Edin Dzeko: I am happy that I can help people

Telemach

World renown Bosnian soccer player Edin Dzeko visited on Friday visited the 'Parents' House', a building where Bosnian children suffering from cancer live together with their parents during treatment, located within the complex of Pediatric Clinic "Jezero" in Sarajevo.

The Parents House consists of 10 apartments, stretched over 666 square meters, and includes a multi functional space with a playroom and a living room, a joint kitchen and dinning room and a space for the association.

The visit was part of a social responsibility campaign initiated by Dzeko and the ‘Telemach’ Foundation, who will fund one of the apartments within the Parents’ House for the next three years.

Other companies, institutions, organisations and individuals were invited to choose an apartment they would fund as well on Friday.

Having children himself, Dzeko told N1 that children are the most valuable thing to every parent.

“When a parent sees that his child is sick, it is surely not easy,” Dzeko said, adding that seeing “these children and their parents and how they manage to smile in these difficult moments” puts everything into perspective.

“Health is the most important thing. I am happy that we are together with Telemach, which recognized the Parents’ House as an important association. I know that this is only one in a line of Telemach's projects and I think that in the future we will do a lot in regard to this,” he said.

Dzeko is a UNICEF Ambassador since 2009 and he is proud of that fact.

“I am above all happy that I can help the people who need help and everything I do, I do from my heart. I think there are a lot of people who need help,” he said, adding this was not his first time he visited the Parents’ House.

“I call upon companies and people who are able to help, to at least come and see the children and their parents, to show them they are not alone, like we did today,” he said.

Dzeko said his wife, Amra, is an Ambassador of the Parents’ House.

“We are here to help as much as we can, and it will continue to be like that in the future.”

He noted that everything he has achieved, he did thanks to hard work and the support of his parents.

“It is important for children to be with their parents, as everything is easier when parents are there,” he said.