Abilympics are vocational skills competitions for persons with disabilities and enable them to showcase as well as enhance their talent.
Abilympics empower the contestants to become economically independent and help to create public awareness about their abilities.
Second National Abilympics - February 14 - 16, 2007
NAAI was formed at the behest of Govt. of India and under the aegis of Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust in May 2001 to serve as a nodal agency to formulate, initiate and implement policies to propogate Abilympics in the country. The registered office is located at Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust, Karkar Dooma, Vikas Marg, Delhi – 110092 and is guided by a Governing Body. This was followed by identifying and appointing Zonal Vice Presidents from renowned NGOs in five regions of the country viz. East at Kolkata; West at Ahmedabad; South at Chennai and North as well as Central at Delhi. Later a zonal vice president was appointed at Bhopal to promote abilympics in the central zone. All the zonal vice presidents are associated with local NGOs with requisite infrastructure in the disability sector. The VPs organize District level abilympics in their zone with the help of NGOs, district administrations and other agencies. Some of the zones organized pre-regional before organizing Regional Abilympics with the objective was to get the maximum number of participants from all over the country.
7th IA at Shizouka, Japan November 13 - 18, 2007 In all 30 contests (26 vocational and 4 Leisure & Living skills) were organised in Japan. The Indian contingent consisted of 29 participants & 11 officials, escorts, all of whom came from various parts of the country.
All the gold medal winners of the 2nd National Abilympics participated in the 7th IA. After initial training in their zones, all the participants were trained in Delhi for a period of 3 week. The participants, NAAI officials took pains to select institutes and members for training. the training institutes and individuals took great pains to impart knowledge and fine tune various crucial points in the tasks.
Glimpses Of Second National Abilympics held in Delhi from Feb14 -16, 2007 |