It's good to finally be in Moshi via a long and interesting journey which took Burundi, Rwanda and Nairobi.
We wanted to document the people who use sports in their community all year round as they make their way to Tanzania for a tournament that brings together the best in sports for development.
We've seen street children who go to school because they were motivated by a sports organisation in a slum - one which has its own professional team and trains photographers and film-makers too.
We've met a Rwandan team who bring together Hutus, Tutsis and orphaned young people: they come for the football, stay for the English, life skills and computer classes and leave as friends.
We've been to Burundi too - a country where the president used to be a PE teacher and the president makes his staff go for a run every Friday - where Right To Play make sure that young people with disabilities participate equally in sport through sitting volleyball, a sport that's much tougher than it sounds...
Along the way we've been delivering pop up film workshops, and lending cameras to people so they can document their journey to the East Africa Cup. Watch this space for their contributions.
The training programme is underway now, and matches will start this afternoon - the finals will take place on Saturday 25 June in Moshi Memorial Stadium in the market area of Moshi.
(by Nick Raistrick - this is a multi-authored blog on behalf of the East Africa Cup where I am delivering training as part of a BBC World Service Trust training project)
MYSA Kenya, helping street - http://www.mysakenya.org/
CHRISC Rwanda - http://www.chriscrwanda.org/
Right To Play - http://www.righttoplay.com/International/the-team/Pages/Coaches/NzobonankiraBenjamin.aspx
We wanted to document the people who use sports in their community all year round as they make their way to Tanzania for a tournament that brings together the best in sports for development.
We've seen street children who go to school because they were motivated by a sports organisation in a slum - one which has its own professional team and trains photographers and film-makers too.
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| Filming at the Mathare Youth Sports Association library in Nairobi |
We've been to Burundi too - a country where the president used to be a PE teacher and the president makes his staff go for a run every Friday - where Right To Play make sure that young people with disabilities participate equally in sport through sitting volleyball, a sport that's much tougher than it sounds...
Along the way we've been delivering pop up film workshops, and lending cameras to people so they can document their journey to the East Africa Cup. Watch this space for their contributions.
The training programme is underway now, and matches will start this afternoon - the finals will take place on Saturday 25 June in Moshi Memorial Stadium in the market area of Moshi.
(by Nick Raistrick - this is a multi-authored blog on behalf of the East Africa Cup where I am delivering training as part of a BBC World Service Trust training project)
MYSA Kenya, helping street - http://www.mysakenya.org/
CHRISC Rwanda - http://www.chriscrwanda.org/
Right To Play - http://www.righttoplay.com/International/the-team/Pages/Coaches/NzobonankiraBenjamin.aspx
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