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    A Brush With Death Propelled A 9-Year-Old To A Muhammad Ali Award

    As a poor, sick village boy in Ghana, Shadrack Frimpong remembers "praying and saying if I can keep these legs, then I will use them and work to help other people." And that's exactly what he did.
    by Diane Cole Sep 13, 2019 5 minutes
    Shadrack Frimpong accepts his Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in Louisville on September 12.

    For Shadrack Frimpong, 28, finding himself a recipient of a 2019 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award "feels pretty crazy," he says, "because here we have a kid who grew up in the middle of the forest in rural Ghana being compared to someone who really was the greatest of all time."

    He is one of six recipients of the annual award, given to advocates and activists for social change who are under 30. The awards were presented Sept. 12 in Louisville, Ky.

    Frimpong was honored for his achievements as founder of Cocoa360, a nonprofit venture designed to directly finance clinics and schools in rural Ghana through revenues earned from communally-run village cocoa farms.

    The first school opened in 2017 and now has about 150 students. The health clinic has treated about 3,500 patients, many for malaria, and has delivered approximately 70 babies.

    In recognition of his work,, received the and was listed among the in 2018.

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