German disabled sports youth
| German disabled sports youth | |
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| Founded | October 12, 1985 |
| Chairman | Lars Pickardt |
| Members | 33,860 |
| Association headquarters | Cheeky |
| Official languages) | German |
| Homepage | www.dbs-npc.de/dbsj-aktuelles.html |
The German Disabled Sports Youth (DBSJ) is the youth organization of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS).
history
The development of sport for children and young people with disabilities began in the early 1980s and became official when the DBSJ was founded in 1985.
aims
The promotion of young people with disabilities is an essential task, the special importance of which is expressed through a separate youth organization within the DBS. The German Disabled Sports Youth runs and administrates itself independently within the framework of the statutes and regulations of the DBS. The DBSJ has set its goals and principles in its own youth regulations.
Through the work of the DBSJ, as many children and young people as possible should have access to sport. Because sport is also an interesting leisure activity for young people: sport offers exercise, games, fun, adventure, shared experiences and much more. Sport promotes mobility, contributes to independence, strengthens self-confidence, breaks down inhibitions and creates many contacts.
It therefore wants to create the opportunity for as many children and young people with disabilities as possible to do sport and thus contribute to personal development, promote social and psychophysical development, stimulate social commitment and contribute to integration through encounters and sporting events with non-disabled children and young people and through Contact with foreign groups to arouse and cultivate the willingness for international understanding.
Paralympic youth camp
Since the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona , the German Disabled Sports Youth has organized a Paralympic youth camp for every game. This camp has set itself the goal of giving athletic, performance-oriented young people an incentive by attending the competitions and meeting their athletic role models in person to train even more intensively in the next few years in order to actively participate in the next Paralympics . For athletes and participants in such a camp who are more interested in popular sporting activities or who want to get actively involved in youth work in their club or national association, the Paralympics experience is intended to address other young people in terms of social talent and to encourage them to work in the club integrate.
In addition to daily visits to various competitions and meetings with the German athletes in the stadiums, the program of the Paralympic youth camps also includes getting to know the host country and joint sporting and cultural activities. Due to the increasing public interest in the Paralympic Games, the youth camp is also moving more and more into the focus of journalists and politicians, so that visits by politicians are on the program more and more frequently.
In Athens 2004 the 4th Paralympic Youth Camp acquired an international character through the participation of Austria and Turkey. For the Paralympic Winter Games 2010, a youth camp was held for the first time in winter. The last Paralympic youth camps took place in Sochi in 2014 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Membership survey DBSJ 2016. (PDF; 33 kB) German Disabled Sports Association, accessed on March 20, 2018 .