Times Of Swaziland: CABRINI PLAYS CRICKET

CABRINI PLAYS CRICKET
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By Multimedia on 26/08/2014 07:00:00


Cricket Mbabane has once again contributed immensely to the development of the
game in the country by honouring an invitation to a faith based orphanage in the
Lubombo region, Cabrini Ministries, at St Phillips.
CABRINI MINISTRIES
Cabrini Ministries has programmes of which one of them provides a comprehensive
care for 82 children who live at the hostel during the school year and return to
live with their guardians over the term breaks. They also provide educational
support in the form of school fees, uniforms, books, health screening, to name a
few for the 134 children who live in the community. Cabrini started holding
camps during the term breaks four years ago to provide targeted life skills,
psychosocial and sports based programming for both pre-teen and teenagers.
PRE-TEEN CAMP
Beth Kickert, the head of operation at Cabrini, invited Cricket Mbabane,
courtesy of the Parking lot Cricket programme, for the sports day on August 21
to introduce the game to the children under the age of 13. Eight members of the
team travelled to the lowveld ultimately to play and enjoy cricket with the
children. In a formal set-up, the 45 children were taught how to play a match
with the aid of videos.
Delisa Malinga, the team coach and operations manager, headed the team and
facilitated the proceedings. In teaching the game the children were taught life
skills and the importance of sport in their lives and that it should be of
priority to keep the body healthy as it denotes a healthy mind, so is the theme
of the camp on the sports day, ‘Healthy body/ Healthy mind.’
MOTIVATION
Paluku Muzamu, a Waterford student and member of the team, motivated the
children on how cricket helped him attain confidence in life and was followed by
Lindelwa Manana who shared directly to the girls how she loves sports and how it
is related to education and mentioned careers in sports on the academics’
regard.
Sibongiseni Dlamini, recently from Zambia with the under-19s team, also shared
on his travels and making new friends and interacting in general.
After lunch the campers were then taken to the field for a practical showing of
the game and get everyone playing.
Cricket Mbabane used the mini-cricket equipment in carrying out the most fun
part of the initiative.
Four groups were created and each group had two instructors for an hour and then
later the groups namely, Kilos, Winners, Campers and Wild Cats locked horns in
semi-finals, 3rd and 4th place play-offs and the final of which the Wild Cats
won. Excitement was the order of the day.
UPCOMING TEEN CAMP
This was the Pre-teen Camp and the team will head down to St Phillips again on
September 4, 2014 for the Teen Camp to do the same, celebrate their beloved game
by sharing it with Cabrini.
With the help of the Cricket Association the team donated mini-cricket
equipment.