CWB Spring 2012
This March 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.
Sponsors needed
I hope to get companies (and maybe cricket clubs) to help sponsor various parts of this fantastic project the following sponsorship opportunities are available: T-Shirts Wristbands Coaching kit Hard ball cricket kit Website sponsors It is my intention to try and get some press for the trip and also drive a bit of traffic to...
Meet the team
David Terrace (Project Leader 1st week) I have been involved with CWB for year and a half now and have loved every minute of it! This will my third trip out to Rwanda, having been out in October 2010 and 2011. I also run the CWB twitter account, so make sure you follow us on...
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;...