On February 21, MCC Foundation set off to Rwanda and Uganda to visit its East African cricket projects. The MCC Men’s touring team joined them for the Rwanda leg of the trip to play the National Team sides and coach some of MCCF’s beneficiaries.
MCCF works in Rwanda and Uganda with Cricket Without Boundaries and the Rwandan and Ugandan Cricket Associations as partners, helping to promote cricket across the region and to use it as a platform to transform young lives.
More than 1,900 cricket sessions were delivered across Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya with MCCF support last year, which amounted to over 4,700 hours of coaching with the total attendances at those sessions of over 100,000. In these countries which have witnessed war, and which are both designated by the UN as amongst the Least Developed Countries in the world, we saw how cricket can bring unity, joy, hope and opportunity. We are supporting the Cricket Associations in both countries to build their grassroots cricket, bridge the gap between grassroots cricket and the professional game and in time, to climb the ICC world rankings.
It was a truly humbling visit. We travelled to many schools, saw hundreds of children being coached and received a fantastic welcome wherever we went. What will stay with us most of all was the sheer joy the cricket brings to young people who face significant challenges in their lives, and we are so grateful to all those generous people who have supported us to make this happen. We also saw first-hand, the power that a combined MCC/MCCF tour can have and how we might develop that in the future to maximise the impact of all we do.
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