CWB Autumn 2013
This Autumn volunteers from CWB will be once again travelling to Botswana to coach and develop cricket with key AIDS awareness messages. You can follow their progress here on this blog.
Blog 9 – Will.I.Am Brings the Boom Boom Pow
Today, we headed out to the same school as yesterday to complete our second day of coach education with the same teachers. The team bus was a slightly more pleasant place to be in the morning with Paul full of his normal good humour and charm (His words…) and we departed on time(ish). On arrival,...
Blog 8 – TOTAL-ly Wrong!
Today was the first day of coaching in Francistown and the team got off to a slow start to say the least. With the departure time set at 6.30am, the team of #Invincibles wandered slowly out of their rooms and onto the bus for about 6.50am. This was the start of a chaotic morning. Next,...
Blog 7. REST DAY
Today we had a 'rest day' which involved sitting around at the beautiful Woodlands Stop Over Lodge eating wonderful food (once again prepared by chef Paul) and generally taking the mick out of David for everything and anything we could possibly think of. Relax Eat Sleep Think of friends and family...
Blog 6 – North James and Don’t Spare the Zebras
Saturday morning came around and it was time to make the trip north to Francistown. Having surfaced at around 7.30am Africa time, we crammed ourselves into the bus with all of our bags as well as our new found kit straight from the airport. With Andrew wearing fresh pants to the relief of the rest...
Blog 5 – Ready for Action!
Today we travelled to Moshupa to a school called Kgabophuti which it situated about 60km away from our hotel. Once again Sam had arranged appointments with various contacts so was unable to join the team. In her place, we had Shameelah, the Botswana U19's Women's captain who assisted brilliantly throughout the days chaotic schedule. ...
Blog 4 – West to Kanye.
A short distance we had to travel, But on the way looked out for cattle. Still no kit but the BCA, Came up trumps and saved the day. The trip to Kanye took us west, Where 20 teachers tried their best. To meet and greet, Smile and prayer. Then we all got straight out there....
Blog 3 – Sparkling in Jwaneng
Today we travelled to the town of Jwaneng which is famous for its Diamonds. 9 members of the team went on the 2 and a half hour drive to the school whilst HIV/AIDS specialist Sam had meetings arranged with various contacts in Gabarone to discuss strategies on how best to convey the message in Botswana....
Day 2 Botswana – ‘Dumela Botswana!’
Today, the team had a 'rest day' which involved a trip south to the Tau Lodge in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. We decided, as a team, that the best way to describe the day was to put together some of our favourite photos from the trip into one post so below are our choices....
Botswana – Blog 1. Arrivals
19/10/13 – 1pm Team Bots arrive at Heathrow, minus David who claimed weird things were happening on the tube. 2.15pm – To the baggage scales… Here's some maths for you, 8 people, 2 bags each = 17 bags to check in, right? £168 later, we are still 4 bags short but at least all 10...
Training Weekend September 2013
Friday the 13th came along….Team Botswana needed a song! To Brighton we went as complete strangers, to learn about HIV and its dangers. We all arrived with hope and fear, but soon it all became quite clear. We introduce you dear blog reader, here is Mark our project leader. Bringing us all up to speed,...
Cricket Without Boundaries
The Cricket Without Boundaries Trust was established in April 2005 by founder-trustees Andy Hobbs, Chris Kangis and Ed Williams. It is a registered charity in the UK, number 1111316, operating under the name of Cricket Without Boundaries (“CWB”). CWB has three main goals: To spread cricket through coaching children and teaching adults how to coach;...
HIV and AIDS in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is more heavily affected by HIV and AIDS than any other region of the world. An estimated 22.4 million people are living with HIV in the region – around two thirds of the global total. In 2008 around 1.4 million people died from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and 1.9 million people became infected...
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