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Sports Coaching - Gap-Year-Kenya - Africa and Asia Venture

Sports Coaching

Where?

Beyond the grassy Masai Plains and the escarpments of the Great Rift Valley, and high above Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, lie the rolling hills of the Uasin Gishu Plateau and the lush mint-fresh tea estates of Western Kenya. A mix of Kenya's vibrant and friendly indigenous tribes farm livestock and tea - trading their products in the region's colourful markets. At sunrise and sunset you will see the dusty roads lined with hundreds of uniformed children in ‘crocodiles' heading to and from school.

Outline Experience

4 Days	10 - 12 weeks	About 3 weeks	6 Days
orientation in the Great Rift Valley	teaching in selected rural schools in the Western Uplands of Kenya	independent group travel in East Africa	Wildlife Safari

You will be part of a group of AVs teaching or coaching sport in Kenya. You will work and have fun with the rest of the group. Your responsibilities will be for PE and sports coaching with, perhaps, some academic teaching should you want it, whereas theirs will be for academic subjects with some sports as an optional extra.

What and Why?

In many schools in Kenya sport is not very well organised mainly because of lack of equipment and facilities. Your contribution to help improve the sporting ethos of the school will mean a massive amount.

Any sports equipment you can bring will help enormously. Think about competing against schools coached by other AVs; organising inter-staff matches; possibly introduce new sports - they will all be loved!

When not on the sports field you may be invited to help the school in other ways, either in the classroom or in extra-curricular activities.

You will also learn so much that is new. Kiswahili, cooking African dishes, traditional tribal customs, how to travel on ‘boda bodas' - and to spend large parts of every day laughing a lot!

Most schools also have a basic netball/basketball/volleyball court. They also enjoy rugby - especially those who have had AV coaches before. In short, if you want to teach or coach a particular sport, just let us know and we will try to ensure that you are in the right place!

Gap Year Living

You and your AV partner (we take care to pair you with someone we think you'll get on with) - will live in a staff house within or close to the school grounds. This will be your home, where you will live, prepare your coaching lessons, cook, clean, entertain and sleep for 12 weeks. You will become very jealous of your new home and love it more than anything you have lived in to date - for some reason, every AV we've had has said so! AV will give you a living allowance for buying everything you need to survive from the local market produce or nearest town.

Gap Year Travel

You will be very sad to wave goodbye to your sporting protégés. You will have made many friends and shared their ups and downs both on the sports field and within their communities. You will have become one of them.

The next phase of your AV adventure is 4 weeks of travel and safari which should make leaving a little easier. This is your chance to discover East Africa. There's Zanzibar's or Mombasa's beaches; visit the lakes; go and sit with the gorillas in Bwindi's rain forests; climb Mt Kenya; try a camel safari in Laikipia; or how about white- water-rafting, quad biking or a bungee over the Nile?

Gap Safari

Finally, before you head off home or on to more destinations, we send you and your group on AV's amazing 6-day safari. See the ‘Big Five' in 2 of Kenya's best-known wildlife parks and camp under the stars in the bush. Sundowners with Tusker beer and tall stories well into the night...

We have found that very many of our AVs return to Africa - some over and over again. We say that "Once an AV, always an AV!" What this means is that you will be joining an exclusive club that will always be pleased to see you in again in Africa and will be there for you to help out if you ever get into difficulties.

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