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Sports For Different Heroes

Sports For Different Heroes

project start date: 01.01.2019

project end date: 31.12.2020

Project Partners

Project coordinator / Greece

HAŠK MLADOST

Project partner / Croatia

Project partner / Cyprus

SD CRVENA ZVEZDA

Project partner / Serbia

SS LAZIO PARACADUTISMO

Project partner / Italy

Project Description

The project aims to raise public awareness and facilitate the social inclusion of people with mental retardation through sport activities. Sports have the ability to transcend cultural and social barriers which make them an excellent means for inclusion and adaptation.

Persons with disabilities face societal barriers and the disability evokes negative perceptions and discrimination in many societies. There is a stigma associated with disability that lead these people to be excluded from education, employment and community life which deprives them of opportunities essential to their social development, health and well-being.

Sport can assist to restrict this stigma and discrimination associated with disability because it can transform community attitudes about these persons. Although the interest of society in the needs of people with disabilities, particularly those with intellectual disabilities, has increased nowadays, several actions are needed to ensure effective social inclusion. As these people cannot defend their rights, there is a need for more actions. This feeling has prompted five European multisport clubs to coordinate and implement this project organizing multisport activities for people with intellectual disabilities.

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THE FOCUS OF THE PROJECT

Sport can assist to restrict the stigma and discrimination associated with disability because it can transform community attitudes about these types of persons.

THE MAIN GOAL

The project aims to raise public awareness and facilitate the social inclusion of people with mental retardation through sport activities

THE AIMS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY

Organising sport activities and dissemination events for integrating and spreading the message about the benefits of sport for people with disabilities

News from the project

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