A trip to look back on with pride
I talked last night about the great virtues of the Ugandan coaches and this...
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Ugandan positives and initiative
When we look back upon our trip it can only be seen as a...
Jamie Burton’s Uganda Spring 2015 Overall Blog
It took a 5 hour car journey, 7 hours in a lovely hotel on...
Olympic dreams and crushing disappointment ……..
Ben Foster clearly has a penchant for Flipper films. As 94 mins clicked by...
On home straight but no sign of easing up
Tororo is a small town, an hour south of Mbale and close to the...
Mbale farewell and our coaching goes beyond cricket
Mbale said ‘Kwaheri’ to two of the team. Jamie’s experience and facilitation of all...
Day off and what a day it was!
As we have all mentioned throughout our blogs this last week Uganda is a...
Saturday: View from our Ugandan coach
Brilliant sun today,with 312 kids on the ground training as usual with...
We break the thousand barrier
Sustainability and development of this beautiful land and it’s amazing people may seem a...
Life after Phil
The setting for today’s training was the Mbale Municipal Stadium. Most would see this...
BBC bid farewell to Uganda
I know, I know. I’ve only just got here This is just day four,...
“Ugandans – thousands of ’em”
Despite John Colley’s best Michael Caine impersonation, the official figure was around 500. But,...
Day 2 – BBC’s Phil Mackie reporting from Soroti
Talk about a bus man’s holiday! Our first full day in Soroti in Eastern...
Day 1 – travelling up the Pearl of Africa
A team filled with youth, experience and passion reached Kampala on Saturday evening for...