| WRU general manager Steve Lewis has given his thanks to the four Welsh regions for each releasing a player for the game, on a Celtic League weekend. “This game has our full support, but also the support of the Regions, without whose agreement we would not have been able to release the players,” said Lewis. “The WRU is only too happy to help with this match, not only is it for a good cause, a human disaster that touched us all but it gives these players the opportunity to play with and against some of the best players in the world.
“Rugby is a sport that unites, both on and off the field and what better way of helping the victims and their families than through playing rugby?”
The proceeds for the match will go to the IRB’s humanitarian partner, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) to support the vital rebuilding work being carried out in the region devastated by the Tsunami on 26 December 2004.
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