Ukraine plans to develop adaptive sports: Parliament supports decision
Kyiv • UNN
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted a bill on the creation of "adaptive sports" for military personnel and civilians with disabilities. It will promote inclusion, rehabilitation and socialization without competition.
A new direction for supporting people with disabilities and war victims should appear in Ukraine - it is about "adaptive sports". The Verkhovna Rada has adopted the relevant bill as a whole. This was reported in Telegram by People's Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko, UNN reports.
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According to Honcharenko, adaptive sports will be a separate area in the field of physical culture. It can be attended by military and civilians who have received a disability or have physical or psychological limitations.
Classes will promote inclusion, rehabilitation and socialization - without competitions, titles and sports categories
According to the explanatory note of draft law №9485, the goal is to create conditions for ensuring the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of a separate area of physical culture. The draft law also envisages promoting the involvement of people with disabilities or people with limited daily functioning in physical culture and sports, their physical and psychological rehabilitation.
Let us remind you
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized the importance of rehabilitation and development of veterans in small communities, in particular on the basis of schools.