Empowering Children with Disabilities Through Sports

Ability Sports Africa empowers children and youth with disabilities through our concept of reverse inclusion, where children are equipped with fundamental sports skills through our physical literacy assessment. This enables them to take the lead, develop leadership skills, and build the confidence needed to include their peers without disabilities in sports and play activities, thereby restoring self-esteem and overcoming the discrimination they have faced in society.

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Adaptive Sports for Social Change & Development

Ability Sports Africa empowers children and youth with disabilities by promoting adaptive sports that build confidence, foster leadership, and encourage inclusive play with peers. Our mission is to create opportunities where every child thrives and feels valued.

OUR VISION

An inclusive community where children and youth with different abilities are fully included in physical literacy, adaptive sports, games and creative arts.

OUR MISSION

To empower individuals of all abilities by building their self-confidence, self-esteem, efficacy and life time skills through sports, creative arts, and physical literacy programs both in schools and communities.

OUR CURRENT PROJECTS

Explore our projects for 2026.

LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELDS -INCLUSIVE SPORTS PROJECT

Duration: 3 year

Location: Gulu, and District

Leveling the playing field – Inclusive Sports project is a 3 years project funded by adidas Foundation in partnership with Light for the World Based in Northern Uganda’s Acholi sub-region, the project works across Gulu City, Gulu District, to expand opportunities for girls, boys, and young people with disabilities. Through adaptive sport, Light for the World and Ability Sports Africa are helping build more inclusive communities where young people can develop confidence, skills, and a stronger sense of belonging through the power of adaptive games and sports.

INCLUSIVE SPORTS FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE – CJIFA GRANT

3 Months

Location: Gulu

We are promoting climate justice through our model of reverse inclusion, where our children with disabilities will champion fruit tree planting in their communities. The beauty is that they will play to plant 500 trees: each goal scored, basket scored, points scored will be equivalent to five trees. The project is being piloted in 4 primary schools in Gulu, each schools will have 25 club executives and 100 members per school, and each member will also plant a fruit tree at home. The executives will monitor this directly, support in training and advocating for tree planting at their school.

SCORE A GOAL PLANT TREE THE POWER OF SPORTS IN CLIMATE RESILLIENCE

UNIFIED 5K RACE SERIES

Date: 21/10/2026

Location: Arua City

ASA in partnership with adaptx plans to organize the second Unified 5K race in Uganda, the raise is aimed at promoting social inclusion and as an advocacy platform.

INTER-SCHOOL INCLUSIVE SPORTS GALA

Date: 9/08/2026

Location: Gulu Primary School

Celebrate sports and inclusion through fun games and activities for all youth.

Explore Our Amazing Activities

Activities that brings out hidden abilities from every child or youth with a disability.

SCHOOL INCLUSIVE SPORTS

Weekly engagement of children with disabilities in sports.

INTER-SCHOOL SPORTS GALA

Every second term holidays ASA organizes sports gala in Gulu Uganda.

UGANDA NATIONAL DISABILITY SPORTS GALA

Annual event to help i identify the best athletes to represent Uganda in Para games, above is our blind football team.

UNIFIED 5K RACE

670 participated in the first edition of the unified 5k race.

INCLUSIVE CHILDRENS PARTY

Every year, ASA gives back by hosting an inclusive party specially designed for children with disabilities.

PHYSIOTHERAPY ADAPTIVE SWIMMING AND HOME VISIT.

Organizing home visits led by our physiotherapist and connecting parents to a support group has established a strong foundation.

2026 ACHIEVEMENTS/ IMPACTS

Every seed we saw must yield, explorer the impact of our activities.

3RD PLACE IN BLIND FOOTBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Blind football is one of the fasting growing football for visually impaired persons, the 2026 National gala attracted 8 teams from Uganda and Kenya hosted by Makerere University, Gulu Cyclone Club became Third.

NATIONAL CHAMPION FOR WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL BOYS AND GIRLS TEAM IN UGANDA

During the disability sports Gala Ablity Sports basketball teams played teams from kampala, Soroti, Ability Sports team beat KCCA team in the finals 65-25 baskets emerging the National champion, mean while Ability Sports female team beat KCCA female 21-6 baskets

NATIONAL CHAMPION FOR WHEELCHAIR RUGBY IN UGANDA

This was the first edition of wheelchair rugby championship known as Tugende, Ability Sports where training and empowered by Kampala team early in March – with constant training and strong team at ASA the emerged the champion after beating all Uganda based teams both home and away and played Wales team in a friendly match.

NATIONAL CHAMPION IN GOAL BALL

Goal ball is a very special game for persons with visual impairment, as a result of continued opportunities for persons with disabilities to access this games, its was a sure win for ASA Goal ball team to win.

RICHARD OCHIRA WINS WHEELCHAIR RACING

Richard is a very unique althelet, very passionate about racing and wheelchair basketball, he has been racing for Uganda under the Challenge Athlete for the past 5 years, He has dorminated racing in the last 10 years.

ABILITY SPORTS AFRICA (GULU) THE CHAMPION OF 2026

ASA Crowned once again as the National Champion in the recently concluded National Disability gala winning 49 Medals (19 Gold, 14 Silver and 16 Browns)

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