MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE) announced this Monday that, together with the Spanish Embassy in Niger, it has launched a collaboration project aimed at training local managers and technicians in the field of Paralympic sport.
The training consisted of four virtual sessions and three face-to-face sessions of a practical nature, held between December 18 and 20 in the capital of the African country, Niamey, an initiative that is part of the ACERCA Training Workshop project financed by the Agency Spanish Association for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
This initiative has addressed different areas related to sports for people with disabilities such as organization and management, creation of structures, recruitment of technicians and athletes, classification or preventive physiotherapy.
In addition, he has delved into two of the most popular modalities of the Paralympic program, such as athletics and wheelchair basketball, sports that are the protagonists of the practical sessions developed in Niamey and taught by the representatives of the CPE Ramón Velázquez and Franck Belén.
“With this workshop, the CPE intends to contribute to the development of sports for people with disabilities in those countries where it is not yet sufficiently established. The Paralympic Committee of Niger and other institutions and sports associations in the country have also participated in it,” he stressed. the committee in a press release.