CWB Autumn 2013
This October volunteers from CWB will be once again travelling to Kenya to coach and develop cricket with key AIDS awareness messages. You can follow their progress here on this blog.
How do you summarise that? Here’s my attempt…
So, that was Kenya Autumn 2013. A quite incredible trip that took to some fascinating places, opened our eyes to some wonderful and thought provoking sights, introduced us to many new friends and undoubtedly left us with some unforgettable memories. It's two weeks since we returned to the UK and while I've pretty much settled...
Sprinting to the end until rain stops play
So that’s it. We’ve completed our last coaching session and our time in Kenya has drawn to an end. Here’s a quick update on our activities over the past couple of days. On thursday morning we visited a couple of orphanages. The first one was a small project with around 15 children. It had a...
We’ve hit Nakuru but lost one along the way
Yesterday was primarily a travel day, although we squeezed in some important PR and an orphanage visit. Saf has penned a few words for us: “Having promptly loaded our van, our team left the hotel to travel to Busia town as we had been invited to meet the Governor of the county. Unfortunately, the Governor...
A guest blog from CWB’s Kenya Ambassador – Nicholas
Working with CWB has been really amazing. I am proud of being a team member on this year’s trip as well as CWB’s Ambassador in Kenya. There’s nothing more refreshing than spreading happiness and seeing a sad face transformed into one with a big smile and filled with so much joy. Not only do we...
Our time in Busia draws to an end
A couple of days’ worth of action to catch up on. The past two days have been challenging with the heat, travelling and local food beginning to take their toll on the team. However, we’ve pulled together and managed to complete a couple more school visits, run a cricket festival and raise some more money...
Cultural exchages with a local tribe
Wow! I think it’s fair to say that yesterday was pretty special and won’t be forgotten by anyone in the team for a while, if ever. The morning saw us complete the coach education course, but the true highlight was the reception given to us by Dun, our local contact, and his clan at their...
A daily update from Safdar: First day in Busia
Having had a good breakfast, with Carl cracking his whip to round up his posse, we left sharp at 8.30 from Bumala. Charles, the driver, competently meandered his way through hawkers, cattle, women carrying heavy loads on their heads, cars and motorbikers before emerging onto the open road. We passed through wonderful green landscapes, with...
Thankyou Kisumu. Hello Busia
After a night off from blogging our daily activities and worsening internet connections, there’s a couple of days’ worth of action to catch up on. We’re now in Busia, well actually a town called Bumala which is in the Busia region of Kenya, close to the Ugandan border. Defying the convention of following chronological order,...
A special hour at a special place
There were a few personal stories to come out of our visit to HOVIC earlier this week. David has penned his below. "We entered HOVIC armed with a tennis ball and not much else. I started throwing a tennis ball against the wall, playing catch with the kids. One teenager athletically jumped in front...
Quick, head them off at the pass!
Phew, today was a busy one! After yesterday’s near miss on the ‘legendary CWB day’ front, we were firmly ambushed today. As we entered the first school, there were a few dozen kids milling around that soon ran over to inspect what we were up to. Sarah and Beth were first off the bus and...
Derrick knows what he’s doing and C is for ‘CONDOMS!’
Today was our first school visit. By now we were all well aware of the infamous ‘CWB days’ that have happened more than once and involve double the number of excitable children you’re expecting, half the amount of space and completely flummoxed expressions when cricket is mentioned. As our trusty tour bus (see yesterday’s blog...
New friendships formed and another successful day
A switch in focus for the blog today as I’ll attempt to keep the words to a minimum but instead provide a few more photos to give our avid followers (hi Mum) an idea of what we’ve been up to the last couple of days. Today we completed the coach education in the morning, finishing...
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