Hello all again, If you are going to Open Nationals this weekend and have a spare disc you are not doing much with, bring it to Nationals and give it to Daniel Cozens, #27, from TRIGGER HAPPY, he kindly offered to collect discs for me. Eventually they will end up in Africa to help the sport grow over there. More details in my precedent email below.
Many thanks to those who already gave me some discs last weekend in Southampton, between the old ones and some new ones I have gathered a good 15 discs who will keep the players in Bangui, Central African Republic, playing for a little while, so cheers for that. Some of you are posting me some and some will be in touch later as well, that's all good, thanks a lot. Thanks also for some ideas and comments - I do want to do more things for the sport in Africa now that I started a bit - If you have suggestions or know about other african initiatives, please let me know, I will start gathering concepts and people. Spread the love, Rodrigue, Thundering Herd. 2008/8/29 Rodrigue Dufaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > Quite a few of us will at Mixed Nationals this weekend, and I was wondering > if you had discs you were not using anymore you would be willing to give > away. > > I travelled to Central African Republic last March and took 20 discs with > me, started and trained 6 teams in total in 3 different neighbourhoods of > the capital, Bangui, did also some sessions with kid streets in an NGO. > Everybody absolutely loved it and they were fast learners! > > The day I left we organised a tourney on proper grass pitches, 5 aside with > 2 subs, 6 teams, we had some music on the pitches and some drinks, it was > great. With a strong football influence and neighbourhood pride, spirit was > actually the hardest thing, and respecting the rules but I left them with > great enthusiasm and 20 discs between 4 captains, which at the time wasn't > much to run a practice. > > Since then I haven't really been in touch with them all but I know they are > still playing and that the discs are worn out so I am planning on shipping > them some discs. There is a DHL office in Bangui, it'll be easy. > > So, if you have a disc to give away you can take with you to Southampton, > I'll be glad to collect it and prepare the shipment, it'll be a nice boost > for them in Bangui! > > I will be playing with Thundering Herd in the Nationals tourney, my name is > Rodrigue, Rod, you'll find me. > Thinking out loud, as an alternative you could probably leave them at the > tournament central but I haven't asked them for their approval, until now! > So I'll give you an update on this once they get back to me. > > If you could drop me a line saying you will bring a disc for Africa, it > would be great, I'll have an idea on numbers and how much discs I will have > to carry back home with me, I might take an extra bag to do so. > > Thanks a lot in advance, any comments, ideas welcome. > > Rodrigue > PS: I have some pictures I am meant to put on a website somewhere but never > had time to upload them... > -- London: +447817985572 Learn to fly - Play Ultimate! _______O __-- __/ \_ Please consider the environment before printing this email __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
