UEFA adds $4M for charity work, teams with boxer Klitschko

Published 4:00 pm Thursday, November 29, 2018

NYON, Switzerland (AP) UEFA has increased annual funding by more than $4 million for its children’s charity, and added former world heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko as a trustee.

The European soccer body said Friday it more than doubled funding for the UEFA Foundation for Children 6.8 million euros ($7.7 million) per year instead of 3 million euros ($3.4 million).

The foundation has picked 45 new projects to get funding including in Nepal, South Sudan and Venezuela to lift its involvement to more than 100 worldwide.

The new projects include one in Ukrainian schools with the Klitschko Foundation.

“We are in a privileged position,” UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said, “and we must use this to help children living in challenging and difficult circumstances around the world.”

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