Brazilian Paralympics set for a boost


Brazilian Paralympics set for a boost

Doha: Ten secondary school students from Brazil are keen to use sports as a means to alter the way disabled people are treated in society throughout the world.
The group, six male and four female, participated in the Student Ambassador Programme, one of the initiatives at the Doha Goals Forum which ended here on Wednesday. 

The Brazilian project deals with the social inclusion, transformation and connection of the disabled in society through sport.

“We will use sports as a means to achieve personal development. We believe sports bring education, leadership skills, and other skills and qualities, all which are important for the personnel development of all persons, including disabled people,” said Henrique Krigner of Humanitare Institute.

 The International Relations coordinator at the Humanitare Institute, a Brazilian NGO responsible for selection of Brazilian students to participate in the Doha event spoke exclusively to The Peninsula on the sidelines of the Doha Goals Forum.
Kringer informed that the project involves three initiatives which focus on the job market and sports.

“A web portal, which will feature job opportunities for the disabled people, secondly, a national forum in Brazil and the rest of the world, on what steps are been taken by the private sector and government to motivate and create a high level of awareness for people with disabilities. And the third one, is a limitless club, a place like Aspire Academy, a place where there is an alliance between sports and education,” said the Humanitare Institute official.

"The students presented the project on Tuesday about how sport can alter social questions at the Doha Goals Forum. The wife of Emir H H Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned was one of the people who was present for the presentation. The students have been thrilled by the response they got, and it has been a personal journey of fulfillment for the students, as they got a chance to meet and exchange with some of the decision makers of the world,” Kringer said.

“The youths who are between the age of 16 and 17 years of age and are from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro cities, intend to motivate handicapped people to be athletes and to be high level professionals and business people. The youth project seeks to motivate people with disability to reach out to the available existing opportunities, but which they do not have excess. The students questioned ‘why we do not have person with disabilities as CEO and president of the country,” he added.
 Kringer also informed that Rio de Janeiro is keen in delivering a perfect 2016 Olympic and Paraolympic Games and the project will help the Brazilian Paralympic movement.
“Our focus is also on raising awareness for the Paralympics games because we have noticed that Paralympions are not famous like our Olympians, and we want to make it a huge and successful event in Brazil 2016 (Olympics).

Kringer informed that the students also had meetings with international figures from different fields and also legends of sports during their Qatar visit, including visits by representatives from the Brazilian sports ministry and from Brazilian embassy in Qatar.

The Brazilian group was one of the many groups which were attending the three-day meet which saw the participation of 400 students from 40 countries in the Student Ambassador Programme.

The selection criteria for the students to be part of the Qatar project were involvement with sports, potential leadership and fluency in English.

Yin-chu Jou, Artistic Director at Friendship Ambassadors Foundation said.

“We are from the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, an organization involved in peace and cultural exchanges. We have been part of several forums for the past few years, the last one was the Un Alliance for Civilization hosted by Qatar Foundation. We have been involved in getting youth leaders and youth moderators and creating a mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue.

The Doha Goals Forum got in touch with us to help them identify youth who could take part in the Qatar meet. We organize the annual youth assembly at the United Nations every summer for the last 12 years and we have a band network of youth leaders around the world, so we were asked to identify a couple of legations from countries which they (attias) has no access to. And, thus we managed to get the one and only delegation from Brazil to Doha.

In fact we have brought two delegations to Qatar, the other is the youth ambassadors from Canada, The young people from Canada are also working to empower young people with disabilities and 



Location: Qatar

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