Cricket Without Boundaries takes sport to local schools

United Kingdom-based charity organisation, Cricket Without Boundaries (CWB) has aided local schools with cricket playing skills by coaching clinics and learning sessions for children.CWB has been incorporating HIV/AIDS awareness messages in the clinics and empowering communities through cricket. This is the third visit by the charity organisation to Rwanda this year.Ed Williams, CWB Trustee told Times sport on Thursday, “The team has spent here 12 days tutoring cricket playing skills in local schools and orphanage centres in the country with the help of local cricket association,”“Apart from playing our role in developing cricket, we also use this opportunity to encourage them to protect themselves against HIV and AIDS and encourage them to go for testing and talk about this deadly disease,” added Williams.Over 1000 children have been trained in different secondary schools and centers which were visited in Kigali, Muhanga, Ruhango, Gitarama and Musanze.Cricket Without Boundaries has donated 14 massive cricket bags to schools in bid to further develop the sport in Rwanda.The equipment include 50 cricket bats, over 300 balls, pads and practice nets.Cricket Without Boundaries, which seeks to increase its work on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention as a delivery partner for the ICC THINKWISE programme, have been spreading cricket game in the country for the last five years.Since its formation in 2005, CWB has become one of the world’s leading Cricket Development and AIDS awareness charities. It is dedicated to helping, educating and developing local communities around the world through the spread and growth of cricket. It is about personal empowerment, both for adults and for children.Working primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa it has sent projects to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia. In the process, CWB has coached tens of thousands of children in some of the poorest communities in the world as well as training several thousand adults to become ICC qualified cricket coaches.

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Cricket Without Boundaries takes sport to local schools