A sports and rehabilitation camp for training in the use of a wheelchair was opened in the Nizhny Novgorod region
28 June 2021 a field sports and rehabilitation camp for training in the use of an active wheelchair "Center for Active Life" was opened in the Nizhny Novgorod region. It was created within the framework of the project "School of Active Life", supported by the Presidential Grants Fund ". The camp is annually organized by the regional public organization "Invatur".
Children with disabilities came to the sports center "Academy 52", wishing to learn how to use an active wheelchair, independent living skills. The program includes activities for comprehensive social rehabilitation, work with a psychologist, lawyer consulting, practicing adaptive sports: barrel, trail orientation, laser biathlon on wheelchairs.
“The guys have arrived, to learn to move confidently and safely, overcome obstacles. I myself move in a wheelchair and I know, how important it is for an independent active life ", – said the head of the camp Anastasia Druzhinina.
"In the sports center" Academy 52 ", built for the World Cup, conditions for living and training wheelchair athletes have been created. Hopefully, that one of the guys, newcomers to the camp, will find himself in parasport ", – noted the Deputy Chairman of the NROOI "Invatur" Ivan Konovalov.
Source - Nizhny Novgorod regional public organization of cultural and, of social and labor rehabilitation of disabled Opornik and wheelchair users
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