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o o o o o o o o o HEALTH AND SOCIETY “We have about 300 people with special needs who are active in sports,” he said. “Our aim is to promote sports among these people and give them an opportunity to live a normal life. “The federation facilitates are not only for the adults: we have children from the age of 12 years from other schools who are given training,” he added The festival featured a number of events and saw wide participation from both the disabled and others. It began with a friendly football match between two teams comprising people with mental disabilities. Goal ball, a special game for the blind using perforated balls with a bell inside also attracted much attention. The players had to prevent goals being scored by tracking the ball’s movement by sound. Cultural events, and other games for people with different kinds of disabilities, besides cultural events, were also held. “Qatar gives great importance to these kinds of activities, ” said Mr Al Jabber. “We have a number of organisations for people with special needs which are actively involved with QOC and are supporting all our activities.” Paralympic athletes took centre stage at the Qatar Sports Club. GSF WARNS TEENS AGAINST drug use THE united natioNS AND Qatar’s olympic authorities are SHOWING the SPORTING world NEW WAYS TO RESPOND TO drug use AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and several Qatar-based organisations put together a series of awareness programmes in Doha to mark the ‘International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’ on June 26. The campaign was first launched by the United Nations General Assembly in 1987 and this year, as in the past, was targeted towards youth and students, under the theme, “Do drugs control your life? Your life. Your community. No place for drugs”. In response to the global problem, the Global Sport Fund (GSF), the Qatari fund set up by the QOC and UNODC to encourage young people to lead a healthy lifestyle, is also launching a unique attempt at drug use prevention to support youth-in-sport projects in several countries. Young people will be encouraged to take up amateur sports to promote healthy lifestyles that include being part of a coaching programme in which they practice fair play on the field and essential social values and related life skills off it. For this, a number of camps with participants taking part from over 30 countries are set to take place in Africa, Asia and South America by the end of 2008. QOC became the first sports entity in the world to join hands with UNODC in establishing the Global Sport Fund (GSF) in 2005. “QOC is the only national Olympic committee in the world to join UNODC for such a venture,” said Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Secretary General of QOC. “We started the Schools Olympic Day, a feat lauded by the IOC, and we feel equally satisfied by backing a programme, which is exclusively devised to supporting the youth of the world.” Among the events that took place on June 26, the Permanent Committee on Drugs and Alcohol Affairs, on behalf of the Qatar government, conducted exhibitions, presentations and lectures to raise awareness among the public on the dangers of using drugs, while a campaign by the Indian Anti-Smoking Society raised awareness of the dangers of smoking in their community. Public lectures on the dangers of drug-abuse formed part of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26. 30 QatarSport Q3.08
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