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Uganda Little League Baseball
Developing Little League Baseball throughout Uganda
Serving over 15,000 children sharing about 700 gloves, we
could use your help, join us.
Supported by
303 Development
Foundation Corp.
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Schedule Of Events At Complex - 2012
| May 19th - 22nd |
Boys 13-14 year old |
Game Schedule Completed At Complex |
| May 15th - 18th |
Boys 11-12 year old |
Game Schedule Completed At Complex |
| May 8th - 13th |
Girls 11-12 year old |
Game Schedule Completed At Complex |
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Funds Are Needed
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Cost |
Funded |
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Complex of 3 full
size and 3 Little League/Softball fields |
$ 500,000.00 |
$ 500,000.00 |
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School for Academic &
Sports - Emphasis on Baseball & Softball |
$4,000,000.00 |
$1,000,000.00 |
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- School will accommodate 1500 students
located at Little League Complex |
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Click here to read why Uganda needs this
school |
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Finish fields 3, 4 & 5 |
$ 150,000.00 |
$0.00 |
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Fence, backstop and dugout
fields 1-5 |
$ 200,000.00 |
$0.00 |
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303 Development Foundation Corp. |
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Jay Shapiro's Blog on filming baseball in Uganda at
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Uganda Makes
Little League Baseball History
July 16, 2011 -
Uganda Wins in Kutno
Coach George Mukhobe,
left, and Richard Stanley, far right, with
the Rev. John
Foundation Little League baseball team in Poland
April 2012:
Great progress has
been made in Uganda over the past month at all levels of baseball and
softball. We will be hosting our annual Uganda Little League National
tournaments this May. We will have 5 or 6 11-12 year old teams coming to
play for the right to travel to Poland to play in the Middle East/Africa
tournament which will be held during the middle of July. That will be
followed by the 13-14 tournament. Both these will be preceded by the
girls 11-12 program which we hope will have a competitive team traveling
to their tournament in Italy. Getting visas to Italy will be a lot
easier than getting the visas for Poland as the Italian Embassy is
located in Kampala while the Polish Embassy is located in Kenya. For the
first time, the boys program will have a team from Gulu and a chief
umpire from Canada. Chuck has informed us that after his visit in
January, he would like to return in May. He will now be a chief
tournament umpire.
We really made
history late in March. After our meeting with the Uganda Commissioner of
Sports on one day followed by a meeting with the Uganda Country Director
of the Peace Corps, a three way meeting was set for a Tuesday afternoon
at the Commissioner's office. This is where I believe history was made.
The mission of the Peace Corps in Uganda is to spread sport programs in
the schools, which is exactly what the Commissioner's Sports School
program intends to do, and a number of those schools will feature
baseball and softball. What was agreed to at the meeting is that when
the first 32 schools start in 2013, There will be six of those schools
playing baseball and 4 playing softball. Each with at least a 4 team
league playing a full schedule of games at the S1 and S2 level and
slowly advancing to the S3 and S4 level and then to the S5 and S6 level
over time. Starting in the April-May 2013 time period, each of these
schools will come to the complex at government expense to play for the
National Secondary School Championships. The Peace Corps will assign
newly in country volunteers with a background in Physical Education
training to these baseball/softball schools to teach the teachers to
become coaches and oversee the programs at each school. The schools may
also have as many as two Peace Corps volunteers to also assist in track,
soccer, and basketball. The government will be supplying funds for these
programs in terms of pay, equipment and facilities. The Peace Corps
Volunteers will do their in country training at the Little League
Complex in November.
In January, the
schools will be sending the future baseball and softball teacher/coaches
to the complex along with their designated Peace Corp Volunteers to be
trained on playing, coaching and umpiring the game of baseball and
softball. Between some of the other programs that want to join the
Uganda Little League program, we expect that we will be housing about
100 future coaches for our two week January program. The Sports
Commissioner's Secondary School program officially launches right after
our two week training program, but working with him, we already have a
softball school and a baseball school operating this year. When 2013
comes, those 32 schools will represent only 25% of the final number of
Sport Schools. Thus, this will be a joint program of Little League
Baseball, The Peace Corps and the Uganda Sports Commissioner to expand
baseball and softball all over Uganda over the next couple of years.
Two other
significant events happened in March. A College Baseball player from
California came to Uganda in early March He is staying until late May in
the Jinja area helping to train Little League Baseball and softball
players in Jinja and Lugazi. In addition, a gentleman from Taiwan
arrived about 2 weeks ago with the intention of staying for several
years and using that time to develop baseball players. Working with the
Commissioner, he will be working at one of the Sport Schools monitoring
and training coaches and players on how to play baseball. Both of these
travelers have come on their own at their own expense. We will do our
best to make their time in Uganda a most rewarding experience. They will
both be at the complex during our tournaments.
Medical:
Uganda Cancer Research Center has been formally registered in Uganda.
We have an agreement to establish the center to cure prostate cancer as
soon as we can build the building and obtain the staff. We already have
the land with power and water at the site. To do that, we are now
searching for a grant of $1,000,000. Once that grant is obtained, we
expect the building to be finished in 6 months time. The HIFU company
will supply the instrument to cure the prostate cancer as soon as the
building is ready. Esaote will send the mammogram machine and the hand
held ultra sound instrument that they have already donated. If we get a
grant for additional money, we will begin to do breast examinations and
needle biopsies. The
Techniscan instruments are expected to be ready by
early 2012. In order to install them and set up the communications and
computer network will take an additional 2.5 million in grant money.
That money would allow us to do the breast examinations and breast
cancer treatments at no cost for the women for 5 years. We now need the
grant money.
 The
Trenton Thunder supplied the hats and shirts that the team wore
in Poland. The Trenton team was rooting for them to win so that they could
come to the U.S. and visit the Trenton stadium and be introduced to the
media and the crowd at a Trenton Thunder ball game. Uganda would
have been the first African Little League team to make it to the
Little League World Series in its almost 80 year history.
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