George Weah

===Football and children===
Weah has tried to use football as a way to bring happiness and promote education for children in Liberia. In 1998, Weah launched a CD called ''Lively Up Africa'' featuring the singer Frisbie Omo Isibor and eight other African football stars. The proceeds from this CD went to children's programs in the countries of origin of the athletes involved.<ref>{{cite news |title=UNICEF People: George Weah |url=https://www.unicef.org/people/people_george_weah.html |access-date=29 August 2018 |agency=UNICEF}}</ref>

Weah was President of [[Junior Professional FC|Junior Professional]], a former football club he founded in Monrovia in 1994. As a way to encourage young people to remain in school, the club's only requirement for membership was school attendance. Many of the young people, recruited from all over Liberia, went on to play for the Liberian national team.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201605091262.html |title=Liberia: Amb. George Manneh Saykozie Weah, Best Man to Lead New Liberia |last=Bamba |first=Mohammed M. |date=9 May 2016 |work=FrontPageAfrica (Monrovia)|access-date=27 December 2017}}</ref> Weah was also actively involved with youth programs in a Liberian enclave on [[Staten Island]], New York, when he resided there for a time.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.silive.com/news/2017/12/former_staten_islander_george.html |title=Former Islander and soccer star George Weah elected president of Liberia |first=Erik |last=Bascome |newspaper=Staten Island Advance |date=29 December 2017 |access-date=30 May 2019}}</ref>