Thank you for participating in this collaborative competition. We value the time and effort you’ve put forth and we would like to offer you feedback and some thought provoking questions from our Evaluation Team.
The National Paralympic Committee of Zambia’s project is positive in the way it raises awareness, reduces discrimination, and improves sport participation for disabled children. While not necessarily innovative, the program has an important focus on a historically neglected segment of the population. The impact to date has been relatively small, and considering the almost entirely government-funded nature of the project, sustainability in the long-term will depend on funding diversification.
Please use this input as both potential insights into your innovations, as well as constructive ideas for how to improve or grow your organization.
I was really pleased to hear that your basketball programme received a boost through a generous donation of used sport wheelchairs from Rotary in SOuth Africa. Congratulations on your successful outreach work.
Can you say something about how you raise money and resources for the NPC and what other groups could learn on how to raise money (and supporters) with a minimal (if non existent) fundraising budget.
How do you manage to make your cause stand out. As our friends from the Carnegie SPorts Group say, there are so many good projects looking for support, you really need to make your programme unique. How do you do that for the Zambian NPC?
Look forward to hearing from you
Take care with the flooding
Heather Cameron
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Hello Lango,
Could you please explain what happens with the corporate basketball games? Who plays and how many people are involved? How are the teams set up? How is the community engaged? Thank you!
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Congratulations on your intiative in Zambia. We need to encourage more programmes like yours to create opportunities for participation and development.
I'd like to hear more about the basketball component to your program. You mentioned that you actively recruit new people to sport by meeting their families and breaking down the individual barriers that are preventing them from being active. Once you manage to get a new player to attend a training session. What happens next? Do you find that people keep coming back or have you maybe tried some different ways to keep people interested? Also, what type of barriers do you think might make it more difficult for women in your community to get involved in your program?
The corporate wheelchair basketball challenge sounds like great way to raise funds to keep your program going as well as to continue to raise awareness and promote positive attitudes towards disability.
I look forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Jackie
Jackie Lauff
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
We are pleased to see that you have set up such a project for people with disabilities in Zambia. In Kenya, Mathare Youth Sports Association is collaborating with, among others, the Kenya National Paralympic Committee to set up a project for people with disabilities as well (check out our competition entry). It might therefore be very helpful to discuss and share our experiences (for example how you deal with the transport problem).
In Kenya, a big challenge is the lack of knowledge in disability issues in general and sport for people with disabilities in particular. That's the reason why MYSA's Kids with Disabilities project will organize a course for volunteers and monthly information meetings within the slums. We were wondering how you plan to raise awareness or are the counseling sessions with the parents meant for that? In that case we would like to know how you intend to reach the other members of the community. The last question focuses on the evaluation of the project. As we understand you intend to use the number of government policies as a measurement of effect of the project. Are you in contact with the government to discuss their policies concerning people with disabilities or otherwise, how do you know that an increase in the number will be the result of your project?
At last, the competition entry of the Motivation Charitable Trust might be very interesting to read since they are planning to produce cheap sports wheelchairs. Good luck with your project and we hope to hear from you.
Pierre and Steffi
Mathare Youth Sports Association
International consultants
Dear Peirre and Steffi,
Thanks for your comments. Transports is a biggest challenge in most african countries because of the transports systems we have. What we are doing is we have approached few transporters were we do cost sharing, they give us the bus and driver we buy fuel to transports our athletes. We have also engaged the Ministry of Transport and Communication to come up with a disability friendly policy on transport, but this is still under discussion. Its until you bring your isssues to the right authorities that things start to move, you demand and not beg, and when you demand quote disability international laws and UN standards and the newly signed UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
I am very much ready to discuss.
I understand that your organization actually goes and visits the families of disabled youths in order to get them involved. I imagine that this allows you to stay in close contact with the communities you´re serving, but on the other hand it´s a very time consuming way of doing things. Now that you´re planning to expand, how will you deal with that? Are you planning to work with volunteers? Are there plans on how to make people come to you rather than the other way round?
Looking forward to hear from you,
Jasper Nicolaisen
Dear Jasper,
Thanks for your concerns, I agree that visiting families is time consuming, but what we need to understand is that until these families are able to see what other disabled are doing are therefore able to be convinced of the potentials in their disabled children and youth. Our program also looks at bringing in parents of disabled children to come and witness what their children can do. Finally we have inclusive sports activities were disabled and non disabled are able to do sport together to raise awareness.
Regards,
Lango
Dear Lango:
Thank you for participating in this collaborative competition. We value the time and effort you’ve put forth and we would like to offer you feedback and some thought provoking questions from our Evaluation Team.
