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Welcome
to Abilympics Australia
The
Abilympics movement was founded in the 70s in Japan: it is
a wide spectrum of activities intensively supporting the employment
of people with disabilities. The supreme international authority
of this movement is the International Abilympic Federation
(IAF) with its headquarters in Japan.
One
of the activities of the IAF are the Intrnational Abilympics,
regular organisation of world workskill events for people
with disabilities. The aim of those competition is to encourage
people with disabilities to take active part in the labour
market by improving their vocational skills. All participants
have an opportunity to demonstrate their standard of workmanship
in open competition with disabled people from other countries,
i.e. on an international level. Final results depend exclusively
on the quality of the performance.
Special
discussion and lectures aimed at various aspects of the lives
of people with disabilities organised during the IA. A rich
programme of social and cultural events is an integral part
of the competition.
The
1st IA was held in Japan in 1981. The competition was then
organised by Columbia in 1988, the 3rd IA took place in Hong
Kong in 1991. The 4th PERTH Australia 1995, 5th PRAGUE Czech
Republic 2000, 6th NEW DELHI India 2003 and 7th SHIZUOKA Japan
2007.
Patron
- in - Chief
His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery
AC CVO MC (Retd)
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
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President:
Nadine Mother-Brown |
The late inaugural founder of Abilympics Australia Inc.
John Fisher AM Cit. WA |
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