Follow Up Cyprus

Through our page, we want to promote the activities that we have done for the inclusion of people with disabilities. With the participants that took part in the training, we organized an activity in one of our international projects about wheelchair basketball as a tool for inclusion. This activity was done on Thursday, October 26, 2023, in Limassol with the help of players of Apollon Wheel Chair Basketball.  

Wheelchair Basket Ball as a tool for including people with disabilities KA153YOU "CREating with ACt and arTs a safe envIronment in Our ceNters CREACTION"  https://creaction1.webnode.page/   

Youth workers of NGO ACPELIA, with the help of players from the wheelchair basketball team of Apollon, showed to the participants of the program CREACTION and to a group of volunteers from the program inclusion in Pissouri. The activity was done on October 26 in the play grount of Apollonas Wheelchair Basketball and with our youth workers, we are preparing more activities like this activity in schools. 

Pages that we promote this activity

NFE for Disability: https://nfe-for-dis.webnode.page/wheelchair-basketball/ 

Inclusion in Pissouri: https://inclusioninpissouri.webnode.page/october-26/ 

Creaction: https://creaction1.webnode.page/wheelchair-basketball/ 

NGO ACPELIA promoted the project through different dissemination activities that were organized every 2-3 months with all youth workers of the organisation. 

Finally NGO ACPELIA with the participants ofthe training organised an activity in C TESEK of Limassol 

A different experience was experienced by the students of the 3rd year of C TESEK Limassol, on Thursday, January 18, 2024. In particular, we had with us Ms. Maria Markou, IT professor at the Ministry of Education and a paralympian in the sport of weightlifting at the Paralympics in Tokyo, together with the basketball players of Apollon Wheel Chair Basketball Christakis Ioannou and Ifaistos Wheel Chair Basketball Michalis Pavlidis (2 of them youthworkers in NGO ACPELIA and participants of our training). The wheelchair athletes talked to the students about wheelchair basketball, and disabilities, and the students played with them and had the experience of stepping into someone else's shoes.