BEVERLY HILLS, August 19, (THEWILL) – Former Nigerian defender, who is now a pastor, Taribo West, says he used his church in Milan, Italy, to assist homeless immigrants and prostitutes in a bid to save them.
The founder of Shelter in the Storm Miracle Ministries of All Nations stated this while speaking with Punch, saying that God directed him to use his personal resources to assist the poor and the underprivileged.
“I used my church while I was in Milan to help the homeless and Nigerians who were taken to Italy all in the name of prostitution.
“God told us to use whatever we generated from our personal income to upgrade the standard and living of the less-privilege, especially those that the society had written off because living in Europe is not easy, it’s like a land of economic refugees.
“We had a lot of immigrants coming in almost every day to the church; most of them didn’t have places to stay, some didn’t have documents to assimilate them into the society.
“What we did was after delivering them, we gave them a place to stay and from there we looked for jobs for them and we helped them procure documents as well. It was very tough for me, because I spent a lot of money. But it was historical in the Italian nation,” he said.
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West was a center back for both AC Milan and Inter-Milan of Italy during his playing career. He was also a prominent feature for Auxerre of France.
