Cricket Without Boundaries
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Cricket Without Boundaries
On behalf of UK charity Cricket Without Boundaries, our band of adventurous cricket coaches and volunteers is making a two-week trip in October 2009 to Botswana, in order to promote positive awareness of HIV/Aids, while coaching cricket to enthusiastic youngsters in the country along the way. We will relish the varied and interesting challenges ahead of us both on and off the field as our adventure unfolds, and we'll include here on our blog contributions and images from each member of our hardy bunch in warts-and-all episodes throughout the trip.
There'll be something for everyone - tears, laughter, fun, gastric complaints - and that's just on malaria day. We are based in and around Gaborone, Botswana's capital, for the first week of our trip, before venturing further afield into more rural areas of this beautiful country during the second. Our collective aim is to share positive messages about HIV/Aids issues (Botswana has a huge HIV prevalence of around 24%) with the many different people that we hope to encounter in the areas that we'll visit.
Our project in Botswana is part of an extensive programme organised and delivered by Cricket Without Boundaries, and this includes similar HIV/Aids awareness cricket coaching trips to Kenya and Rwanda too, with like-minded volunteers all with an equal sense of wanderlust - find out more on our website: www.cricketwithoutboundaries.com
Cricket Without Boundaries is a UK-based charity dedicated to helping, educating and developing local communities around the world through the spread and growth of cricket. It is also about personal empowerment, both for adults and for children. The charity uses the sport to help develop personal skills ranging from basic teamwork to self-discipline and leadership.