Gaza tennis tournament: helping people with disability integrate through sports

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Gaza tennis tournament: helping people with disability integrate through sports

18-07-2012

A tennis championship for people with disabilities has been organized in the Gaza Strip by a project funded by the European Union. The event, implemented by the advocacy committee for the rights and needs of people with disability in the Gaza Strip, was aimed at encouraging and focusing disabled people’s talents on productive activities like team oriented sports, which help them live a healthy and productive lifestyle and integrate into their social surroundings.

The Championship was held in in cooperation with a number of a disabled sport clubs and the main rehabilitation associations in the Gaza Strip: the Jabaliha Rehabilitation Society, National Rehabilitation Society, Al Amal Rehabilitation Society, Deir Al Balah Society for Rehabilitation, and Nusseirat Rehabilitation Society, in addition to Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children (ASDC).

Naim Kabaja, ASDC Director, said this initiative was a great support to encourage people with a disability to take on roles across sporting activities, in a bid to help them strengthen their self-esteem and their abilities to overcome the negative perceptions of people with disabilities in society.

The project “Improving the Socio-Economic Status of People with Disabilities in the Gaza Strip within an Inclusive Development Approach” is co-funded by the European Union and CBM, Germany. (EU Neighbourhood Info)

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