SPORT ASSOCIATION "GABRIELLA VIVALDA" ONLUS
This is a non-profit -making association registered to the Regional register
of Volunteers on the 30/12/2002 number 269, it is associated with the Italian
Sport League for Disabled People (CIP) and promotes the special sport programs
of Italian Committee Paraliympic (CIP) for Mental Disabled People. Its aims are
merely social and its principal targets are the promotion, the propagation,
the coordinating, the experimenting, among the physical and mental disabled
people, educational, rehabilitating, recreational, cultural, sport and amateur
activities.
The Association pursues merely a solidarity aim and :
- participates and let its members participate to manifestations and seminars about the activities done
- arranges competitive and non-competitive national and international manifestations, seminars etc...
- advertises and takes care of technical publications about the proposed activities
- agrees with the different National and international institutions for the sporting promotion National Leagues, Sport associations etc...
- issues membership cards and certificates for its Managers, Instructors, Athletes and Members.
The association was born in 1998 with seven founders, mental disabled people's parents, actually there are
70 members (disabled people) who come from 27 towns of the province of Cuneo.
Every children starting from 8 years old can attend the sporting activities without any age limit.
The sporting activities are: Athletics, Swimming , Skiing and cross-country skiing, five-a-side
Football, Bowls, Basket Ball, Karate, Golf. Since from its foundation some meetings of the
different activities have been arranged and the Athletes of our Association attended to Regional
, National and International meetings
Here you find the previewed annual program:
Regional or National Games Winter Sports (Downhill Skiing, Northern Skiing)
Athletics Meeting "Town of Savigliano"
Football tournament "Town of Saluzzo"
Bowls tournament "Town of Racconigi"
Bowls tournament "Town of Centallo"
Swimming competition "Town of Fossano"
Soncek (Cerebral Palsy Association of Slovenia)
SONCEK - the Cerebral Palsy Association of Slovenia is a nonprofit, nongovernmental and non-political organization for
people with disabilities and their parents. It was established in 1983. The organization incorporates fifteen regional
societies for cerebral palsy, the Society for prematurely born children and Sport Society for cerebral palsy »Zarek«.
Societies unites over 4.000 children, youth and adults with cerebral palsy and other disabilities, as well as their relatives,
professionals and volunteers. As a national organization, Soncek presents the associations common standpoints. It also coordinates
negotiations concerning maters of common interest with other organizations of disabled people in national umbrella organization.
Soncek is member of International Cerebral Palsy Society and European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities.
Mission
Soncek is striving for conditions that will ensure equal opportunities for all residents of Slovenia, regardless of their physical or
intellectual abilities, for a life to own visions, in accordance with all other residents.
Vision
Soncek tends to create cultural environment that will except the difference in physical and intellectual abilities without prejudice.
Services
Day centers in Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Kranj, Slovenj Gradec, Koper, Ptuj, Murska Sobota, Novo mesto and Krsko provide:
. Training and employment for adults with disabilities in sheltered workshops and enterprises;
. Support in group homes for adults with disabilities;
. Transport for children, youth and adults with disabilities across the whole country, with headquarters in day centres;
. A counselling service for children and their parents, youth and adults with disabilities;
. Rehabilitation and therapy programmes for children and their parents, youth and adults with disabilities;
. Informational system and publishing activities: The PET magazine, a quarterly newsletter called "Have you heard" and
leaflets (giving general or specific subject information, brochures etc.), distributed to Notice stands in post offices and clinics;
. Library with books, journals, videos and toys.
We have also internet forums where our professionals answer on actual questions which concerns problem of disabled people. One forum
is on our home page
www.soncek.org, the other is on
http://med.over.net/phorum/list.php?f=138.