News from SO Bharat

Andhra Pradesh Tracks Roller –Skating Championship in GMS

Andhra Pradesh chapter became the first initiator to track National Championship in Games Management System.
Mr. John Nagarajan, Regional Manager, SO Asia Pacific, Mr. Victor R Vaz, National Sports Director, SO Bharat, Mr. Virender Kumar, SO Bharat – Delhi worked hard to compile and generate the data and conduct events according to GMS format. Over 300 athletes participated in the event.

114 Athletes and 5 Coaches from Bihar honored on the National Sports Day

Bihar Govt. honored 114 Special Olympics athletes and 5 coaches for their achievements in the field of Sports during the National and World Games. They won cash prizes along with a memento and shawl.

In another achievement, Bihar government has passed a bill to provide government job to the athletes performing well during the International events.

In another achievement, Bihar government has passed a bill to provide government job to the athletes performing well during the International events.

Approximately 28 parents, 5 special educators and 7 special young athlete from different Schools in Delhi and Gurgaon took part in this program.

One session was conducted to demonstrate how to conduct a Young Athlete Program. This class  was taken by Mrs. Sandra Vaz.  The program was found to be interesting and useful and  helped many parents and special educators to join together and work. It enabled the participants to work together  as a family, to motivate and encourage  special athletes in  many aspects of their lives. During the group discussion, parent participated actively and enjoyed the experience. Mr. Simon Koh explained the scope of the  Special Olympics Young Athletes Program and the many initiatives available for our athletes like school and youth, healthy athletes, Alps, unified sports and family support network.

During the first assessment session, all the groups discussed and drafted their goals and objectives for family activation and support in their respective States / Districts. In second assessment session groups identified creative opportunities to develop family support and activation to achieve the goals established in the first session. In the last session, the groups presented their family support and activation proposals as feed back from the course.
   

Physical Education for Primary Classes

The British Council, along with Ministry of Human Resource Development, has created Physical Education Cards for use by the teachers of Primary classes. These Cards along with the Manuals, are being used by teachers in Government / Govt. aided schools for the fun-fitness / physical fitness Program. SO Bharat has provided the necessary inputs to ensure that the process of training for the physical fitness program is suitable for the disabled. The modules for Fun-fitness and Young Athletes have been modified and amended to suit our specific requirements. A series of sessions were conducted in Delhi to train teachers where SO Bharat trainers trained the coaches how to encourage children to participate in games and how to include children with special needs in their programs.

Family Forum conducted during the International Cricket Carnival

This Program was conducted by Mr. Simon Koh Asia Pacific Bangkok. The venue for this one day program was the Scottish High School Gurgaon.

International Inspiration team partners with SO Bharat to generate awareness on World Disability day
SOGII sessions were conducted with 9th grade students of Central Government School in a Delhi, Medak (Andhra Pradesh) and Chandrapur (Maharashtra). This project was undertaken along with the Dreams N teams project of British Council. Under this project, student leaders were trained to provide physical education to the junior classes. The students at Delhi were given the opportunity to learn about intellectual disability and were encouraged to make friends with our Special Athletes. Lord Sebastian Coe, 2010 Olympics Board Chair and holder of the world mile record, participated in the event organized at Central School, Delhi and played Bocce along with our athletes. This was a unified sports event.
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