Project Reflections
Laura reflects on her first CWB project, an amazing two weeks spent in Africa. After a cold beer in the hotel in Arua, my excitement levels were running high. I could tell from the faces of the other Cricket Without Boundaries (CWB) volunteers that they were feeling the same. The beer was well deserved as...
Day 10 – St Patrick’s Day
It was Mikes turn to blog tonight however having interviewed Patrick a teacher from Otim Tom Primary School who we introduced to cricket a year ago we decided that no words we could put down would explain more eloquently the reason we are here in Northern Uganda and the power that sport can have in...
Day 9 – The Sound of Music
Darryl reports on all the action from our first day in Lira Another hot and steamy day in Northern Uganda as we embarked on our first coaching session with the coaches of Lira it was like the end credits of Dads Army as we marched over to our field a couple of minutes away from...
Day 8 – Beckham’s and Desmond Tutu’s
Emily our Belgium correspondent reports on festival day in Gulu Potentially a great start here in Gulu this morning when at 10.15 (the most punctual so far), two local teachers arrived at our “ground” (a large field with goats grazing – and at times unvoluntarily fielding), shame the rest didn’t follow as we only ended...
Day 7 – Any Given Sunday
First time CWB-er Laura blogs about our Sunday in Gulu. It was one fine day here at Police Primary. We saw two primary schools arrive in the morning and all 50 children had a chance to practice some batting, bowling and fielding under the expert guidance of their teachers with us CWB coaches hovering around...
Day 6 – Not Police Academy
Clive blogs from Gulu on Day 6 our first coaching day here This morning, we went to Police Primary school near the centre of Gulu eta 9.30 for a 10 o’clock start to coach 16 local teachers. Things started well and we were delighted when about 60 children also arrived so we could teach them...
Day 4 – Cool Runnings
Michael the youngster of the group blogs about our last day here in Arua. Festival day here in Arua and what a day it was. There were a few tired faces this morning as the team gradually walked in for breakfast due to the impressive sounding thunderstorm that struck throughout the night. Anyway back to...
Day 3 – Pitch Perfect!
Darryl Woods a CWB First timer and ECB Level 3 coach talks about his first experiences coaching in Africa. We all turned up on day 3 with Great Expectations as five schools embarked on the Arua primary school playing fields, after supporting the local coaches through several drills including the encouragement with all the very...
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.
Meet the Team
As the trip approaches, why not make yourself familiar with the North Uganda team for 2013! Team Leader: Lee Booth A CWB verteran who needs very little introduction! This is Lee's second Spring 2013 project and he helped set up the connections in...
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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