The András Pető Faculty put great emphasis on the sport as a development tool for children with disabilites. Now together with the Alzheimer Foundation and the Túravitorlás Sport Klub Ábrahámhegy Association the first Sailing Open Day was organized for children of the Faculty.
As Dr. Andrea Dr. Tenk Miklósné Zsebe, Dean said in her opening speech: the faculty has been offering to children the opportunity to take part in adaptive sports since the early years of 2000″s. Currently 11 sportarts are available at the Faculty, among them the adaptive rowing, fencing and balance bike riding as paraolimpic sportarts. The Faculty became one of the main source of paraolimpic sportsmen in the recent years.
The sport is a source of joy, challange and success for the motor-impaired people too and the Semmelweis University put great effort supporting many recreation activities – refered the Dean to the PE classes, the Parasport Day or the Family-friendly University Initiative.
Our goal to make sailing available for movement-impaired children as a sport activity – said András Gosztonyi, President of the Hungarian Alzheimer Foundation. – Sailing is a complex sport where children with motor disabilities can be as succesfull as anyone else.
It was a longtime dream for me to connect sailing and conductive pedagogy – said Virág Homonnay, sailboat instructor and student of the András Pető Faculty. – With sailing children gain skills which can be used in many situations not to mention that their coordination and balancing abilites are also get improved.
As this event was a super experience for every participants the Alzheimer Foundaation and our Faculty will organize a sailboat summer camp in the last week of August. The goal to make more children with disabilities to try out sailing and maybe some of them even taking up the sport in professional level.
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