World champion boxer Joe Calzaghe, rugby star Craig Quinnell and track athlete Jamie Baulch have all stepped up to support the anti-bullying charity Beatbullying.
Calzaghe, who retired earlier this year, “is said to have been instrumental in setting up a Welsh arm of the charity,” according to the BBC.
“Having been through bullying myself I know just how devastating an effect it can have on any child or teenager,” Calzaghe told the BBC. “It’s that personal experience which makes me truly passionate about the work Bullybeating does in schools and communities.”
If you think bullying can’t happen to your kid, consider these words from Calzaghe: “I was the world champion for 11 years, I was the best fighter in the world, but I was also somebody who was bullied – it just goes to show it can happen to anyone.”
Meanwhile, BBC Radio 1’s Aled Haydn Jones took the lead on the anti-bullying program “Bullying: Why Me?,” which is being screened tonight on BBC Two Wales.
Click here to read the entire BBC story (BBC, 10/14).
