Are you cleaning out the shed or sports lockers?
One Dunsborough family has begun collecting old and unwanted cricket equipment so they can transport the gear to a new cricketing clinic which has been established in the eastern African country of Tanzania.
The Dagg family recently returned home to Western Australia after working in Tanzania for 18 months as teacher trainers through Australian Volunteers.
One of the sports teachers Gary Dagg worked with in Tanzania had introduced a cricket program there and had already run a few cricket camps and coaching clinics.
Mr Dagg said there were no facilities to play cricket in Tanzania and there were no available resources whatsoever.
“The children have a huge amount of talent and there is an interest in Tanzania now to play cricket, but they have nothing to play with,” Mr Daggs said.
He said he was hoping, since it was the start of the cricket season, that people and regional cricket clubs might be checking their old gear and “chucking stuff out” to replace with new equipment.
“I would like to collect it, anything would be appreciated to be transported over to Tanzania at the end of the year,” he said.
“Anything that looks a bit old and scraggly would be really highly valued there and equipment for any age would be grateful, we would like mostly children’s stuff but adults is okay too.”
Anyone who has cricket gear they are keen to donate to the Tanzanian Cricket Drive can email daggs@windrootrails.com and Mr Daggs will arrange for collection of donated items.
Alternatively, it can be dropped off at Cape Naturaliste College, where Ms Daggs is employed.