NBDO Golden Kiloko and AYAD Ryan Burns have returned from their 1 week visit to Bellona in Renbel province. During their time they inspected the recently constructed basketball court and ran workshops including coaching, refereeing, scorebench and playing. The workshops were a huge success with an overwhelming response from the local people as more than 40 particpants attended each course, it was more than double what was anticipated. SIBF also donated 10 new basketballs to the newly started association in Bellona to get them rolling.

"We are really impressed with the level of interest and enthusiasm from all the particpants, they really love their basketball and it was a real pleasure to come and assist them. The standard of play, coaching, scoring and refereeing has clearly improved over the week, and will no doubt make a big impact on the standard of play for the the Avaiki Provincial Games starting on the 6th December" said AYAD Ryan Burns on the final day of the workshop.

The particpants were tired from their big week, but on the final afternoon mustered enough energy to put into practice a fully timed professional basketball match so that they could put their newly acquired skills into action. NBDO Golden Kiloko was most impressed with the standard and improvements of the refereeing saying that "there are definetly some skilled basketball people here, and I hope that they continue to improve as basketball will be all the better for it."