Charity Rugby Nets $3.35 Million for Tsunami Relief

Peter Daou - March 23, 2005 - 2:03 pm

UN News Service: "The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received its largest single donation ever from a sporting event - nearly $3.35 million from a fundraising rugby game between the northern and southern hemispheres held earlier this month at Twickenham, England, to help the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami."

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