ghana has so far recorded 566 Coronavirus cases.
