uLesson Partners Free Cricket Camp for Kids

Leading EdTech App, uLesson was a major part of the three-day Cricket Camp that held simultaneously at the Tafawa Balewa Cricket Oval in Lagos, and the Moshood Abiola ‘Package B’ Cricket Oval in Abuja last week, with Nigeria’s premium cricket blog, The Middle Stump as the facilitators.

The camps taught kids on the three key skills of the game; Batting, Bowling and Fielding alongside other life skills, between Monday August 23rd and Wednesday August 25th and had the backing of the Nigeria Cricket Federation.

Tayo Sowole, Vice President, Distribution and Marketing at uLessson, said “we see strong correlation between physical activity and the mental readiness of kids to learn.

“Investing in sports and education fits perfectly into our purpose. Physical well-being is a foundational part of knowledge building.”

According to him, “the number of children we had and the excitement shown by the kids at the different centers speaks volume to openness of the kids to new learning, especially ones that grows their psychomotor skills. This to us is very crucial hence our resolve to back the initiative.”

One of the coaches at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos Centre, Ruth Ayonnaike-Lamina praised the effort of all the parties that put the Summer Cricket Camp together saying, it had a strong impression on the kids especially those that were coming in contact with the sport for the very first time.

Olumide Akintokun, The middlestump’s coordinator for the event says that Cricket in Nigeria and the recent upward trajectory that the immediate past executive committee of the Nigeria Cricket Federation had helped the sport gain, leaves stakeholders with no choice than to band together with them to promote it further.