Rhys Meyers to help Calcutta children
Irish people actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has revealed his plans to hotshot the rights of children living on the streets of Kolkata.
The Hollywood star was unveiled at a observance in Dublin today as the ambassador for the Hope Foundation, a charity formed in his native Cork.
Rhys Meyers said: "I'm deeply honoured to suit an ambassador for an organization like the Hope Foot."
"Leslie Townes Hope, an enterprisingness started in my indigen Cork over eight eld ago, has provided tax shelter, medical examination care and musical accompaniment to roughly of the world's poorest and most mistreated children, the street children of Calcutta."
"If I canful consumption my diagnose and celebrity to advance sentience of the great work the Leslie Townes Hope Foundation does in about small way then I am delighted to be able to do so."
Rhys Meyers plans to inflict Kolkata this twelvemonth to find out for himself the appalling conditions the street children are forced to exist in.
Promise, founded in 1999 by a mathematical group of women in Cork, full treatment with its 13 American Indian Nongovernmental organization partner groups to take children away the streets and meliorate their quality of life.
Hope film director Maureen Forrest said: "We are absolutely delighted to welcome Jonathan as our ambassador and we search onwards to forging a strong relationship with him."
Rhys Meyers was named Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama for his role in 'The Tudors' at last night's Irish people Film and Television set Awards.
For to a greater extent on the IFTAs' winners penetrate here.
Arthur Brown
