In recognition that sporting opportunities for Cambodian Women with a disability are severely limited, and at an embryonic stage within Cambodia’s disability sports development, the CNVLD is very pleased to announce the development of a program of Wheelchair Basketball for Cambodian Women with a Disability in 2012.

 

This CNVLD project will be carried out with the support and cooperation of Disability Sports and Recreation (DSR: dsr.org.au) – from Victoria, Australia along with cooperation from the Cambodian Ministry of Social Affairs Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MOSVY) and International Red Cross (ICRC).

The project will focus on the development of women’s wheelchair basketball, with two teams to be established in Phnom Penh, and two teams in provincial Cambodia in Battambang during 2012.

The CNVLD gratefully acknowledges the support of DSR to the CNVLD Cambodian Women’s Wheelchair Project 2012 through the provision of 16 wheelchair basketball chairs, a technical coaching Advisor and ongoing sport specific development support to the program.

The Cambodian Women's Wheelchair basketball Program will assist to encourage the participation of Cambodian women with a disability in sporting activities, particularly as a way to enable them to participate in the public sphere including the training and selection of a National team for participation in regional and international events in order to raise awareness of the ability of Cambodian women with a disability.

Beneficiaries of the Cambodian women’s wheelchair Basketball Program include:

Ø      The Women with a Disability of Cambodia who need support and encouragement to become involved in sport including entering into leadership positions through sports coaching tenures

Ø      Women double amputee landmine survivors, polio survivors and children with a disability who have had limited access to date to sporting opportunities

Ø      The Cambodian provincial communities that host a CNVLD Women’s sports teams program therefore assisting to foster social cohesiveness and advance women’s rights within their respective communities

The Cambodian Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Program will be managed by CNVLD Sports Manager Ms Khuon Socheta, who is goes by “ Tata." Tata is a Polio survivor with a severe disability, and will be responsible for all aspects of management of the program in line with the localisation and local leadership training objectives of the CNVLD.