Barclays honour Chelsea striker for his charity works in Africa

Sponsors of the English Premier League have honoured ex-Ivory Coast international and Chelsea striker, Didier Droba with an award for his charity works in his home country, Ivory Coast.

The striker's Didier Drogba Foundation have over the years provided financial and material support to education and health children in Ivory Coast.

He is also building a medical clinic in Abidjan and helping in the financing of  mobile clinics that will travel outside of the capital to those who are either too sick or poor to make the journey to the medical centre.

Drogba has been awarded with a Barclays Spirit of the Game trophy for all these awesome works.

"I come from a poor family where I played football in the streets with my friends with no shoes, there was no grass but we still enjoyed it," the striker said about his growing up.

"There is nothing better than when you see a kid with a smile on his face and that is why I'm trying to help. I want to do a lot of things in Africa, I want to give people the chance to dream, and it is easier to dream when you are in good health and happy.