
Saturday public association “The Republican Association of Wheelchair Users” held a sports celebration in Minsk. The event was devoted to Nikolai Ignatievich Kolbasko, a legendary Belarusian wheelchair user.
The event included sport competitions, workshop sessions, exhibitions, a traditional army dish (gruel, specially cooked for the soldiers) and a special program for children with the locomotor system disorders.
The aim of the sports celebration was to promote active lifestyles and physical exercises among wheelchair users and to create a site for communication, cooperation, exchange of experience in wheelchair users integration and rehabilitation.
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