After dispatching a small team to Greenhills (Stu and Kev plus 2 Rwandan coaches Eric and Desire) the rest of us were on the bus this time heading to the Southern Territory. There were 8 classes today at Greenhills and the progress is very encouraging, both teachers Scott and Hermione are now running cricket classes and today they were scoring proper cricket games.

The trip South had the rest of the group going to two places Ian and Steve Vaid who we met while over hear and is working for the VSO and also playing cricket locally went all the way to Butare (about a 2 hour drive) to the Centre Des Jeunes Sourdes Muets to work with a class of 28 deaf children. We now have contact details there and at a secondary school so hopefully a future CWB trip can pick up where we have started.

On the way to Butare me, Tim, Dave, Dan and Goeffrey were dropped of at the football stadium in Gitarama, we were due to run 2 x 2 hour classes for children from local schools. The primary schools all turned up in the morning and we had an intense 2 hour session with them, there were very few English speakers around so at times it was tough but we managed to do some batting and bowling as well as a little game at the end.

Unfortunately during the lunch break there was a bit of a storm brewing so the Secondary school children did not come down to the ground, but as has been the case for the whole trip you never seem to have to look far to find a group of children, in this case around 25 boys and girls from a local deaf school turned up so we spent about 2 hours showing them the basics of cricket. We also then set up a realistic looking game of cricket in the centre using the kids as fielders to demonstrate the game to a couple of teachers. While we were in Gitarama we also met with Innocent who is the head of sport development for the whole region and who is very keen to get all the schools involved, again hopefully this is something the RCA and CWB can help with in the future.

Because of the time in the van we could not get back in time for the Nyagunga after school club and when we got to Kagarama there was a football game going on and as it is exam time the team were busy revising, so we hopped back in the van and all got back to the apartments at around 5 which is a trip record.

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