Newspaper & Media articles
The measure of human tragedy
The Daily Telegraph - October 31, 2009
By Nick Walshaw
Nicholas Hitimana knows he stands taller than the stick. Knows wife Elsie will too. And so he prepares to die... And so six footballers, listening on, put themselves in that car too. Read more.Hero & Hope
The Daily Telegraph - October 30, 2009
By Nick Walshaw
There are some stories so moving and so inspiring they push normal sports stories off the back page. This is one of them - how a group of NRL stars went into the heart of darkness and found hope. See full article.One family at a time in Rwanda
The Daily Telegraph - October 28, 2009
By Nick Walshaw
Barefoot and dirty, the little boy appeared only briefly from within the banana trees. He was five, maybe six. His loose shirt was so grubby you could hardly make out the Parramatta Eel across the front. See full article.Dragons Community Player of the Month - JUSTIN POORE
Dragons Community - April 22, 2009
Longtime Dragons favorite Justin Poore is nominated as the Dragons Community Player of the Month for April. Justin has been busy combining his playing and training schedule whilst organizing the inaugural Charity dinner for “Hope Rwanda”. Following a life changing trip to Rwanda in 2008, where he witnessed the devastation and poverty affecting the people of Rwanda, Justin says “I truly felt I couldn’t turn my back on the experience – I had to contribute more”.Read the full article on the website: Click here
Decent men judged in black-and-white world
The Daily Telegraph - March 16, 2009
This is a column you might not expect. Certainly not in the current climate, when it's become far too easy to define rugby league players as those who are self-absorbed, treat others - particularly women - with disdain and believe they are laws unto themselves.The depressing circumstances concerning the sexual assault charges levelled at Brett Stewart, and the reported debauchery of the Manly season launch, has made us ponder - again - who are these people we fete as heroes?
League has lurched from crisis to crisis like this so many times of late that it is a question readily asked. It's easy to daub an issue in black and white, to see these men as heroes or villains. The media is largely responsible for this, and this journalist is big enough to say he has fallen into the trap, at times, of reporting in this way.
Click here to read the full article on the website.
Poore rich in spirit
The Daily Telegraph - February 28, 2009
By Josh Massoud
ST GEORGE Illawarra enforcer Justin Poore fell for another girl when he visited Rwanda during last year’s NRL charity mission. But his long-term flame Cara needn’t be too alarmed when she reads this, because Poore’s African darling was under four feet tall and still played with marbles.Read the full article: Click here
Innocents found - Big men with heart on a footy trip to Rwanda
The Daily Telegraph - October 18, 2009
By Josh Massoud
A mission to Rwanda taught six NRL stars some surprising lessons.Read the full article: Page One, Page Two, Page 3
Soldering on for his long-lost dad
The Daily Telegraph - October 16, 2009
By Josh Massoud
You probably don't know Jared Waerea-Hargreaves. Not yet anyway. The 108kg Kiwi is likely to bust into first grade next season, and when Manly coach Des Hasler unleashes him the NRL will be blessed with a rare story.Read the full article: Click here
Footy's greatest gift
The Daily Telegraph - October 11, 2009
By Josh Massoud
NRL stars offer hope in Rwanda. WHEN NRL stars visit schools in Australia, they are asked for autographs. In Rwanda, they are asked for email addresses and phone numbers. In Australia, the kids can be stand offish and disinterested. In Rwanda, they form a human archipelago where each island is a player ringed by hundreds of curious fingers.Read the full article: Click here
NRL stars go on mission to Rwanda
The Daily Telegraph - October 09, 2008
By Josh Massoud
END-OF-SEASON trips don't get more insane than this. We're talking
six footballers, three flights, 38 hours of sleep-deprivation and a
sombre display case bearing 27 human skulls. Rwanda, meet Nathan Hindmarsh, Todd Carney, Justin Poore, Jarryd Hickey, Todd Payten and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves. Fellas . . . meet Rwanda. This is the rugby league equivalent of putting man on the moon.
They've gone where no league player has been before: into deepest
Africa. Behold the Third World - malaria, mass graves and a charity project called the Village of Hope.
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