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We are completing the Miles for Mose challenge for two reasons.
Firstly, the man that is Mose Masoe.
As a bit of background for those that are unaware, Mose had his career cruelly cut short in January 2020 after sustaining a spinal injury in a pre-season friendly. This injury left Mose paralysed, from the chest down. So far, and against all odds, Mose has battled and using his well-documented positive mind-set, he has worked his way back to being able to walk and continues to battle each and every day wowing people on social media with pictures and videos of his recovery.
However, behind what we are all able to see on social media, there is concern for the Masoe family, because he is not a UK citizen, there is no Personal Independence Payment for him or Carer’s Allowance for wife Carissa.
His contract with Hull KR finishes at the end of this year, with the couple and their three children being likely to return to Australia – because he is a New Zealand citizen, he is not eligible for benefits there either.
And after learning his insurance pay-out will be a maximum of £50,000, which may be eaten up by the flight home, and with no future income assured, fund raising efforts for the big man are have restarted from various people.
This is where we come in, during the first lockdown, the females rugby programme participants had a challenge of 100k in May, a challenge to keep fitness levels up and hopefully keep us in a state to resume rugby activities as soon as possible. We also opted to use that as a fundraiser as all of the teams are self-funded. Considering the period of uncertainty he was facing at that moment, one of the first donators to our fundraising was Mose Masoe, which goes to show even at a terrible time in his own life he is still thinking of and looking at ways to help others.
The female rugby programme at Hull Kingston Rovers Community Trust comprises of the following teams:
Under 13s
Under 14s
Under 16s
Women’s
We have decided to fundraise through the Miles for Mose challenge. This consists of all participants working together to collectively accumulate 33,059 miles in a 42 day time frame. The 33,059 mile target represents the distance that Mose has travelled over the course of his career to sign for the clubs he has played for. The challenge started on Sunday 7th February and will end on Sunday 21st March prior to the 2021 Super League starting on Friday 26th March 2021.
The second reason is, as mentioned above, this programme is self-funded by the participants as all amateur rugby league teams are. As a result of this, we will be splitting all funds raised by this challenge on a 50-50 basis between the Hull KR Community Trust Female Rugby League Programme and Mose Masoe.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and an even bigger thank you if you are able to support this cause.
Firstly, the man that is Mose Masoe.
As a bit of background for those that are unaware, Mose had his career cruelly cut short in January 2020 after sustaining a spinal injury in a pre-season friendly. This injury left Mose paralysed, from the chest down. So far, and against all odds, Mose has battled and using his well-documented positive mind-set, he has worked his way back to being able to walk and continues to battle each and every day wowing people on social media with pictures and videos of his recovery.
However, behind what we are all able to see on social media, there is concern for the Masoe family, because he is not a UK citizen, there is no Personal Independence Payment for him or Carer’s Allowance for wife Carissa.
His contract with Hull KR finishes at the end of this year, with the couple and their three children being likely to return to Australia – because he is a New Zealand citizen, he is not eligible for benefits there either.
And after learning his insurance pay-out will be a maximum of £50,000, which may be eaten up by the flight home, and with no future income assured, fund raising efforts for the big man are have restarted from various people.
This is where we come in, during the first lockdown, the females rugby programme participants had a challenge of 100k in May, a challenge to keep fitness levels up and hopefully keep us in a state to resume rugby activities as soon as possible. We also opted to use that as a fundraiser as all of the teams are self-funded. Considering the period of uncertainty he was facing at that moment, one of the first donators to our fundraising was Mose Masoe, which goes to show even at a terrible time in his own life he is still thinking of and looking at ways to help others.
The female rugby programme at Hull Kingston Rovers Community Trust comprises of the following teams:
Under 13s
Under 14s
Under 16s
Women’s
We have decided to fundraise through the Miles for Mose challenge. This consists of all participants working together to collectively accumulate 33,059 miles in a 42 day time frame. The 33,059 mile target represents the distance that Mose has travelled over the course of his career to sign for the clubs he has played for. The challenge started on Sunday 7th February and will end on Sunday 21st March prior to the 2021 Super League starting on Friday 26th March 2021.
The second reason is, as mentioned above, this programme is self-funded by the participants as all amateur rugby league teams are. As a result of this, we will be splitting all funds raised by this challenge on a 50-50 basis between the Hull KR Community Trust Female Rugby League Programme and Mose Masoe.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and an even bigger thank you if you are able to support this cause.