Wordsworth’s story: Bhubesi Pride Foundation in Malawi

Back in 2011, Wordsworth Rashid emailed Bhubesi Pride Foundation from Malawi, hoping the charity would bring rugby to one of the Lilongwe-based schools where he supports children with special educational needs.

Today, four years on, Wordsworth is actively using rugby as a tool for life-skills education in four local schools Bhubesi now links with.

Through coaching children and empowering teachers, he’s developing a sustainable programme the charity can build on and use to measure its success.

To help Wordsworth, 43, develop his project management skills, the charity arranged for him to join the Pride in May, travelling into Zambia and Botswana on a life-changing trip. Until this year, he’d never left Malawi. See his story and the charity’s ongoing work contributing to rugby and education development in these particular regions.

Also in this feature, the team visits three schools in Zambia; and G4S Botswana launch a valuable legacy project in Gaborone, where the business significantly improves the facilities and security of a local school.