As demonstrated by the latest Eurobarometer survey, Bulgaria, in fact, is the country with the lowest inclusion rate of disabled people, and Greece and Serbia also do not occupy a good position in the ranking at all. The problems caused by the coronavirus, then, worsened the situation, in fact social life was reduced to a minimum and the disabled had even fewer opportunities to socialize.
This situation led the partnership organizations to think about carrying out a project to tackle this problem; all partner organizations are strongly convinced that sport represents the best way to promote the social inclusion of disabled people. In fact, sport in general and the strategies adopted by this project tend to remove those forms of social exclusion that people with disabilities suffer in their daily life: the lack of learning of social and life skills, a low participation in free time and social activities...
For this reason, the partnership offers theoretical and practical workshops and conferences that aim to establish a system of relationships between disabled and able-bodied people, in order to ensure that disabled people can feel an integral part of the society and relational contexts where you can act, choose, play and see your role and identity recognized.
Sports activity is proposed as an experience able to actively involve the participants, so that they can live these moments as an example of conquering personal self-esteem and gratification for the improvement of self-esteem. On the other hand, able-bodied participants have the opportunity to overcome prejudices and preconceptions related to diversity. The project, therefore, wants to carry out activities that cancel those degrading and different treatments towards the disabled, demonstrating that these people too have the right to have the same opportunities for participation and involvement in the choices that concern them.