FOSTERING REVERSE INCLUSION
FOSTERING REVERSE INCLUSION
Ability Sports Africa works with over 230 children with disabilities and their families in Gulu
District Northern Uganda.
On the 6th June 2021 the government of Uganda imposed a second lock down for 42 Days.
This has left many families who have children with disabilities desperately in need of food.
The first lock down in March 2020 has heavily impacted the lives of these children, many of them became malnourished.
Most of our beneficiaries come from poor economic backgrounds.
This is Odoch in the video, a 6 year old boy who has Cerebral Palsy. he has four siblings and lives in Gulu West ( Alokolum Village). The pandemic left his parents jobless, and currently the family depends on support.
Like Odoch’s family, we have identified 40 families who have children with disabilities who are in existential need. We need your help to get them through these trying times.
– A donation of $25 supports a family with 10Kg of Beans, 2 Kg of Sugar and 25kg of Maize Flour.
– A donation of $15 supports a family with 2 liters of cooking oil, 2 KG Salt, 5 bars of soap and 6 reusable face masks.
We are grateful for donations of any size.
THANK YOU!
WE ARE GRATEFUL TO HAVE SUPPORTED 22 FAMILIES OUT OF THE 40 FAMILIES THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING
We are thankful to Save the Children International for contracting Ability Sports Africa to train 40 teachers from 20 schools from Gulu and Amuru Districts in adaptive sports and physical literacy skills, Indeed we will achieve inclusive education in Uganda through the power of adaptive sports.
Due to the Covid-19 crisis many girls with disabilities were affected by the crisis due to the lock down measures imposed by the government of Uganda, everyone is out of business including sports, its important for our players to gain income generating activities which helps them to survive during this COVID-19 crisis in Uganda. We have received funding’s from friends and donors to train 20 girls with Hearing impairment on Beads, Bangles, Necklace and Ear rings. We were able to train 10 more through funding support from Mary Bennell Board of trustee of ETC@PWD on liquid soap production in Gulu District.
We engage children with hearing impairment to enjoy adaptive football in an inclusive sporting environment with their peers without disabilities, hence creating an inclusive sporting programs both in school, refugee settlement and community. it gives them the opportunity for social interaction and physical and health development in community activities. We empower our children with disabilities to enjoy sports by organizing Inclusive sports festival, life skills development, psycho-social support, skills development,creative arts and social well being. We encourage role model athletes who have achieved in the world of sports to engage with our girls and boys in different adaptive sports.
We are grateful to Swiss kanthari Foundation for the funding support to train 15 coaches and teachers from 6 inclusive primary schools, and community clubs within Gulu District, to engage 100 deaf girls in physical literacy and adaptive sports with this grant, we hope to achieve one of our goals of empowering girls with hearing impairment. We strive to promote adaptive sports, creative arts, advocacy and mainstreaming disability sports to help our children with disabilities more especially girls to gain confidence, self-esteem and self effectiveness to leave to their full potential and gain dignity for life.
We are committed in building sports for girls with disabilities (Deaf and Physical) in Uganda, ASA has started a pilot project on wheelchair basketball and stand basketball sporting activities in Northern Uganda a region affected by 20 years war, we are using sports for fan and as a tool for social-Interaction with peers, psycho-social support and for creating social change in the community.
We empower persons with disabilities to take full responsibilities to involve non disabled peers in their daily sporting and physical literacy activities. ASA organizes one festival and competition every year (The Challenge Cup and Adaptive Sports festivals), We do engage our beneficiaries in the following adaptive games Wheelchair basketball,sitting volleyball (physical),Wheelchair Tennis (physical), goal ball for the blind, showdown for the blind, padding, swimming, table tennis, archery, wheelchair racing (cycling),amputee soccer, football (deaf, girls, boys), handball, netball, pool, basketball (deaf), volleyball,tennis,athletics and Creative arts activities such as music dance and drama.
Physical literacy is the motivation an individual has that leads one to become physically competent, enduring, and confident. It also demonstrates knowledge about one’s own physical and mental health. To be physically literate means that you own your well-being through life. We give opportunity to children with disabilities to gain self reliance/daily leaving skills of wheeling, dressing, washing, playing and interacting. Physical literacy gives opportunity to our children to be able to throw an object, hope/jump, run/wheeling, catch/grab and kicking/shooting basing on these activities we shall clearly know what type of games a disabled child can play.
Nyero Foundation and Pass a pad Uganda donated 60 reusable sanitary pads for 15 Ability Sports deaf basketball team players, which is the first deaf basketball team in Uganda, the girls can now play without any obstacle, This has boosted their full participation in sports. and we are really grateful for the donation towards increasing equal participation of girls with disability in Uganda.
How do you feel, if you experience communication barriers? Well we are bridging the gaps of communication through sign language training for 15 teachers and sports coaches, This is one of the measures of creating an inclusive sports for children with hearing impairment, to bridge the gap of communication. We believe that through this training children with hearing impairment in Uganda will be fully included in sports and recreation activities.
ASA has entered into a new partnership agreement with BACKUP UGANDA to support children with learning difficulties achieve an inclusive learning environment in primary schools in Northern Uganda. Social change through sports in building an inclusive community and learning space for all forms of disabilities.
Eastern Division, Gulu City Council, Lumumba Avenue, Jomo Kenyatta Road
Phone : + 256771487566/+256700319116
Email : info@abilitysportsafrica.org
MON-FRI 09:00 – 19:00
SAT-SUN 10:00 – 14:00
