Murray seals Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award for Ukraine donations

Andy Murray won the 2022 Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award for eveyrthing he did this year to ease the situation in Ukraine most afflicted by it.

Pretty early in the year, Murray elected to donate all of his 2022 Prize Money to victims of the war in Ukraine with the focus being mostly on children. Murray is a UNICEF ambassador so the focus of his prize money is not surprising and it ended up being quite a sum as the total was a bit over 630,000 US dollars.

For all of his efforts, Murray was given the award for the second time in his career, as the first one came in 2014. After winning the award, Murray said:

"It seemed like something that would give me some extra motivation this year. I thought I could also raise some awareness and hopefully get others involved in helping, too. There are 7.5million children in Ukraine and, after more than nine months of increased conflict, 5.2million of them are in need of assistance."

He added:

"When you see images of children on the news who were impacted by things like this, that makes it even more difficult to stomach. I have four young children who are really fortunate that everything is fine with them. But, being a parent, it affects you differently. You try to put yourself in their shoes. I'm in the fortunate position to try to make some sort of difference, so hopefully the money that's been raised through Unicef can help some of the children who have been affected."

And finished off with:

"In 2014, I became a UNICEF UK Ambassador, and later that year I received the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award for the first time. It's an honour to be named recipient again. The reason to do the right thing is not for an accolade like this, but it is nice that it is appreciated somewhere."