Day 5 – Muhanga on my mind
Flown in especially from Entebbe, following a week out with the CWB Uganda team, Lee (Huddersfield’s finest and a CWB veteran) has joined our team. Now our vocabulary this week has been treated to some of Mark’s west-country classics: “ark at eee” (look at that) and “where’s it to” (where is that?) being...
Day 4 – Mushishiro
Today we headed further south to Mushishiro, about 45km south of Muhanga, an extremely remote village situated on top of a hill for the first of our two day stint here. For our west-country representative, Mark, this was his last day with us before he heads back home following his army call up and there...
Day 3 – Nuns stops play
For situations we thought we would have to deal with on the trip, we expected to be cricket coaching around 100 students at any one time. We expected to be asked questions about HIV/AIDs and we expected some experimental culinary exploits when trying out the local Rwandan delicacies (for the record, curried goat appears to...
Day 2 – Down to Muhanga
Our first four days are based in the southern district of Muhanga, starting off today in Muhanga itself, a smallish town situated right at the very top of one of the many hills. After navigating up the long and winding roads to the top, our driver called ‘Steady Eddy’ pulls up to a football pitch,...
Day 1 – Arrival and Rwanda Orphans Project
For majority of the group, this is the first time we had been to Rwanda and for some the first time in Africa. The short drive from the airport to where we are staying, starting in downhill Kigali where the smell of wood smoke lingers in the cauldron at the hill base and people walk...
Final call for flight to Rwanda
Following our triumph at the CWB Training Weekend’s Inter Country Cricket Tournament, Team Rwanda aka ‘The Invincibles’, inspired by the other volunteers met at the Training Weekend and the work currently being done out in Uganda by the CWB team who headed out last week, are currently packing their bags in preparation for the departure to...
CWB Autumn 2012
This September volunteers from CWB will be once again travelling to Rwanda to coach and develop cricket with key AIDS awareness messages. You can follow their progress here on this blog.
Meet the Team
There will be a team of eight volunteers travelling to Rwanda. The team is made up from a healthy mixture of new and returning volunteers all of who are keen to get started. Once again we will be based in Kigali but are looking forward to making the journey North to Ruthengeri and South to...
About Rwanda
The Republic of Rwanda, known as the Land of a Thousand Hills, is a landlocked country located in the Great Lakes region of eastern-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Although close to the equator, the country has a cool temperate climate due to its high elevation. The...
HIV and 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...
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;...
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