Cairo: Last year, Mohammad Salah launched a charitable association in his home village in Egypt’s Nile Delta. The association, based in the village of Nagrig, offers financial support for the poor and the needy estimated at around 50,000 Egyptian pounds (Dh10,460) a month. The group, known as the Salah Society for Charity, also pays the marriage cost of the people who cannot afford it.
“We have pay lists of the people, who deserve financial support including widows and orphans either in the village or elsewhere,” Mohammad Bahnasi, who runs the association, said.
“Mohammad Salah has also instructed us to offer help for all emergency cases,” Bahnasi told private newspaper Al Watan.
Salah has also donated for setting up medical units of incubators, ventilation machines, haemodialysis and an ambulatory service in his village, located 120 kilometres north west of Cairo. He has also donated for upgrading the village’s school where he received his primary education.
The Liverpool marksman has the tradition of spending the Muslim fast month of Ramadan in his village where he hosts a mass iftar banquet.
Salah’s benevolence is not limited to his village, though. He regularly donates to hospitals and orphanages in the province of Tanta, of which his village is part.
He has also offered LE5 million in donation to the state-backed Tahia Misr Fund to help treat hepatitis patients in the country. He has supported a Cairo-based children’s cancer hospital with LE12 million.
