“The Paralympic Games were an exceptional success: every day, we saw armchairs, amputees, visually impaired people and others on TV… But we already feel that the blow is starting to die down, even though this moment should have been springboard to promote inclusion. »
Stéphane Lansonneur, president of Brest handisport (235 licensees, + 64% in three years), refuses that Paris 2024 is just an enchanted parenthesis: with the departmental committees of Handisport (CDH 29, 550 licensees) and adapted sport (CDSA29, 1,300 practitioners), he has just launched a forum, submitted to associations, clubs and businesses in the region. Entitled “Let’s build the legacy of the Paralympic Games in Finistère”, it gathered nearly 70 signatures in just three weeks.
“It is not normal that today a young person or an adult living in a somewhat isolated municipality has no solution for practicing a sport,” thunders Élisa Roudaut, development manager at CDSA 29. “The departmental committees can support clubs that want to launch into disability. Afterwards, it is a small challenge for the clubs which are launching but the people with disabilities themselves spend their lives adapting. »
“An ambitious challenge”
Sport, while it allows us to “break down barriers and raise awareness of disability”, is not their only hobby horse. “Twenty years after the law for equal rights and opportunities for disabled people, almost nothing has changed in terms of accessibility,” laments Stéphane Lansonneur. Which also points to the question of work, where “disability remains the primary reason for discrimination”.
An inventory which justifies a “general mobilization. Disability concerns or can concern everyone. Everyone must ask themselves the question: what can I do, at my level? », asks Camille Guilloux, at CDH29. “What we are proposing is an ambitious challenge, which sticks to our territory, to its values of solidarity and humanism. »
Contacts
At the Finistère Departmental Adapted Sports Committee, Elisa Roudaut at [email protected]; to the Finistère Departmental Handisport Committee, Camille Guillou at [email protected]
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