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| Nov 17, 2011
June Activity: Inclusion through Disability Sports
By Ian McIntyre | Communications Director
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Gulu Coaches learning Sign Language
During this month different activities were conducted which were in line with the project objectives.
ACTIVITIES
- Delivery of the refresher training course for coaches
- Follow up of the coaches
- Scheduling of the training programme in schools
- Mobilisation of the coaches.
On 10th June 2011 the refresher course began at the GDPU centre. Twenty coaches attended the activities over two days, with discussions taking place over skills already acquired by the coaches and new ideas that will help in handling forthcoming seasons. Attendees included Fred Semakula ( GDPU co-ordinator), Ojok Patrick (GDPU Field Officer). Simon represented the Visually impaired department. The training was facilitated by Michael Aloya and Jill of TKL. The main outcomes of the training were as follows:
- Different skills/ideas for coaching various games with children with disabilities were covered. This included ideas for sports such as volleyball, football, showdown, goal ball, wheelchair basketball, netball and Boccia
- Discusssions took place about the necessary communication skills required when dealing with children with disabilities
- Discipline among the coaches was highlighted as a top priority in the project
- The overarching goal of advocating the rights of children with disabilities through sports was considered, and how the Gulu project could best achieve this
- There was also a discussion of LANGUAGE used while with the children with disabilities during sporting activities
In the two weeks following the training course TKL travelled to meet the various coaches at their schools to see if they were using the skills/knowledge acquired. As a result of these follow-up consultations the training course can be considered a success as most of the coaches had begun some mentoring processes with the children, talking about various aspects of the games that will be tested during the project. For example, children at Mother Teresa Primary School and Laroo Boarding Primary School were already practicing football, while at Gulu Primary School their children were already enjoying the showdown and the goalball games.
The Project Coordinator also emphasized that the project should promote strict adherence to respecting the rights of the persons with disabilities.
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Coach Training: Learning Boccia
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Coach Training: Learning Boccia
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Jun 21, 2010
One Year On
By Ann Dudley | Liaison Volunteer
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Licensed to Play Sports!
In the first year of this project we are deligted to report that 55 coaches have been successfully trained and 80 disabled children have been able to participate in sports leagues in Kampala.
In the coming year we hope to expand the training to coaches in Gulu a town in Northern Uganda where The Kids League conducted its first leagues back in 2003 in the days when a rebel army was abducting children as young as 5 years old into its ranks.
Gulu suffered 20 years of war ending in 2006 and a whole generation grew up in Internally Displaced People's camps. As these people go back to their traditional villages they face many challenges not least of all because they no longer have the skills to farm the land.
There is an increased number of children born with disabilities in conflict zones and some children are injured as direct result of war (eg by land mines). This migration from IDP camps to farms in Gulu District has had particular consequences for children with disabilities who have been left behind until the farms become productive once again and food supplies have been estabilised and stabilised.
So as we move our interventions up to the north, please help us to train coaches and put on some fun and healthy sporting activities for these children by donating to our cause!!
We will be eternally grateful and so will they!
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Mar 27, 2010
Update March 2010
By Ann Dudley | Co-Founder
Now a year into our A League project 55 Level one coaches have been trained to deliver Adapted Sports programmes for children in Kampala. Ten Level 2 Coaches, selected from the most committed of those coaches completing Level 1, have been undergoing training and assessments to reach Level 2 as a Trainer.
During the first year 80 children have been offered sporting opportunities which might never normally have come their way and one lucky girl has been selected to go with her able bodied friends to the Football for Hope Football Festival scheduled to take place alongside the World Cup in South Africa in June/July this year.
This project gives hope and builds aspirations in all children who are disabled showing them that they too can succeed whilst enjoying themselves. The advocacy role they as individuals play in educating their communities about the abilities of children with disabilities, is vast.
In this coming year we hope to reach out into the rural communiites in Uganda's former conflict zone where there are many additional children disabled because of war who could benefit enormously through this project.
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