By AFPMore by this AuthorWorld Rugby CEO Brett Gosper hopes the 2019 World Cup in Japan will be a game-changer for the sport globally but also believes it can help transform lives across Asia. ChildFund aims to instil values associated with rugby and the programme will teach more than 25,000 children -- half of them girls -- leadership and conflict resolution. "Rugby is a sport that embraces different shapes and sizes and therefore that spirit of solidarity feeds into such a programme," Gosper told AFP. "The benefits of the collaboration are enormous as it is a truly transformational and tangible legacy for the sport, but also society in Asia, which is one of the reasons we awarded the Rugby World Cup to Japan." Japan's tsunami on March 11, 2011, left about 18,500 people dead or missing and one of the World Cup venues, Kamaishi, was hard-hit.

Source: Daily Nation March 04, 2019 15:56 UTC