PEOPLE – Hickes helps the needy

PEOPLE – Hickes helps the needy

IN memory of his wife, former Nadroga soccer star George Hickes got involved with charity work. He lost his wife to Leukemia in 2023. That became his turning point and he decided to help sick people in need of wheelchairs. “My wife died at the Lautoka hospital on July 5, 2023,” he said. “I yelled out for a wheelchair at the hospital, but there was none in sight. “So we used a bed sheet, lay her down on it and pulled her with the bed sheet but wh…

Veronica Reyes (Azpeitia, 1979) is trying to achieve a big goal: to make her son Iren Reyes' dream come true. Irene has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and although the disease limits her daily life, her desire to play football knows no bounds. For this reason, Veronica Reyes is working to create an electric wheelchair football team in Gipuzkoa - football played with an electric chair - so that everyone with a physical disability can dream and enjo…