Plusport Disabled Sports Switzerland

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PluSport Disabled Sports Switzerland is the umbrella organization for Swiss disabled sports . Around 90 sports groups, specialist sports associations and collective members with around 10,000 active members and 2,000 sports directors from Switzerland are affiliated with it.

PluSport is represented in international bodies for disabled sports.

tasks

In around 90 sports clubs in Switzerland, children, adolescents and adults with disabilities have the opportunity to do sports on a regular basis.

Every year, around 110 sports camps for around 1200 children, young people and adults with a disability are organized and co-financed by PluSport. PluSport conducts over 80 training courses every year.

aims

The association wants to enable people with disabilities to take part in sports, taking into account the requirements and circumstances specific to the disabled. The aim and purpose is to promote the integration of people with disabilities through sport. For ambitious athletes, PluSport works to ensure that they can take part in national and international competitions.

Publications

The members' magazine plusPunkt appears 4 times a year with a circulation of around 14,000 copies.

history

On the initiative of a pastor suffering from polio, a movement was launched in 1956 to enable disabled people to take part in regular sports. An initiative committee was founded under the name “Swiss Working Group for Disabled Sports”. Since disabled sports should be organized not only for, but also by disabled people, the working group was transformed into the Swiss Association for Disabled Sports (SVIS) in 1960 and the Swiss Association for Disabled Sports (SVBS) in 1977. The association has been a member of the umbrella organization of Swiss sports, Swiss Olympic, since 1974 .

In 1991/1992 the association was restructured. The goals and principles were reformulated, a model was created, new statutes were adopted and the office in Volketswil was inaugurated. Since then, the association has tried to focus on sport and not on disability.

On January 1, 1994, PluSport and the Swiss Paraplegic Association SPV founded the Swiss Paralympic Committee SPC. In 1995, PluSport founded the Special Olympics Switzerland Foundation together with committed personalities from business, sport and parents' associations.

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