Table Tennis Academy in Yangon, have started “We Can” project in collaboration with Aye Myittar Center for Children with disability. The “We Can” project is the follow up to my initial sporting interventions with the Aye Myittar Center starting in 2019. So far, we have donated many used uniforms, some table tennis rackets, a hundred of used rubbers, table tennis balls and two table tennis tables to the center. We also introduced “Takkyu Volley”, which is an adopted game for children and people with severe disabilities.
It was in March, 2020, volunteers of YU Table Tennis Club joined this initiative to provide coaching support to those children of Aye Myittar Center.
Since then, Covid-19 has been preventing people from moving and most activities had become inactive. In addition, the security situation has also deteriorated.
Today, a hope has returned to the children with disability in Aye Myittar Center to have an access to opportunities to learn how to play table tennis thanks to the newly started Table Tennis Academy.
One coach and a player with disability from the Aye Myittar Center for children with disability has just started a weekly table tennis class at the Table Tennis Academy through “We Can” Project.
It is our sincere hope that the coach and the player will become the first role models to pave the way for other children with disabilities to enjoy sporting, table tennis, through the “We Can” project.
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