Six Salesforce.com volunteers from London and Toronto, one Salesforce.com Foundation staff, together with two staff from the Tag Rugby Development Trust www.trdt.co.uk from Uganda and one female international rugby player from Uganda, spent a week at St.Martin's Girls'; School in the Kibagare slum just outside Nairobi, Kenya.

After being greeted with uplifting song and dance at Sunday morning Mass, Deanna and Stephanie from Toronto, Amanda, Vijay, Martin, Joanna and Isabel from London, Christine, Stesh and Denis from Uganda, felt welcomed as very special guests of the school.

All lessons were cancelled for the week as head teacher Sister Florentina Ndeke, deputy head Mr.Benard Nyandieka Akama and the wonderful school teachers and staff devoted the whole week to the program of teaching tag rugby and other activities planned by the volunteers.

Each of the 192 girls at the school, as well as all the teachers, got an opportunity to learn tag rugby (a non-contact version of the sport) over four days, with girls being selected on their ability and sorted into teams for a competition on the final day.

Enormous excitement mounted for the Friday competition, with girls not selected for the final teams acting as rousing cheer-leaders for their schoolmates.

The Kenya Board of Education and School's Board of Governors attended the celebration and picnic, and the awards were presented to the winning team by professional female players from the Kenyan Rugby Football Union.

To ensure that the game will continue to be played in future, 'train the trainer' sessions were run for the sports teachers and other teachers.

The volunteers were joined for the week by seven graduates of St.Martin's School who are now studying at University, sponsored by Salesforce.com employees. Kule, Rose, Mary, Gladys, Catherine, Lilian and Rebecca are testament to the excellent education received at the school and they are working extremely hard at University to ensure that they continue to be successful.

As well as the rugby, the girls at St.Martin's got an opportunity to learn basic IT and social networking from Deanna, Stephanie and Vijay; marketing and branding from Amanda and Rose; how to become a lawyer from Joanna and Kule, and Stesh and Christine from Uganda talked about how they became involved in womens' rugby in Uganda.

Amanda also taught the deputy head, school administrator and school bursar how to create a blog, so that the school's successes in exams, rugby and other areas can be easily shared with their sponsors and supporters.

Sister Florentina, head teacher, wrote after the visit  "The Rugby team is becoming very popular. Last Saturday, the girls had been invited to a match by the Federation. You can't believe it. The one team was position two and the other runner-up. Besides, one of our girls, Maureen Wanjiru Mburu, was voted the best disciplined player. You can's believe what you have brought to my school. The girls are becoming experts day by day. Please, let Martin and the rest know what joy they have brought to my school through Rugby."