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ON THE final morning Benji Marshall spent with his foster father, Mick Doherty, he spoke of wanting to help those who couldn't help themselves. His dad told him to start then and there. ''It was a dying man's wish,'' Marshall said. ''What was I to say?''
While sporting talent blessed his family, cancer also cursed it. He lost the man he called Dad to it just days later, adding to a list that includes his grandmother and two aunties.
''Cancer is rife within my family, especially in the women,'' the five-eighth said. ''Any sort of cancer, it's very hard to take the news, but when it's kids, it touches you a lot more. I meet these kids for the first time and I feel the pain.''
Marshall thus lent his name to the Benji Marshall Foundation, which helped raise, through the Footy Rocks dinner of early this year, $250,000 for the Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.
Yesterday, Marshall got to see the fruits of some of his fund-raising: an $800,000 research machine in the Institute's laboratory at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre, at the University of NSW.
''Seeing it first-hand reinforces why I want to be a part of it - to try and help,'' Marshall said.
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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/benji-delivers-on-promise-20110718-1hlqp.html#ixzz1SVA6JA4w
While sporting talent blessed his family, cancer also cursed it. He lost the man he called Dad to it just days later, adding to a list that includes his grandmother and two aunties.
''Cancer is rife within my family, especially in the women,'' the five-eighth said. ''Any sort of cancer, it's very hard to take the news, but when it's kids, it touches you a lot more. I meet these kids for the first time and I feel the pain.''
Marshall thus lent his name to the Benji Marshall Foundation, which helped raise, through the Footy Rocks dinner of early this year, $250,000 for the Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.
Yesterday, Marshall got to see the fruits of some of his fund-raising: an $800,000 research machine in the Institute's laboratory at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre, at the University of NSW.
''Seeing it first-hand reinforces why I want to be a part of it - to try and help,'' Marshall said.
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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/benji-delivers-on-promise-20110718-1hlqp.html#ixzz1SVA6JA4w
