Rwanda 2010
Day 5 – 5th October – Greenhills – Apade – Kagarame – Nyragunga
Report coming soon
Day 4 – 4th October – Greenhills – Kagarame – Nyragunga
Picked up by the bus at 7.30 for an 8 start at Greenhills Academy, it was great to get out with the cricket kit and actually start coaching and delivering the HIV/AIDS messages.
Day 3 – 3rd October – Kagarama – Genocide Memorial – RCA Dinner
A much needed lie in had us leaving the apartments at 10 to go the Kagarama School to watch their school cricket team playing a match.
Day 2 – 2nd October – Addis Ababa – Kigali
After landing in Ethopia at around 7am local time we then had around a 3 hour wait until the flight to Kigali.
Day 1 – 1st October – Heathrow – Addis Ababa
After spending the Friday afternoon in the Halifax bank in Croydon attempting to get my bank account un-suspended after they found something suspicious in the previous days ‘Looking at Gorillas’ money transfer, I finally at 4 o’clock with a working bank card I set off through the pouring rain to East Croydon station to meet […]
Training Weekend Day 2 – Brighton
A quick summary of the activites on the second and final day of the training weekend.
Training Weekend Day 1 – Brighton
Day 1 of the training weekend in Brighton gave the full Rwanda team the chance to all finally meet up with each other.
CWB Rwanda 2010 Trip 1st-15th October
This October I am volunteering for a charity called Cricket Without Boundaries on a 2 week trip to Rwanda to help raise HIV/AIDS awareness through cricket.
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 […]