Kolo Toure is putting on a Christmas party for orphans in Ivory Coast

There's enough written about the wages that a professional footballer can earn, so it's nice to hear a story like this one once in a while.

Liverpool's Kolo Toure is putting his hands into his own pockets to ensure that orphans in his home country, Ivory Coast, will enjoy Christmas. The 34-year-old former Manchester City and Arsenal man is continuing to support an orphanage in his homeland and now hopes to organise a Christmas party for the children there. "I've been looking after them by providing food and a small house, which is not great to be honest but is something which can help them because Crystal (the woman running the project) has about 100 kids," he is quoted as saying by The Mirror. "I am lucky that I am able to help them. Every month I send money to ensure they can have a good life and I will try to do that as long as I can provide. "We are not perfect but if you can still help people you help them and I will always help people who are honest and those kids have done nothing. "I think of them as my kids and to provide for them every month is nothing. I love to see them happy, that is most important. "Everything I do on my own and I've never really talked about it but with Christmas coming it is a good time to do something. "With Christmas coming I've tried to organise a Christmas party for them. "I'd like to organise one or two big events, like a dinner, to raise money for a nice place for them to live and invest money to generate more for them." Yes, we know that Kolo earns a wage that the rest of us can only dream of, but good on the man for such a kind hearted gesture.