Uganda Spring 2013
This Spring volunteers from CWB will be once again travelling to Uganda to coach and develop cricket with key AIDS awareness messages. You can follow their progress here on this blog.
Day 2- Entebbe to Tororo
Today we were travelling from Entebbe to Tororo and this required a nice and early start. Our first stop was Lugogo National Stadium where several of the African nations were preparing for the T20 World Cup African qualifiers. It had a fantastic thatched hut pavilion and there was plenty of training going on- I wanted...
Day One Heathrow to Entebbe or Gatwick?
Day 1 and the journey has to start somewhere, but for one of us, it almost didn’t start. With a hotel in victoria booked and the gatwick express paid all the individual had to do was meet up at the agreed time of 8.30am. There was however a small problem, the flight to entebbe was actually...
Holly Colvin Blog – Off one plane and onto another…this time Uganda bound
Three days ago I returned from India where I was competing in ICC Women’s World Cup. We spent the first week of the trip in Pune then for the remainder we were based in Mumbai, right next door to the Gateway of India. Pune seemed like a bustling city from what I saw and the...
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;...
Meet the Team
There is not long to go before Team Uganda 2’s adventure begins. It was a real pleasure to meet the rest of the team at the training weekend and it was pleasing to come away with my 100% winning record with CWB intact. It must be noted the team achieved this despite me being...
About Uganda
Uganda is located in East Africa and shares borders with Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country also shares a border with Africa’s largest lake, Lake Victoria which covers an area of 68,800 square kilometres in all. The country remains a member of the Commonwealth, although it became independent...
HIV/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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