【Cambodia】Support for Promoting Understanding Education for People with Disabilities (Third Dispatch)
- Time Period
- 12th Jan. to 23rd Mar., 2016
- Region
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Sport/Programme Category
- Sitting volleyball
Blind football - Implementer
- University of Tsukuba
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - Co-Implementer
- NPO Hearts of Gold
Cambodian Mekong University
National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) - Number of Individual Beneficiaries
- 217 people
The University of Tsukuba Physical Education Department conducts short-term dispatch of JICA volunteers in collaboration with JICA Tsukuba. During the period from January to March 2016, two graduate students (two and a half months) and three undergraduate students (one month) were dispatched to Cambodia as JICA Volunteer short-term members. With the cooperation of the Cambodian Olympics Committee, the NPO Heart of Gold, and the University of Mekong, students engaged in education for understanding people with disabilities through sports.
Students worked to promote opportunities to enjoy sports together, with or without disabilities. In collaboration with students from the University of Mekong, the students worked with three high schools in Phnom Penh.
The activity was divided into three stages, and in the first stage, participants experienced the perspective of people with disabilities through games that they could enjoy with or without disabilities. In the second stage, participants experienced sitting volleyball and blind football.
In the third stage, participants discussed sports that everyone can enjoy with or without disabilities, and new sports were proposed, such as line football and sitting football with modified football, and blind volleyball with modified volleyball.
See below for the Japanese version.
http://www.sftlegacy.jpnsport.go.jp/wp/jp/20160112-0323/
Students worked to promote opportunities to enjoy sports together, with or without disabilities. In collaboration with students from the University of Mekong, the students worked with three high schools in Phnom Penh.
The activity was divided into three stages, and in the first stage, participants experienced the perspective of people with disabilities through games that they could enjoy with or without disabilities. In the second stage, participants experienced sitting volleyball and blind football.
In the third stage, participants discussed sports that everyone can enjoy with or without disabilities, and new sports were proposed, such as line football and sitting football with modified football, and blind volleyball with modified volleyball.
See below for the Japanese version.
http://www.sftlegacy.jpnsport.go.jp/wp/jp/20160112-0323/