Dream Cricket Days
In 2023, George Huitker officially partnered with Dream Cricket Australia and Rotary to provide primary school students with special needs or experiencing disadvantage an opportunity to to play a range of cricket-based activities. The sessions are facilitated by empathetic high school-aged mentors and enthusiastic Rotarians.
Mentoring Magic
DreamCricket was initiated by Dr Roly Bigg of the Movement Disorder Foundation in concert with the Rotary Clubs of the Southern Highlands and the Bradman Foundation. The DreamCricket program has grown to encompass schools and children throughout Australia and internationally.
George and his team of volunteers hope to connect any interested school with Dream Cricket Australia and to then facilitate high school mentorship on the day of activities (utilising older students from the same school or supportive nearby high schools) where possible.
Working alongside local Rotary members, George’s volunteer team is made up of university-aged students who have often participated in Dream Cricket programs as mentors in the past. They will often be on hand to assist with the organisation of the activity and prepare, advise and enthuse all participants and high school mentors in what is always an inclusive, inspirational and magical day of cricketing fun for all in attendance..
Putting relationships front and centre of all DreamCricket activity.
A Testimonial
While service-learning in many schools is treated as just another course to be completed, this is never the case when George Huitker is involved… One of the programmes George runs with his Year 9/10 students is Dream Cricket for children aged 6-10 with a disability, whereby his students teach the 6–10 year-olds how they can learn to play a specially modified game of cricket, thereby greatly enhancing their wellbeing and sense of self-respect…
George’s ability to lead and inspire is such that after two hours of activity the Year 9/10s are wholly committed to the programme – to the extent that they invariably come back for more – and the 6-10 year-olds have all adopted the Year 9/10s as elder siblings. The Rotarians and School Staff who invariably participate in these programmes respond in a similarly positive fashion to George’s inspirational leadership. Most importantly he is a man who has the drive and the capacity to inspire in others the need to recognise the many inequalities that afflict our society and which are in our power to remedy.
In recognition of the outstanding contribution that George Huitker has made to DreamCricket in particular and the enhancement of service-learning activities throughout the ACT and region, he was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow award by Rotary International.
— Commodore A J Lyall MBE Royal Navy : Dream Cricket Coordinator for Sunrise Rotary, ACT
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