Rhys Meyers to help Calcutta children
Rhys Meyers to help Calcutta children
Irish Gaelic player Jonathan Rhys Meyers has revealed his plans to champion the rights of children life on the streets of Calcutta.
The Hollywood principal was unveiled at a observance in Capital of Ireland today as the ambassador for the Hope Grounding, a charity formed in his indigene Bobfloat.
Rhys Meyers said: "I'm profoundly honoured to get an ambassador for an organization wish the Hope Foundation."
"Hope, an opening started in my aboriginal Cork over eight age ago, has provided shelter, health check charge and musical accompaniment to some of the world's poorest and most mistreated children, the street children of Calcutta."
"If I can manipulation my cite and celebrity to march on cognizance of the great work the Bob Hope Foundation does in some small way and so I am delighted to be able to do so."
Rhys Meyers plans to chatter Calcutta this year to see for himself the appalling conditions the street children are forced to live in.
Hope, founded in 1999 by a group of women in Cork, workings with its 13 Indian NGO married person groups to aim children off the streets and improve their quality of biography.
Promise director Maureen Forrest said: "We are absolutely delighted to receive Jonathan as our ambassador and we look forwards to forging a strong relationship with him."
Rhys Meyers was named Best Atomic number 82 Actor in a Television system Drama for his part in 'The Tudors' at close night's Irish Cinema and Television Awards.
For more on the IFTAs' winners snap here.

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