Festivals Wednesday

South Festival

The festival in the south of Poços took place in the beautiful ’’Parque Ecologico Municipal.” Nine quick cricket game zones were set up either side of a tree lined boulevard just over the fence from the municipal airport, and at 1:38pm the first of many games, involving 16 teams began.

Led by Liaria, the young coaches in their now familiar black or blue t-shirts ran the festival with enthusiasm, vigour and fun at the forefront of their game management. Given the excellent orchestration and calm manner in which the games were played the only real challenge of the day was the isolated competitive teacher challenge to the scores, always apparent at a CWB attended festival. This was equally well-managed by the Cricket Brasil Team. It also helped that the school in question were so far ahead in the standings that their lead was unassailable.

By 4pm, we had our winners, the name drowned out by a landing helicopter! Once the noise and the laughter subsided the winning school, all the way from Caldas was Aldeia Indígena Xucurú Kariri, dressed in the most colourful school t-shirts seen on this project.

North Festival

On the other side of the city a similar festival was held at the Estádio Doutor Ronaldo Junqueira football stadium,
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22 games, 10 pitches, 10 overs per team 4 overs per bowler, the coaches and under 15s umpired the sessions. The children were embracing the opportunity and proud of their teams. Winning celebrations of some energy and volume! With CWB Monitoring and Evaluation guru Sarah in attendance the festival also took the opportunity to apply and test the latest qualitative activities based around the curriculum that new coaches are studying. CWB volunteers sat and spoke to some of the participants and their teachers, gathering team names, the values and the behaviours they want within their team e.g. respect, empathy, friendship and unity, and team motto’s, such as “Those who do the right thing have the most to gain”

A local camera crew were in full swing at one point spreading the word of this great opportunity. The teachers proud of their children participating.
The rain drops became a deluge and all had to stop play, equipment rescued, Medals presented in the stadium and all in the buses home.