Volunteers are needed to take part in a two-week trip to help transform lives by coaching cricket and delivering much needed health related messages.

Derek Bloomfield, a volunteer with the sports development charity, Cricket Without Boundaries, visited Kenya in October last year with the group, and is urging others join the autumn 2017 and spring 2018 to Africa.

The trip will take a team of six-eight volunteers to Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.

This 2017 project includes working with local schools, delivery of HIV and FGM awareness messages, training coaches, umpires and scorers and acting as a representative of Cricket Without Boundaries within local communities.

Mr Bloomfield, who visited Kenya in October last year with the charity, said: “I found it a wonderfully enriching experience.

"The combination of introducing the wonderful game of cricket to African school children, reinforcing the AIDS/HIV health message and the opportunity for adventure was too good to pass up.

“Our two weeks in Kenya were very busy, we visited 25 schools and coached over 5000 children. We were welcomed enthusiastically wherever we went.

"So if you have an adventurous spirit, enjoy travel and would like to meet some dedicated and inspiring people I would encourage you to consider volunteering for Cricket Without Boundaries."

In the last ten years, Cricket Without Boundaries has coached over 250,000 children in nine African countries and helped raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and FGM in communities through cricket.