From the time he was a young boy, growing up just outside Toronto, Eugene Omoruyi made it a goal to give back.
Born in Nigeria before moving to Canada as a toddler, Omoruyi regularly visited his home country as a boy. He saw the way Nigerians celebrated values like family and education; he saw as well the poverty that was all too common for kids in Benin City, the metropolis where he was born.
So as Omoruyi began to blossom into a budding star on the basketball court, his dreams of helping folks back home blossomed as well.