Abilympics are vocational skill competitions for persons with disabilities to enable them to showcase and enhance their talent.  Abilympics empower the contestants and help create public awareness about their abilities.

The National Abilympic Association of India was formed in May 2001 at the behest of the Minitrsies of Social Justice & Empowerment and Human Resource Development, Government of India 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 organize pre-regional before organizing Regional Abilympics to get the maximum number of participants from all over the country.   

The Mission of National Abilympic Association of India is to create public awareness and nurture the productive talents of persons with disabilities by providing them opportunities to acquire and enhance their vocational skills to achieve economic independence.

Aims and Objectives :

1.  To facilitate enhancement of skills in vocational, educational, medical .sports and cultural activities to persons with disabilities.
   
   
2. To promote and organize, Regional, National and International meets and competitions.
   
   
3. Involve Central and State Governments in the activities of persons with disability.
4. To empower the persons with disability for financial independence.
   
   
5. To interact with Central & State Governments  for advocacy in matters of public awareness about potential of persons with disability.
   
   
6. Promote International Friendship and exchange of knowledge and programmes associated with the Persons with Disability .
   
   
7. To collaborate with other like minded organizations both in India and abroad for purposes of providing special education, research and rehabilitation facilities for persons with disability . 
   
   
8. To serve as a nodal agency for National, International, Government and Non-governmental Organizations in India, in the field of disability Furthermore, to issue appeals and applications for money and funds in furtherance of the said objectives and receive gifts, donations and subscriptions of cash and securities and of any property either moveable or immovable towards Corpus of the Association or towards its activities.
   
   
9. Training and conducting of competitions, and have educational programmes for persons with different disabilities on year round basis, irrespective of caste, creed, or religion, both within India and on International level so as to develop their minds and bodies.
   
   
10. Organising and operating Abilympic -related programs through out India at National, State, and local levels, as well as international level with accreditation of International Abilympic Federation.
    
    
11. To promote or assist in promoting membership and to subscribe or become a member of any other body  whose objectives are similar or in part similar to those of NAAI.
    
    
12. To seek and accept financial assistance from Government, non Governmental agencies, Trusts, Foundations Business houses , International agencies and such other Organizations as may be decided by the Executive Committee of the Society from time to time
    
    
13. All the income earnings, moveable and /or immovable properties of the Society, shall be solely utilized and applied towards the promotion of its aims and objectives only as set forth in the Memorandum of Association and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividends bonus, profit or in any manner, whatsoever to the present or <past members of the Society or to any person or persons claming through any one or more of the present or past members. No member of the Society .shall have any personal claim on any moveable and /or immovable properties of the Society or make any profit whatsoever, by virtue of this membership.

7th IA at Shizouka, Japan November 13 - 18, 2007

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.  

During the 7th IA India won 3 Silver (Desktop Publishing, Photography and Embroidery), 1 bronze (Photography) medal and a Certificate of Excellence (Mechanical Assembly). The silver and bronze medal winners were given a cash award of Rs. 75,000/- and Rs. 50,000/- respectively by the Government of India.
 

Glimpses of 7th IA