Along with 4 other Northumbria University students who have been selected to travel to Lusaka, Zambia this summer to engage in a sport development project. Northumbria University forms part of the Wallace group which was established in 2005 bringing together 6 of the UK’s leading sporting universities; Bath, Durham, Loughborough, Northumbria , UWIC and Stirling to work on strategic international sport development projects. In 2011 the group was also joined by St. Andrews University.

 

The Wallace group works in partnership with UK Sport to deliver the Zambia IDEALS project (International Development, Education and Leaderships through Sport). This community project based in the capital city, Lusaka, utilises the skills of students to engage with children and young people through the delivery of physical activity and sport to educate about HIV/AIDS. We will be coaching football, basketball, netball and volleyball.

 

Here is a link to our project:

 

http://nusportcentral.com/community/zambia-ideals-project

 

Our Facebook group, showing how we are raising our money:

 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/315450985165668/

 

To raise my personal goal I have organised dress as you like days at my old high school. My dad is going to skydive in the next few months. When I am out in Zambia I am going to do the bungee jump at the Victoria Falls Bridge above the Zambezi River. And yes, this is the same one where the cord snapped and the women went straight into the crocodile-infested water (Danger money?).

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16459489

 

Finally, in September I am participating in the Great North Run, all 13.1 miles of it.

 

So please dig deep and donate as much or as little as possible

 

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/sport/downham-market-trip-to-zambia-for-tom-a-good-sport-1-3670451