Football stars make difference in children’s lives

Football hopes to put a smile on faces of 11 South African children in the near future.  A team of international football players have teamed up with a host of civil organisations and the corporate community to help children suffering from facial deformities.

Through the Big Shoe campaign and Smile Foundation, 11 South African children will be treated free of charge.

Anyone, who knows a child with a facial deformity that needs medical facial transformation, is urged to participate in the Big Shoe Cup to be held at the Bram Fischer Multi-Purpose Sports Complex on the 21st of July.

Eleven Under 12 teams, comprising boys and girls, will participate in a football tournament to raise awareness for this cause.

“Those kids needs us we need to make sure that we plant a seed in them a seed that will make them value what life is all about,” said Former Bafana Bafana Coach, Shakes Mashaba.

This being youth month, many medical doctors and nurses in 11medical facilities, has committed to lend a helping hand.

They will perform 11 operations that could easily cost millions of rand, free of charge.

“For us it’s about showcasing our governments’ interventions and bringing people from across South Africa that may need the surgeons,” CEO of Smile Foundation, Hedley Lewis.

“We have got many honourable doctors this work on these eleven children for free they are bring skills they are happy to be part of the big shoe and smile foundation to help the children,” said Big Shoe Chief Executive, Igor Wentzel.

Eleven international stars, including the likes of Paul Pogba and Mesut Osil have in the past paid the surgical costs for needy children.

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