little league Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:22:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg little league Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Canadian Little Leaguers Travel To Uganda https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/01/31/canadian-little-leaguers-travel-to-uganda/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/01/31/canadian-little-leaguers-travel-to-uganda/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:48:02 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=5136 In the African country of Uganda, there are two million orphans. Nearly half of the children have lost their parents from AIDS, a terrible and widespread disease.

Many children are very poor. Many live in slums.

However, some children in Uganda have found something great that helps them in their lives: playing baseball.

Uganda’s Little League team is very good. So good, in fact, that last year they beat the team that had held the regional championship for 11 years, Saudi Arabia.

It was the first time that an African team had won the regional tournament.

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