Sport for Life! chosen as ICC social legacy partner for ICC WT20

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The ICC has announced that it has chosen Sport for Life! Caribbean to be its partner to provide a social legacy from ICC WT20 2010, as part of the global Think Wise partnership.

Located in Test Cricket Grounds in Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago, the Sport for Life! Caribbean Learning Centres are providing sport, education and healthy lifestyle training to thousands of disadvantaged children aged 10-16 who are failing to reach their potential at school and in society.

The project is supported by a group of senior sporting Ambassadors, including some of the Caribbean?s greatest cricketing role models, Joel Garner and Sir Viv Richards as well as current players Darren Sammy. The England Cricket Team, will also attend a coaching session organised by Sport for Life! Caribbean in the run up to the start of the ICC WT20.

Each Sport for Life! Learning Centre has a state-of-the-art IT suite equipped with 20 computers and a whiteboard with projector. Children come to the Centres and have additional lessons in maths, English, ICT, science and healthy lifestyle training, as well as cricket coaching provided in association with National Cricket Associations.

Sport for Life! Caribbean is supported by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in addition to the International Cricket Council.

Haroon Lorgat, Chief Executive, ICC, said: "The ICC?s support of Sport for Life! as our partner to provide a social legacy from the ICC World Twenty20 2010, recognises the important role that sport can play in inspiring young people. The project is able to help children raise their literacy and numeracy standards by motivating them to learn in an innovative classroom environment. It also provides young people with important advice on how to live a healthy lifestyle and protect themselves from HIV."

Lord Richard Newby, Chair, Sport for Life! International said: "We are delighted that Sport for Life! has been chosen by the ICC to play such an important role in its social legacy programme in the Caribbean. We are now able to consolidate Sport for Life! in its existing four countries and expand as planned to a further two in the next year. This has been an enormous boost to add to the support we have received from the England & Wales Cricket Board".

Steve Elworthy, Director of Marketing and Communications, England & Wales Cricket Board said: "The England and Wales Cricket Board is very proud to support this initiative which combines sport, education and healthy lifestyle training in a structured programme delivered by qualified teachers and coaches. It shows that the power of sport can inspire children and young adults to make a success of their lives. The England team will also be lending its support to the programme and we are delighted to have been invited to participate in such a progressive and positive campaign as Sport for Life!."