Denmark-based striker Godsway Donyoh has signed up to the Common Goal campaign to donate 1% of his income to global charitable projects, with his contribution going towards helping the needy in Cape Coast in his native Ghana.
The Nordsjaelland attacker's monthly financial contribution will go towards helping the Play Soccer Ghana in Cape Coast that helps needy potential footballers - both male and female - to attend school while playing the game.
Donyoh joins a small of list of Ghanaian footballers based in Europe who are putting their own money towards the needy in the country.
He becomes the second Ghanaian player to sign to the project started by Manchester United and Spain midfielder Juan Mata after Black Stars winger David Accam joined the campaign.
Mata launched the Common Goal NGO alongside his business partner Jurgen Griesbeck to help raise funds for underprivileged communities in the world.
Players who have signed up across the globe agree to donate one per cent of their salary to the cause that would be used to fund selected programmes of their choice.
So far several top players in Europe including the likes of Giorgio Chiellini, Mats Hummels and Kasper Schmeichel have signed up to the cause.
Alex Morgan and Alfie Mawson are also among the 94 individuals who have signed up and this summer they were joined by Nordsjaelland, the first football club to take part and now Donyoh wants to help the needy in Ghana.
"I joined Common Goal, because I think they are doing a great work. Using football to help kids all over the world and give people opportunities to show, what they can do. Common Goal brings happiness into other people’s life, and that’s what I always wanted to do myself," Donyoh said.
"Together with Common Goal I have chosen to support a project called Play Soccer Ghana in Cape Coast, who takes care of kids from areas with poverty and lack of education. I chose them, because it is in my home country, and it will give me the opportunity to visit the project when I’m home on vacation, see the work and get to know some of the kids there better.
"Doing this will also inspire me for the future to realise my own dream of building or running an orphanage in Ghana. That is something I always wanted to do. To build an orphanage in Ghana or to support an existing one.
"Since I was young, giving back has been a big part of me. It makes me sad to see people who has nothing, and when I have something, I want to share. This is how my family raised me and this is what the Right to Dream Academy taught me. People shouldn’t go through the same as I did, if something can be done to prevent it."
Nordsjaelland’s commitment to the Common Goal project does not stop at academy level.
The club’s management team have led the way by agreeing to donate 1% of their salaries and a few first-team players have also joined Common Goal.
Left-back Mads Mini Pedersen has established his own social enterprise initiative in Ghana, which aims to find sustainable ways of supplying products to mothers, which they can sell at markets to fund their kids’ football ambitions.