the first training sessions

This afternoon the intrepid travellers set forth for the first of the coaching sessions planned with local schoolchildren.

Driving across Dar makes one realise how fortunate we are to be up on the peninsular for our base of operations. Ian, who runs the HELM operation here works from home in a property sandwiched between Embassy Residences.

In all, thirty boys aged 12 - 14 came along and had an afternoon of passing drills, attack and defence and a couple of games of Tag Rugby (played by boys to learn skills before going into full contact).

We had a great a good two and a half hour session which the chaps all enjoyed and some fabulous pictures of the coaching team in their Tribal HELM finery and the players will, I hope be good enough for the promotion of Foundation Fortnight.

Big thanks to Shimbani, one of the lads who was our interpreter for the afternoon and who looked genuinely thhrilled to have earned a Tribal Foundation T shirt for his trouble, to Chris, Chairman of the Dar Leopards, who organised the session and took hundreds of pictures (including one of Quirkie getting skinned by a 12 year old on the wing), to Atilla, the sports master at the school for the loan of his field.