The National Paralympic Committee of Zambia’s project is positive in the way it raises awareness, reduces discrimination, and improves sport participation for disabled children. While not necessarily innovative, the program has an important focus on a historically neglected segment of the population. The impact to date has been relatively small, and considering the almost entirely government-funded nature of the project, sustainability in the long-term will depend on funding diversification.
Please use this input as both potential insights into your innovations, as well as constructive ideas for how to improve or grow your organization.
Warm regards,
The Changemakers Evaluation Team
Hi LangO!
I was really pleased to hear that your basketball programme received a boost through a generous donation of used sport wheelchairs from Rotary in SOuth Africa. Congratulations on your successful outreach work.
Can you say something about how you raise money and resources for the NPC and what other groups could learn on how to raise money (and supporters) with a minimal (if non existent) fundraising budget.
How do you manage to make your cause stand out. As our friends from the Carnegie SPorts Group say, there are so many good projects looking for support, you really need to make your programme unique. How do you do that for the Zambian NPC?
Look forward to hearing from you
Take care with the flooding
Heather Cameron
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Hello Lango,
Could you please explain what happens with the corporate basketball games? Who plays and how many people are involved? How are the teams set up? How is the community engaged? Thank you!
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Hi Lango,
Congratulations on your intiative in Zambia. We need to encourage more programmes like yours to create opportunities for participation and development.
I'd like to hear more about the basketball component to your program. You mentioned that you actively recruit new people to sport by meeting their families and breaking down the individual barriers that are preventing them from being active. Once you manage to get a new player to attend a training session. What happens next? Do you find that people keep coming back or have you maybe tried some different ways to keep people interested? Also, what type of barriers do you think might make it more difficult for women in your community to get involved in your program?
The corporate wheelchair basketball challenge sounds like great way to raise funds to keep your program going as well as to continue to raise awareness and promote positive attitudes towards disability.
I look forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Jackie
Jackie Lauff
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Dear Lango,
We are pleased to see that you have set up such a project for people with disabilities in Zambia. In Kenya, Mathare Youth Sports Association is collaborating with, among others, the Kenya National Paralympic Committee to set up a project for people with disabilities as well (check out our competition entry). It might therefore be very helpful to discuss and share our experiences (for example how you deal with the transport problem).
In Kenya, a big challenge is the lack of knowledge in disability issues in general and sport for people with disabilities in particular. That's the reason why MYSA's Kids with Disabilities project will organize a course for volunteers and monthly information meetings within the slums. We were wondering how you plan to raise awareness or are the counseling sessions with the parents meant for that? In that case we would like to know how you intend to reach the other members of the community. The last question focuses on the evaluation of the project. As we understand you intend to use the number of government policies as a measurement of effect of the project. Are you in contact with the government to discuss their policies concerning people with disabilities or otherwise, how do you know that an increase in the number will be the result of your project?
At last, the competition entry of the Motivation Charitable Trust might be very interesting to read since they are planning to produce cheap sports wheelchairs. Good luck with your project and we hope to hear from you.
Pierre and Steffi
Mathare Youth Sports Association
International consultants
Dear Peirre and Steffi,
Thanks for your comments. Transports is a biggest challenge in most african countries because of the transports systems we have. What we are doing is we have approached few transporters were we do cost sharing, they give us the bus and driver we buy fuel to transports our athletes. We have also engaged the Ministry of Transport and Communication to come up with a disability friendly policy on transport, but this is still under discussion. Its until you bring your isssues to the right authorities that things start to move, you demand and not beg, and when you demand quote disability international laws and UN standards and the newly signed UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
I am very much ready to discuss.
Thanks anf Regards,
Lango
Hi Lango,
I understand that your organization actually goes and visits the families of disabled youths in order to get them involved. I imagine that this allows you to stay in close contact with the communities you´re serving, but on the other hand it´s a very time consuming way of doing things. Now that you´re planning to expand, how will you deal with that? Are you planning to work with volunteers? Are there plans on how to make people come to you rather than the other way round?
Looking forward to hear from you,
Jasper Nicolaisen
-Free University Berlin
Dear Jasper,
Thanks for your concerns, I agree that visiting families is time consuming, but what we need to understand is that until these families are able to see what other disabled are doing are therefore able to be convinced of the potentials in their disabled children and youth. Our program also looks at bringing in parents of disabled children to come and witness what their children can do. Finally we have inclusive sports activities were disabled and non disabled are able to do sport together to raise awareness.
Regards,
Lango
GREAT to see you in Changemakers Lango. Your personal story and the work you are doing are very inspiring. Keep up the energy and spirit.