For people with visual disability, especially young people, continuous, quality access to sport is still strongly limited today. Real gaps persist locally: too few genuinely accessible and structured sports pathways, too few coaches trained specifically in visual disability, and training and accompaniment costs that many families simply cannot sustain.
The project
The project builds a stable model of inclusive sport around sport climbing, fencing, athletics and swimming, giving blind and visually impaired athletes structured, continuous training rather than occasional sessions. Dedicated support is also offered to athletes already competing, or able to compete, in competitive circuits for climbing and fencing.
The aim is to promote social inclusion, wellbeing, autonomy and active participation for people with visual disability, particularly young people and adults, developing personal and social skills while countering isolation and unequal access to sport. Alongside the athletes themselves, the project builds the inclusive competence of coaches and sports organisations in the area, working towards a model that can be replicated elsewhere.
Who the project is for
The project's direct beneficiaries are 40 people with visual disability, blind and visually impaired, with priority given to children and teenagers aged 8 to 17, young people and adults aged 18 to 35, and blind or visually impaired athletes already in, or able to join, competitive circuits.
Its impact reaches further, to families, coaches, companions, guides and volunteers, and to sports clubs and facility managers across the area.
Project name: Together in Sport for a Better World
Proposing organisation: A.S.D. DISABILI ROMA 2000
Area of intervention: Inclusion & Social Development
Country: Italy