{"id":8,"date":"2010-10-15T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbkenya.wordpress.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2014-01-09T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:23:56","slug":"training-weekend-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2010\/2010\/10\/15\/training-weekend-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Weekend &#8211; Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The training weekend in Brighton was the first time that the &#8216;Kenyan team&#8217; had met and it was great to put a face to an email address! There were also two other CWB teams at the training and they were due to depart to Rwanda and Botswana &#8211; queue some well mannered rivalry!!<\/p>\n<p>You will note that this write up has a familiar feel to it, and it should do as I have pinched the Rwanda&#8217;s write up as I am pressed for time and it was expertly written(thanks and sorry Lee!).<\/p>\n<p>So the programme for the weekend was as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10.00 \u2013 11.00:<\/strong>Introduction from Andy and Chris 2 trustees of Cricket Without Boundaries<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.00 \u2013 12.00: <\/strong>An example warm up of a cricket drill and a game of indoor cricket incorporating AIDS\/HIV messages. It&#8217;s interesting how a bit of competition encourages team building!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>12.00 \u2013 1.00:<br \/>\n<\/strong>A heartfelt HIV\/AIDS presentation from Veronika\u00a0who volunteered with\u00a0CWB last year in Botswana. We learnt many things, some of which can be seen below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The difference between HIV and Aids\u00a0and how\u00a0HIV is transmitted.<\/li>\n<li>High risk groups.<\/li>\n<li>Natural progression and the risk of HIV transmission.<\/li>\n<li>HIV prevalence worldwide\n<ul>\n<li>In 2008 33.4 million people are infected<\/li>\n<li>The 19 most prevalent countries are all in Africa, 60% of all people infected globally are in Africa.<\/li>\n<li>In the worst countries in Africa this can rise to as high as 25%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2008 prevalence in Kenya was \u00a0\u2013 7.1 \u2013 8.3% &#8211; although the accuracy of this figure was questioned\n<ul>\n<li>Anti HIV medications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 30% of people who need ARV drugs receive them, 70% do not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Effect of HIV\/AIDS e.g. the life expectancy in some African countries can be as low as 39 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Ways to reduce the transmission of HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n<li>CWB messages\n<ul>\n<li>A \u2013 Abstain<\/li>\n<li>B \u2013 Be faithful<\/li>\n<li>C \u2013 Wear a condom<\/li>\n<li>Testing<\/li>\n<li>Treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Why volunteering is important<\/li>\n<li>How can cricket help?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were then sent\u00a0back into the sports hall and each countries teams were asked to develop and then demonstrate a coaching drill incorporating HIV\/AIDS awareness messages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.00 \u2013 2.00:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lunch<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.00 \u2013 4.00:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Outside (definitely colder than Africa) for a sample session run by Andy then again into country groups to each run a session on a different batting stroke. I found this extremely helpful and enjoyed the impressive session held by Ghazi whereby every other word was connected to the CWB message!<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.00 \u2013 4.45:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Country specific logistics, answering all question\/concerns that the group had.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.45 \u2013 5.00:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Back into the hall for a quick game of urban cricket &#8211; the less we talk about this the better!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Started at 9.30, After a fiercely contested 10 minutes of a handball style game\u00a0 any cobwebs were swept away and the rest of the morning was spent in country groups working on more coaching sessions that would incorporate the HIV\/AIDS messages.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch it was back into the gym where each team was asked to demonstrate their two best drills to the rest of the teams &#8211; an impressive display by the Kenyan team even if i say so myself!<\/p>\n<p>It was then that a Land Rover turned up stuffed to the gills with donated hard ball cricket equipment that was then split up to be distributed into the different countries.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the afternoon was spent again in country team\u2019s distributing the kit\/t-shirts to be taken as luggage and finalising details such as airport meet times etc.<\/p>\n<p>We then had a short &#8216;team&#8217; presentation from CWB&#8217;s Andrew (or Adam!) who answered many questions thrown at him. This concluded a fun and very informative weekend that left us all feeling much more confident about our trip. We were all ready and raring\u00a0to go but we still had a little over three weeks to wait.<\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you must go to the CWB team for organising the weekend and especially Andy who was around the whole time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 The training weekend in Brighton was the first time that the &#8216;Kenyan team&#8217; had met and it was great to put a face to an email address! 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