The President of the National Paralympic Committee Mr. Sampson Deen says the Committee is in a discussion to partner with the Ghana Education Service to introduce Para Sports in Schools.
Speaking at the Maiden Extraordinary General Assembly which was held at the Airport West Hotel, Mr. Deen highlighted the need to introduce the Para in schools to allow students with disabilities to be part of the sports fraternity.
Mr Deen said, para sports and athletes’ participation has increased tremendously, both at national and international levels. “We have witnessed our athletes participating in all the major international and world events including the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in the United Kingdom; the historic hosting of the First African Para Games by Ghana brought and left a lot of benefits for our sports including a dedicated office; variety of sports equipment which has been distributed to various Sports Federations, a 44 Seater Bus yet to cleared from the Tema Port, Training of national and international classifiers for para athletics, powerlifting, boccia, wheelchair tennis; training of coaches and technical officials for various sports are some of the remarkable achievements of this administration”.
With the above achievement, this administration believes that it is time to introduce Para Sports in schools.
“We are ready and committed to take Para Sports to the brim, athletes can travel outside and further their education through sports, grassroots development is one of our goals and with hard work and commitment Para Sports will be loved by all.
By: Victoria Nana Adwoa Kwofie