The “Non-Stop Basket Solidário” sports marathon, promoted by the ParaSport association on December 22nd and 23rd at the Aqua Portimão Shopping Centre, yielded a total of 644,77 euros, intended to enable its basketball team in a wheelchair. wheels continue to compete in the National Championship of the modality.
The ParaSport team faces great difficulties to participate in the South Zone of the National Wheelchair Basketball Championship, to the point of being committed to maintaining the competition, so the association remains open to the solidarity of all who wish to support this project, owing to For this purpose, contact the responsible André Leman, via mobile phone 966 071 051.
Last weekend's awareness-raising action, which had the support of the Portimão City Council, also served to publicize the work carried out by ParaSport, created in 2004 with the aim of encouraging the practice of sports in the Algarve with carriers. of motor disability.
Comprised of 12 players aged between 16 and 55 years, mainly with spinal cord injuries or amputations, this wheelchair basketball team trains every Tuesday and Thursday, from 20:30, in the pavilion of the Sports Complex of Mexilhoeira Grande and includes players from the geographical area between Aljezur and Loulé.
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