Dear all, We at Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation, wish to get nominations from female visually impaired and blind runners who would like to participate in the upcoming marathon, Pinkathon, in Mumbai scheduled for Sunday December13th. There will be more then 10,000 women runners participating from the main stream community. We will pair the visually impaired runners alongside professional marathon runners who will act as running partners and coaches. All registration and other arrangements will be taken care of by our organization, Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation. the marathon distances one can participate in are 3,5 and 10 KM. s, with seperate podium finish for each category. Please contact on +919890993825 to register or for enquiries. Appreciate if you could also help share this information with other groups and individuals with disabilities.
WHY DO WE CONDUCT marathons FOR PERSON'S WITH DISABILITIES and Able bodied together? You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. While our main focus is on the sport, the truth is, sports are simply the tool for accomplishing a bigger goal, to bring hope, inspiration and the joys of achievement to Persons with Disabilities. Persons with Disabilities run for many reasons and with many goals, to improve physical strength; to build confidence. But along the run something else happens that few expect, but everyone cherishes. It is the sense of friendship, encouragement, and community that people find while running. It is our belief that with support, nurturing, and training, Persons with Disabilities can participate and succeed in mainstream sports. We believe that sports help us understand different people and surroundings better. Being confronted with a challenge and then overcoming it by creative ways is a great way to increase confidence and it creates lasting ties with each other. Running together encourages empathy, discovering more about yourself and your partner. It creates awareness at levels that help breaks stereotypes and bring about social transformation. Running is a great way for Persons with Disabilities to mingle in the mainstream. Many of them, especially in India, struggle with establishing contact with the rest of the community and often live isolated lives. Sport helps them break free of these barriers, engage in the outside world, realize their capabilities and create friendships. It helps their self belief, helps communicate their view of world, and helps to think of themselves as change-makers. ABOUT ADVENTURES BEYOND BARRIERS- Adventures beyond Barriers Foundation is a Not for Profit organisation, to promote adventure sports for persons with Disability. The underlying philosophy is that “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” We aim to engage able bodied individuals together with Persons with Disabilities, in adventure sports and allied activities in a safe and sustainable way and to bring them both together; in a journey such that they help and learn from each other. We hope to achieve this by creating appropriate conditions to establish interpersonal contact, and by enabling communication with one another, with a view to understand and appreciate different points of views involving each other’s ways of life. As a result of this new appreciation and understanding, issues of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination between the groups should reduce and lead to long term social transformation. This will also help get persons with disability more visibility, which helps create awareness towards inclusion and accessibility. You can see how our work has impacted people in this short film (click here to view it online): https://youtu.be/cxlQF5cdAvU OUR CONTACT INFORMATION- http://www.adventuresbeyondbarriers.com/ www.facebook.com/adventuresbeyondbarriers/ If you need any more information about us or have any queries please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your time. Divyanshu Ganatra Team Adventures Beyond Barriers Mob: +919890993825 On 11/4/15, Volunteers for the Blind Found <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Divyanshu, It was indeed a pleasure to see you in the 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/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] 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..
