DISABILITY SPORTS WORKSHOPS FOR DISABLED PERSONS IN INDIA
Workshops on Wheelchair Basketball and Boccia being held in five locations in India this month
New Delhi, 7th December 2014: The
Wheelchair Basketball Federation of India, in collaboration with Choice
International, the International Red Cross and other partners, is
conducting workshops on Wheelchair Basketball and Boccia for disabled
persons in five locations in India from 5th-24th December 2014.
The
workshops are free of cost and are being conducted by international
coaches from around the world. Mr. Mark Walker from Australia, Mr. Jess
from the USA, Mr. Mike from Nepal, Mr. Manoj Soma from the United
Kingdom and Mr. Aram Voerman from the Netherlands are the international
coaches involved in this initiative. Former Captain of the Indian
National Basketball Team and Asian All-Star, Mr. Jayasankar Menon, is
also extending his support to the initiative.
The workshops were inaugurated at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC) in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi on the 5th of December 2014. The Chairman of the ISIC, Maj. HPS Ahluwalia was present at the inauguration and said, “While
Wheelchair Basketball is one of the leading international paralympic
sports, it is hardly played in our country. We need to promote the sport
not only to create professional sportspersons but also for
rehabilitating people with disability.”
The
workshops aim to increase awareness on the positive impact of
disability sports, specifically Wheelchair Basketball and Boccia, among
disabled persons in India. The workshops specifically target the
disabled persons, coaches, community leaders, referees, physiotherapists
interested in disability sports. The organisers seek to use disability
sports as a tool to promote equality and access to disabled persons and
also, to develop and train disabled sportspersons to enable them to
compete at national and international disability sports tournaments.
The
workshops will cover various areas on Wheelchair Basketball such as the
fundamentals (basic basketball skills with an introduction to the rules
of the game), contact, stretching, basic chair skills, ball handling
and passing.
The
workshops will be rounded off by a mini-tournament in Chennai with the
best wheelchair basketball players selected from the workshops competing
against each other.
The schedule for the workshops and the tournament is provided in the attached flyer.
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