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Coventry Inspires Tag Rugby with Kit and New Schools

on Aug 18 in Events, News, Uganda tagged by RuckinRugby

By Dorothy Nekesa

The Coventry Sports Foundation working with Coventry’s 2012 opportunities team to develop an international connection as part of its work within the local 2012 partnership left a smile on faces of many little kids using sports as a vehicle. The Tag Rugby Trust and children from five schools off the program benefitted from the introduction to the game along with full kit.

The schools from Rubaga division include Bright future, Kiddawalime, Natete Muslim, Mutundwe Church of Uganda and Family primary schools lifting the number of Tag Rugby playing schools in Kampala to thirty.

The help also stretched to 50 extra balls that were given to the Tag Rugby Kampala office and Schools Rugby Chairman Ronnie Mutebi through the Uganda Rugby union Chairman William Blick.

Coventry has been working to develop a sports development and water themed partnership between Coventry and Kampala a partnership that is founded in the twinning of schools between the two cities and expands well beyond this into a range of community and agency partnerships.

A few weeks ago the group celebrated the ‘one year to go’ mark with a mini Olympics festival in Kampala where teaching and student representative teams from the twin schools in conventry journeyed to Kampala to stage a huge Olympic themed sports festival for the five twin schools in Kampala. The festival involved 1,200 children in a sports tournament and a series of upskilling workshops that were delivered with games teachers in Kampala. Africa Inspires (http://www.covsf.com/about-us/csf-in-the-news/africa-inspires-schools-project.html) has recently launched a website which contains information on the objectives of the project, galleries, media and partner links on the 2012 scheme.

We hope we can continue to build on their great work.