Dear Friends, As you might know, I love sports and adventures. Various research shows that sports play an important part in boosting health and confidence of all individuals- be it disables or able-bodied.
I have always known and played one game- Cricket. But there are other exciting, individualistic, rigorous and mixed-gender games which I enjoyed playing while being in the UK. To start with, I wish to bring blind tennis and goalball to our country. I am in touch with keen individuals and organisations who would like to promote these games in India. I desire that unlike my generation of VI people, who had to exclusively focus on survival by doing well in academics, my new young VI friends enjoy the fine things of life. Our able-bodied fellow Olympic sportsmen are trying their hard to bring meddles, but I aspire to support my young friends who I’m sure can do much better in 2020 Para-Olympics. I’m a 6-day working corporate professional and therefore, cannot at present devote lot of time for it. Therefore, I request support of enthusiastic individuals and organisations who can contribute in developing these games in India. Walk the talk: I would want to call in a taster session for both the games- tennis and goalball in October at Mumbai, to introduce participants to the magic of these games and enlist them for regular training sessions to enable them to play international games by the next year. If you are a female/male VI sports enthusiast or parent of the VI youngsters or just want to support our endeavours, please express your interest by writing to me at ekin...@gmail.com I will be able to write back only in the middle of month of September. I’m carrying necessary knowledge and sound balls for these games. What we need is few enthusiasts )already there) and place (To be finalised) to start the whack and I’m sure we will get there. Hope to hear from you all soon. Cheers Ekinath -- With best regards, Ekinath Khedekar. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
