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MARIO BALOTELLI

I am a naturalized Italian, but I come from Ghana.From my birth parents I was leaving. Luckily, me adopted two angels

I am suffering from racism every day. I am the first black person - which carries the shirt of the Italian national team.

I'm not evil - my experiences in the life have made me who I am - to someone who behaves differently than most of the people.

Before you criticize me in advance - Should you first try to find out more about me.

MARIO BALOTELLI

Mario BalotelliEveryone makes fun of him and nobody knows - that he donated more

than "50%" of his salary to children in Africa! No other athlete does that

Mario Balotelli was born on August 12th 1990 in Palermo, Sicily, to Christian Ghanaian immigrants Thomas and Rose Barwuah. The family moved to Bagnolo Mella in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, shortly after he was born. As an infant, he had life-threatening complications with his intestines which led to a series of operations, although his condition had improved by 1992.

Mario's health problems and the family's cramped living conditions meant the Barwuahs decided to ask for the help of social services who recommended that he be fostered.

In 1993, the Barwuah family agreed to entrust the three-year-old boy to an Italian foster family, the Balotellis.

From the very start mum, dad, brothers Corrado and Giovanni, and sister Cristina (all much older than him) looked after little Mario with all the love of a parent, brother or sister.

When he was just five Mario began playing football for the

Mompiano parish team and was immediately grouped with the

older boys because of his exceptional technical skills.

In 2001 he started playing for A.C. Lumezzane and

made his first team debut when he was

15 on April 2nd 2006 (Padova-Lumezzane,

Euganeo Stadium). And so, thanks in part to a special

exemption granted by the Serie C league (you have to be 16 to play for a

professional team), Mario became the youngest player ever in the history of

this category.

Pushed back and forth from the beginning, always and everywhere rejected. And this monkey noises and throwing bananas from the tribunes, where he always played.Racism is so repulsive as cannibalism. Under these difficult circumstances, Balotelli was difficult - one scandal followed the next.

Mario visits the children of Casa del Sole ngoMario supports the rehabilitation work of Casa del Sole Onlus, a non-profit organisation based in Curtatone (Mantova). Mario visited the children on the programme and saw for himself how rehabilitation activities with horses offer a way to increase their confidence. While he was there he too climbed into the saddle to try the exercises thechildren practice every day.

Mario contributes to the completion of a children’s school in SudanMario has donated his fee as international football testimonial to the

Cuey Machar Secondary School Foundation. This will make it possible to complete the construction of a secondary school for Sudanese

children in the village of Cuey Machar in the south of the country, the birthplace of Mario’s friend John Kon Kelei, a former child soldier. It was

his idea to build the school to give Sudanese children an alternative to weapons and fighting. Kon is a member of NYPAW (Network of Young

People Affected by War) and works for the CMSF foundation.

Mario supports Médecins Sans Frontières

Mario is also a supporter of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the international organisation. Mario is donating his own

earnings from sales of the children’s book - written by Luigi Garlando (”Buuuu”, Einaudi Editore) to the organisation, which provides

humanitarian aid in about 63 countries, for people whose survival is at risk due to violence, natural catastrophes, war, epidemics, malnutrition,

and lack of health care.

Mario supports the “One bridge for the future” projectMario is happy when he has the chance to put a smile on the face of a child in difficulty or with health problems. He

does so whenever he can and without making a fuss about it. And not just in Italy.

In Brazil, where he spent Christmas in 2007 and 2008 (as the guest of missionaries Sister Claudia Strada and Sister Raffaella Corvino, and the children who live in one of the country’s favelas), Mario supports the “Un Ponte per il Futuro” (A Bridge for the Future) project, which offers help to several local associations committed to providing an education for the children who live in the Mata Escura favela, one of the most notorious in Salvador de Bahia, where overcrowding, lack of services, poverty and violence put many children at permanent risk.

The childhood can not be wipe - they remains last a lifetime

Parents cared for the childhood of your children, that they, if they

have reason to cheer - in the future - can be even cheer.