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The project is implemented by Challenges, a national magazine focusing on disability advocacy and community empowerment.
It is supported under the Sport for All programme in collaboration with Youth Sport Trust UK implemented by British Council Malaysia.
Pilot project period is September 2013 to December 2013, and to be reviewed and continued in 2014
This project will start with children with learning disability and visual impairment
Empower youth participants to support and mentor children with disabilities to learn how to cycle
Build a bicycle for special need children Enable them to gain proficiency in cycling so they
can eventually cycle independently
Improve cognitive functioning,(inc. left-right coordination) in safe environment with supportive mentor and buddies
The target participants are centre-based children with disabilities, centre operators, their family members and volunteers from colleges and community
We will use tandem bicycles, two seater bicycles, to enable the children who may not have the opportunity to cycle or know how to pedal and steer the bicycles; learn to do that.
Tandem bicycle enable a youth to mentor a child.
Both of them will control the bicycle and pedal along but the mentor will control the braking.
Implementation of this project : Manpower
All the youth leaders will go for a sports leadership training (Disability Equality Training and Sportability leadership training)..
They will also undergo technical training to assemble, design and learn the safety measure to build the bicycle.
4 youth participants each team.
In collaboration with college students and community clubs.
Implementation of the programme: Equipment
For the bicycles; to start a recycling drive for used bicycles
We will combine two bicycle into one tandem bicycle.
For safety gear: safety helmet and knee pads
We Need:A Bicycles or bicycle parts that we can assemble into tandem bicycles.
B Youth leaders / centre-based volunteers keen to participate1 to learn how to assemble the bikes 2 to ‘test –cycle’ the bikes; 3 to mentor a child with disability in cycling4 to teach other volunteers above steps 1-3
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER
call ZAINAL atE-mail : [email protected] : 0197244836Challenges MediaRoom 7 Level 1Bangunan SECITA,4A Jalan SS5D/6, Kelana Jaya,47301 Petaling Jaya SelangorTel/Fax : 603-78875747E-mail : [email protected]
