Amobi Okoye gives back to Africa
NFL Player, Amobi Okoye, started a project with other athletes called the Athletes in the Diaspora Community Interventions (ADCI) which provides humanitarian support for change on the African continent.
For one of the projects he established, Changing Africa Through Education (CATE), Amobi traveled to Nigeria with several other professional athletes (Adewale Ogunleye, Osi Umenyiora, Israel Idonije, and Ahman Green) to work on programs that included scholarship endowments, soccer camps, clean water programs and, and held five mobile clinics for over 1,000 residents. In addition, medicine was distributed in partnership with physicians from Integris Health of Oklahoma. Other athletes who donated but were unable to make the trip include Nnamdi Asomuga (Oakland Raiders), Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (Green Bay Packers), Akbar Gbaja-Biamila (Miami Dolphins), and Adimchinobe Echemandu (Oakland Raiders). » Read more…
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