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Volleyball League (Disabled) Organization Impact of WSI fund assist in Cambodia
goes beyond sport. Policy ANZ Royal CNVLD Wheelie Grand
Prix Welcomes First All Female Team
After five days of training, the WSI Battambang Racing Team joined the five other teams from around Cambodia on a publicity ride around Battambang City on Friday 28th September and competed in the ANZ Royal - CNVLD Wheelie Grand Prix 200m Female Race on Saturday 29th September. The five athletes raced in the 200m Female Heat One and put in great first time performances with Ms Lao Thyda placing 6th out of 12 Female Athletes in only her first race with a time of 59.97 seconds. WSI Battambang Ladies Racing Team 200m Times: The CNVLD wishes to thank ICRC for their support and assistance in establishing the first all-female wheelchair racing team in Cambodia. The ANZ-Royal – CNVLD Wheelie Grand Prix salutes the WSI Battambang Ladies Racing Team and looks forward to welcoming them back to the ANZ Royal –CNVLD 3rd Round Race at the Olympic Stadium at the opening ceremony of the 2007 WOVD Cambodia Volleyball World Cup
The CNVLD initiated the Racing Wheelchair programme in 2004 in acknowledgement of the exclusion to date of Cambodian Women with a Disability from professionally managed national sports activities. In 2007, with the programme having achieved corporate sector sustainability in just three years thanks to the sponsorship by ANZ Royal Bank, there are now ten Female Athletes with a Disability competing in the teams Phnom Penh, Kompong Speu and Kompong Chhnang representing one third of all the athletes currently engaged in the programme. The CNVLD welcomes Ms. Kem Sokhom (Kompong Speu), Ms Sok Vannak and Ms. Long Sreylen (Phnom Penh) and Ms Chak Riya (Kompong Chhnang) to the ANZR-CNVLD Wheelie Grand Prix and wishes them all the best for the 2007 season. Ms. Touch Nary, 23, a double amputee from Kompong Speu and the reigning Female ANZR-CNVLD Champion, has, through her second place at the 11th Angkor Wat International Half Marathon and appearances in the Cambodian media with pop superstar Ronan Keating during his visit to the CNVLD office, been a great inspiration to a new generation of young Female Athletes with a Disability. Ms. Bun Sokun, one of the most promising female athletes, who joined the Phnom Penh Racing Team in April 2007 said “My relatives from Kompong Cham province visited Phnom Penh and asked me “What has happened to you? Before you always looked sick but now you look much stronger and much happier”. I told them, now I am an athlete”. All ten of the inspirational female athletes will soon be provided with the new Angkor Racer II, the second generation of Cambodia’s only locally designed and produced racing wheelchair currently in production. These new chairs will be provided thanks to the generous support of WomenSport International and the Women’s International Group of Cambodia who have each provided funds for six Angkor Racer IIs. With a new club soon to be established in Battambang prior to the 2nd Round of the ANZR-CNVLD Wheelie Grand Prix 2007, the remaining chairs donated by these respective organisations will be provided to the female athletes joining the Battambang club. The CNVLD will continue to encourage more Cambodian Female Athletes with a Disability to join the ANZR-CNVLD Wheelchair Racing Programme with the intention of sending one female athlete to the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. The CNVLD – Getting more Cambodian Female Athletes with a Disability ‘On the Move’
Thank you from Cambodia - The CNVLD salutes WSI for their support for the Cambodian Women Wheelchair Racers. December 3 2006 - UN International
Day for Persons with a Disability: Cambodian Wheelchair
Racers Take Phnom Penh by Storm The CNVLD Wheelchair Racing Programme
- Women on the Move The CNVLD recognise the importance of involving
women with a disability in sporting activities and that, to date,
there has been little opportunity available for Cambodian female
PWD's to participate in Disability sporting activities. In recognition
of this need to develop It has been clearly identified that women are
more comfortable with wheelchair sporting activities hence the focus
on a women's wheelchairs sports program linked with each Volleyball
league clubs program. Three trial clubs will be established that
will work in cooperation with their respective Volleyball League
clubs including the sharing of team The trial clubs will be located at: a. The Kien Klaeng National rehabilitation Centre
- "The Sunway Racers"
Photos by Michael Huber Despite a village of eyes fastened onto her
every move, Moun retained a gently dignity as she enacted a typical
day for the camera. Through photographic documentation the mundane
trivialities of daily life for a disabled athlete become bait to
lure potential donors into pledging their support to the project.
Moun however, is concerned only with helping The front of her stilted wooden house serves
as a shop: Chocolate wafers and dried meat hang in plastic bags
from the beams overhead. Moun manages to eek out a living from selling
snacks to hungry villagers; costing only 100 riel. Her wares are
cheap enough for the average Cambodian to afford. However, it does
not provide sufficient income: To Moun was given a wheelchair two years ago by
an NGO, however, it soon broke and she has not been able to fix
it. The lack of a wheelchair does not impede her movement; she climbs
carefully down the wooden ladder which constitutes her front door
and points out the muscle With flip-flops on her hands Moun makes her
way across the ground to the nearby water pump. Her movement is
elegant and well practiced: She may be one of the fastest of the
CNVLD's Wheelchair athletes on the track, yet at home (without a
wheelchair) she has an unhurried, careful gait. Moving around a
typical Cambodian village is often easier without a Yet while her home environment may be ill suited
to wheelchair use, the smooth tarmac roads in the nearby town are
the perfect surface for Moun to shoot along in her CNVLD designed
and manufactured racing wheelchair. Whether dexterously manoeuvring
herself on her hands, or spinning her wheelchair proficiently, Moun
is determined to live her life
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ICRC
identified five suitable females from their patient register, the
DOSB-CNVLD Advisor managed the initial training of the team and
WSI have provided funding for the production of
Racing Wheelchairs for Cambodian Female Athletes with a Disability.
The WSI Battambang Ladies Racing Team is the first of its kind in
Cambodia and the CNVLD will establish more female teams in provincial
locations in 2008.
CNVLD
gets more Women ‘On the Move’
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