Paul Pogba launches new fund to create 'self-sustaining' charity model aimed at ending poverty

Former Manchester United and current Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba comes from a humble background. That is why he relates to a commoner’s problems; poverty is the prime one among them. There are accounts narrated by Pogba himself from interviews where he’d talk of his divorced mother going to food banks to get her children food. He recently launched a new fund in collaboration with a UK-registered charity to tackle the issue of Poverty in the United Kingdom.

"I remember we used to go there when I was four or five. They help you with milk, sugar, and all this stuff, and my mum used to go there and queue. She was a mother of three and divorced from my father. I didn't just come up like this and have money. I struggled and it made me improve and grow. I now have value of money and value of life. I know what it is to struggle. I saw it, my mother did it," Pogba said.

‘Hopefully, if we can touch everyone ending poverty would be the goal’ – Paul Pogba

Pogba, a Muslim by religion, said that charity is a big part of his faith. His latest venture is based on the Islamic principle of Waqf or endowment. It will be run and maintained in collaboration with a UK-registered charity called Wahed. The fund aims to create a self-sustaining model of charity. "Essentially it is a perpetual endowment where you give money that is invested and the income that's generated from that is used for good," explained the compliance director of Wahed, Umer Suleman.

"I want to help because it can be huge for some people," he said. "It's nothing for us but it can be huge for them." "You have to start somewhere. You can start with one person then two, then three, and then it will get bigger and bigger. We just try to help as much as we can and hopefully, if we can touch everyone ending poverty would be the goal," Pogba exclaimed hinting at his desire to expand the fund beyond the UK.