Dear Britdisc, You probably have read emails from Discs for All already, about collecting discs to take them to where they were needed. In 2009, 15 of these collected discs in the UK reached Joe Graves (GB player) who got in touch with me as he was going to spend a bit of time there and was willing to start something up there. This initiative still lives on and if you go to Kigali now, you'll be able to train twice a week, on a pretty nice field, with a mixed bunch of people between locals and expats. This bunch is even organising their third Kigali hat tournament this year ! It's in less than a month time, see http://kigali.hattournaments.com/ for more details.
Back in the day, when Joe was trying to get things organised, Fire of London donated £50 to help a team of brand new Rwandan players to go to their first tourney in Kampala (Uganda), the 7 Hills Classic, as you can imagine, it hooked up quite a few of them for life ! Now, we are trying to get some Burundians players to go to their first tourney as well. Ultimate in Burundi is pretty well organised, through schools/universities, which means students with little money. For one student to go to Rwanda and play at the tournament, we need around £30 so we, DFA, is launching a small fundraising campaign. The idea would be to get 10 players over from Burundi to Rwanda, and we think that if everyone chips in, even a small amount, it can be done! *If you, your club, etc. Want to take part and give some money to help making this possible, please drop me a line with your first name + surname, club and amount so that I may quickly give the guys in Burundi a heads up on how much money is being raised, so that they can start organising themselves. The tourney is on Feb. 16th and 17th so not that far away !* *Many thanks in advance - for these players, on top of being their first tourney, it will probably be their only one this year.* DFA is a registered not for profit association in France, to which you can transfer money (bank details (IBAN) at the bottom of this form : http://www.slideshare.net/DisquespourTous/bulletin-dadhsion-disques-pour-tous[don't worry about the French]). Alternatively, and to avoid banking costs, once you've emailed me, I can give you my UK bank account details and you can send the money directly to me, all of this being based on trust of course. I am currently in Kigali for work and will play at the tournament. I will probably host a few Burundians as well. They will borrow money to pay for their bus ticket and I'll hand them the money personally once they are in Kigali. So whichever way you choose for the transfer, rest assured that what you give will go straight to the players, no faff. Please pass on to your players ! Cheers, Rodrigue, Discs for All. PS: For some info about other stuff we've done in the past, see the links below! -- Learn to fly - Play Ultimate! _______O __-- __/ \_ Discs for All: http://fr.flavors.me/discsforall Disques pour Tous / Discs for All - facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discs-For-All-Disques-Pour-Tous/131564060217962?ref=ts#%21/pages/Discs-For-All-Disques-Pour-Tous/131564060217962?ref=ts> Africa: Mali <http://frisbeemali.wordpress.com> http://discforafrica.free.fr/ http://ffindr.com/en/links/international/discs-for-africa 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
