Stories
Please take a look at the stories and achievements
Please take a look at the stories and achievements
Richard Lynn's Kenyan diary
Andy Ryan's story
Richard Lynn's Kenyan diary........
Nairobi at dawn – and a palpable sense of excitement amongst seven bleary-eyed travellers. Months of planning and fundraising have now got a tangible purpose: this is it.
We are all very different people – two lawyers, a retail store manager, an insurance broker, a theatre manager, a deputy head and an ECB development officer – drawn together by a love of cricket, a sense of adventure, and a belief in the value of health education in a country significantly afflicted by HIV/AIDS. At 50 I'm the eldest by two years - a source of disappointment, to me at least: I'd estimated one of the others to be older.
Customs and Immigration takes an eternity for those who've elected to pick up their visas in Kenya. No matter: having obtained mine in the UK, I'm able to use the 90 minutes or so to reclaim the team's baggage. And there's plenty of it: over 50 kilos of cricket equipment, around 300 anti-AIDS shirts, and some cricket shirts, donated by a sports shop, that we shall later use for prizes. bring them food and kind words, but also to show .......... download the diary to read more
Nairobi at dawn – and a palpable sense of excitement amongst seven bleary-eyed travellers. Months of planning and fundraising have now got a tangible purpose: this is it.
We are all very different people – two lawyers, a retail store manager, an insurance broker, a theatre manager, a deputy head and an ECB development officer – drawn together by a love of cricket, a sense of adventure, and a belief in the value of health education in a country significantly afflicted by HIV/AIDS. At 50 I'm the eldest by two years - a source of disappointment, to me at least: I'd estimated one of the others to be older.
Customs and Immigration takes an eternity for those who've elected to pick up their visas in Kenya. No matter: having obtained mine in the UK, I'm able to use the 90 minutes or so to reclaim the team's baggage. And there's plenty of it: over 50 kilos of cricket equipment, around 300 anti-AIDS shirts, and some cricket shirts, donated by a sports shop, that we shall later use for prizes. bring them food and kind words, but also to show .......... download the diary to read more
Richard Lynn is a deputy head teacher at Bluecoat school in Harborne, Birmingham. This was Richard's first CWB trip. Richard is also one of CWB's star fundraisers raising over £8,000 in the last year alone!
