{"id":170,"date":"2015-10-16T18:23:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2015\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-10-17T05:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T05:39:29","slug":"day-12-festival-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/kenya2015\/2015\/10\/16\/day-12-festival-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 – Festival time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our final day of coaching yesterday, in which we visited Mihang’o Primary and Igikiro Boys’ High schools, today we held a festival at Makuyu Boys’ School. This was the climax of our week in Murang’a and our last day ‘on duty’ before we head home tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The festival was played between eight teams, from five schools we visited during this week. The teams were split into two pools of four, and each was assigned a coach from the CWB team. Twelve pool games later, the semi-final line-up was complete: Makuyu (Mary) vs Ndeera 2 (George), and Karigu-Ini 1 (Benjamen) vs Murang’a College 2 (Sam). In the first game, the skill and relative experience of Ndeera prevailed over the the power of the older boys; in the second, Karigu-Ini ran out easy winners. Karigu-Ini then chased down 41 in 7 of their 8 4-ball overs in the final to win with an over to spare, much to Benja’s delight!<\/p>\n

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After presenting prizes to the winners, runners-up and players of the tournament, we celebrated a very successful trip with cold sodas and few games of ‘catch’ while our faithful driver, Iceman, (recently returned to Murang’a with the bus, repaired after the breakdown of a couple of days earlier) drove the kids back to school. It’s really fantastic to see cricket starting to thrive here, after the work done by CWB and Matthias over the last couple of years. It was especially encouraging to see the students’ talents applied so well to game situations, following all the skills-based coaching we’ve delivered.<\/p>\n

Everyone encouraged us to come back soon, especially the staff and teachers of Makuyu Boys’, who gave us a vote of thanks after we left them with a pile of kit. We were delighted also to see 32 kids get tested for HIV at the festival’s testing station, which we hope means that the “T” message is getting through.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to believe that this is the end – it’s been an incredible couple of weeks and a real team effort, especially on the longer, hotter and tougher days here in Murang’a. In two weeks, 3,620 kids (or thereabouts) have been coached and 64 coaches trained – by six tired mzungus and five fabulous Kenyan coaches (plus Matthias in Murang’a, and Peter, Charilitah, Queentor and Maggie in Nakuru). We’ve seen massive enthusiasm for the game and seen awareness of the ‘ABCT’ message improve, so mission accomplished. Kwaheri, Kenya – but I can’t imagine not coming back!<\/p>\n

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Team! L-R: Benja, Max, Daniel, Sarah, Philip, Nichola, Colette, Sam, George, Leigh, Mary<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n

– Sarah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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