Awer Mabil's charity, Barefoot To Boots, helps supply football equipment to children in refugee camps. But the Socceroo is only just getting started.
, which aims to support refugees living in camps around the world by supplying them with, among other things, football gear.
"Then I slowly realised when I was there that everyone was playing barefoot. I took some shoes there and gave them to one kid, and then it just clicked. I was playing barefooted, [but] was like, 'Oh, I'm getting a lot of boots from Nike every year, so do my team-mates'. It's not just football gear that they need, though. As his charity grew, Mabil and his co-founders also turned their attention to schools and hospitals, donating a couple of incubators to a local clinic to help aid the survival of premature babies, alongside sanitary products for women and girls, ultrasound equipment, educational equipment such as laptops, art packs and musical instruments, as requested by the refugees themselves.
"I think [the award] is only motivation to continue that. Now we have more access, and people know more about it now and want to help, so that's a really good part. It's something that connects people from all over the world, but mainly in Australia, with the refugees. "It was actually my little brother who called me today. He put on Instagram that my sister is proud. And [he] reminds me so much of my sister, so there's some kind of way that they communicate — in a spiritual way, you could say — so she's always there.
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