Focus on disabled
The integration of disabled people into sports and recreational clubs for the ablebodied is one of the aims of the 1981 International Year of the Disabled.
The Canterbury organiser of sports and recreation activities for the year, Mr A. R. Taylor, said yesterday that many sports and recreational organisations had
! shown a willingness jo help disabled people. “We hope this year to highlight just how valuable this sort of integration and sharing can be,” he said. “So often disabled people get pushed aside in the hurly burly of social life. When clubs show they are ready to accept disabled people, it opens a completely new and; satisfying world to them.” ' j Activities planned by the! Canterbury committee for; the International Year of the! Disabled for the next two months include the participation of disabled athletes in the New Zealand Games in February. It will be the first time in New Zealand that ' disabled athletes will have taken part in a sports tournament Of world class orfanised primarily for ableodied people.
On Waitangi Day, February 6, a sports and recreational programme for elderly and disabled people will be held at Queen Elizabeth II Park. This is being organised by staff of the Christchurch City Council. A picnic for able-bodied and disabled people will be held at the Groynes on February 8.
Other activities in the early part of the year include a seminar for teachers and sports administrators on adapting sporting and recreational facilities for disabled people and planning changes to various sports codes to meet the needs of the disabled.
Canterbury people will
also be involved in “Operation Bee Bee,” a relay bv disabled people which will start from Bluff and North Cape simultaneously and end in Wellington, where a submission on the United Nations Rights of Disabled| Persons will be presented to the Governor-General . (Sir David Beattie)’on March 27. I Research will also be (started on what sports and ! recreational facilities are (available for disabled people in Canterbury. The results of this will appear in a booklet to be sent to all groups for disabled people in the district.
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