Hana’a Al Khaldi is a Project Officer at Right To Play in Jordan. In 2018, she was part of a group of staff from Right To Play who trained as a coach with Cricket Without Boundaries, with the aim of going on to build the capacity of local teachers to use cricket games to promote refugee inclusion and deliver fun literacy and numeracy lessons. Cricket-based games continue to be used in Jordan to this day.
“During the application of cricket as a way to improve the educational environment in Jordanian public schools, we had success in increasing the engagement of children and youth in the sport, and gaining the interest of teachers and academic practitioners in adopting cricket as a sport for educational purposes.
Most children and youth who learnt how to play the sport became excited by how quickly they could understand its rules and how dynamic their experience with the sport had been. Beneficiaries included refugee children from the nearby region, as well as Jordanian children in host communities.
Education providers were also interested in how flexible the sport was to suit their needs, including its ability to apply gamification of varied academic subjects, its accessibility in most physical spaces, and the ease in which the equipment could be maintained.
Additionally, cricket as an educational tool had been applied for the benefit of Palestinian refugee students which reside within camp settings. As a natural progression from these successes, in Spring 2023 we will support United Nations funded schools (UNRWA) in reaching the goal of applying cricket as a method to improve community cohesion with roughly 5,000 children within eight refugee and host communities participating in our joint programme with CWB.” Volunteer with CWB to help us find the next Hana and start their cricketing journey, while also using the sport as a platform for positive social change.
Volunteer with CWB to help us find the next Hana and start their cricketing journey, while also using the sport as a platform for positive social change.
Our proposed dates for Autumn 2023 projects are as follows:
- Rwanda - 23 Sept - 7 Oct
- Uganda - 30 Sept - 14 Oct
- Kenya - 30 Sept - 14 Oct
- Nepal - Full for 2023 but Spring 2024 available
We are also looking for volunteers for our 2024 projects.
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