 
Contact Address Details:
Gambian Physical Disability
Sports Association
Banjul headquarters
GPDSA c/o GAPD
Secretariat, Marina Parade
PO Box 815A
Banjul
West Africa
Tel no: +220 9923377
9983480, 7790158
9807753
Fax:
4223559
Email:
gambiadisabledsports@yahoo.co.uk
|
|
|
Information:
 The
GPDSA was founded in 1998 and is made up of a group of disabled
Gambian youths who gather every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
for sport and recreation on the KMC training ground, on Kairaba
Avenue, Serrekunda.
The NGO is a non-religious organisation that represents the sporting branch of the
Gambia Association Of The Physically Disabled (GAPD) which set
it up after receiving a large number of requests for recreational
and sporting activities from physically challenged people in order
to improve their health and wellbeing.
The G.P.D.S.A is pledged to providing recreational programs
for disabled persons
and to establish a forum for the exchange of views.
Objectives:
• To provide sporting contests for disabled athletes.
• To
inform the general public about paraplegic sport.
• To create
disabled clubs in each regional council in Gambia.
Present Activities:
• Basket ball games.
• Media awareness of their activities via newspapers, radio &
television.
• Sitting & wheelchair volleyball
Support & Funding:
The association is financed by various sources such as membership
fees, private individuals, sponsorship work, money
raised from ticket fees for tournaments, companies and non-governmental
organisations.
|
