The tour was hosted by Manchester Academy and the Rainbows took part in the Manchester Festival in June 2011.  Please click here for a diary of the boys week.

Rainbow Sport and Cultural Community Club
Rudolph Jack, founder of Rainbow Sport and Cultural Community, started the club in 1985 as a community based sport and cultural organisation with the specific objective of using sport and rugby in particular as a means of keeping at risk youth away from a life of crime and drugs.

"The social and legacy impact of Rainbow participating in the Touraid festival is immeasurable and intensely profound. Consider the fact that was it not for rugby and the effort of Rainbow the alternative facing these young children are challenging. The experience of seeing another country and meeting and making new friends opens a world of new possibilities for the Rainbow players.
Words can and will never do justice to the paradigm shift and life changing vision. They will see and experience a different world. One that for them can be possible. They learn that with hard work, discipline and big dreams anything is possible.

Crime and poverty has the potential to stifle self esteem and childhood. The touraid festival allows the kids form Rainbow to enjoy being a child again away from the stresses and problems of very day life in their communities.

Importantly it also gives credibility and reality to the message expounded by Rudolph Jack and his organisation: A message that strives to lead young men and women on a constructive and progressive journey.
Supporting Rainbow will pay dividends not for one week but FOR A LIFETIME.
Without the support of touraid and their trustees the young children of Rainbow will not be able to travel to the UK.’

Brian Lewis, Hon Sec Gen, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee.

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