In the place of the disabled were pupils of the K' Primary School of Limassol, Agios Panteleimon, as they have been participating in a series of activities over the last few days, culminating in today's participation in a basketball match with wheelchairs.
The actions, which are organized from time to time in various schools of primary and secondary education, on the occasion of World Disability Day on December 3, aim on the one hand to raise awareness and inform children and on the other hand, to give them the opportunity to experience for themselves what it means to be a person with a disability, the school teacher and member of the Pancyprian Organization of Persons with Disabilities, Christiana Grigoriou, told CNA.
"The children were asked to feel what it is like to be blind, as they were blindfolded and followed instructions, they were asked to feel what it is like to have no fingers and have to write, they watched alternative ways of communication and learned Christmas songs in sign language," she added. Gregoriou, must be accepted, included in society and respected and this is what we are trying to pass on to our young people.
Today, the students of Limassol Primary School K participated in a basketball match with wheelchairs, together with athletes from the teams of Apollon and Hephaestus, where they experienced the experience of a disabled person in a wheelchair.
Our goal is to raise awareness of the future of our country, which is our children, said the President of the Hifastos team, Michael Pavlidis, adding that these actions began in recent years and will continue.
"The children try the sport of basketball on a wheelchair and we answer their questions about general disability issues," he said, calling on other schools to get more actively involved in such actions.
Finally, he pointed out that the sport of wheelchair basketball can be participated in by any person with some form of disability, not only disabled people in wheelchairs.
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