Social inclusion through physical activities
Topic: Sport for people with disability
Request: Concept Note
Duration: 1 day
Brief Description: From UCEC we propose an approach to Goalball. The aim of goalball is to score goals with your hands on the other team’s goal. Teams are composed of three players. It is based on the ear to detect the trajectory of the ball, which carries rattles in it and weighs 1,250 grams. Orientation in space is also important, which is achieved through touch thanks to the lines of the playing field.
The impact of this initiative can be sustainable over time. From one side, in advance, the development of the initiative must make possible to visualize in the host country of the WSG, the CSIT commitment to the development of sports aimed at the disabled. This also means added value to the organization of a prestigious event such as the WSG.
At the same time during the event itself, it must be explained that the initiative is being carried out. A way to do that is with the dissemination of all the collaboration agreements with the local entities / associations of visual disability people signed to do so.
Likewise, as this is an “open” activity that should allow not only WSG participants to practice it, but also the local population, we will be able to increase with more participants the WSG event.
Therefore, this is an action that we can understand as a “corporate responsibility” of the CSIT, but it is also an action that allows synergies with local entities and brings local experiences of exchange with the delegations of the different countries of the WSG.