This document outlines a pilot project to teach cycling skills to children with disabilities in Malaysia from September 2013 to December 2013. The project will provide tandem bicycles to allow youth volunteers to mentor and assist children with disabilities like learning disabilities and visual impairments as they learn to pedal, steer, and eventually cycle independently. The goals are to empower youth volunteers, improve cognitive functioning for the children, and build bicycles from recycled parts that are specially designed for children with special needs. The target participants are children with disabilities, center operators, families, and volunteers from colleges and community groups.

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The project is implemented by Challenges, a national magazine
focusing on disability advocacy and community empowerment.
It is supported under the Sport for All programme in collaboration
with Youth Sport Trust UK implemented by British Council Malaysia.
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Pilot project period is September 2013 to December 2013, and to be
reviewed and continued in 2014
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This project will start with children with learning disability and visual
impairment

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Empower youth participants to support and mentor
children with disabilities to learn how to cycle
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Build a bicycle for special need children
Enable them to gain proficiency in cycling so they can
eventually cycle independently
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Improve cognitive functioning,(inc. left-right coordination)
in safe environment with supportive mentor and buddies

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The target participants are centre-based children
with disabilities, centre operators, their family
members and volunteers from colleges and
community

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We will use tandem bicycles, two seater bicycles,
to enable the children who may not have the
opportunity to cycle or know how to pedal and
steer the bicycles; learn to do that.
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Tandem bicycle enable a youth to mentor a child.
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Both of them will control the bicycle and pedal
along but the mentor will control the braking.

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Implementation of this project : Manpower
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All the youth leaders will go for a sports leadership
training (Disability Equality Training and Sportability
leadership training)..
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They will also undergo technical training to assemble,
design and learn the safety measure to build the bicycle.
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4 youth participants each team.
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In collaboration with college students and community
clubs.

7. Implementation of the programme:
Equipment
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For the bicycles; to start a recycling drive for used
bicycles
 We will combine two bicycle into one tandem
bicycle.
 For safety gear: safety helmet and knee pads
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9. We Need:
A
Bicycles or bicycle parts that we can
tandem bicycles.
assemble into
B
Youth leaders / centre-based volunteers
participate
1 to learn how to assemble the bikes
2 to ‘test –cycle’ the bikes;
3 to mentor a child with disability
in cycling
4 to teach other volunteers above steps 1-3
keen to

10. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
OR TO VOLUNTEER
call ZAINAL at
E-mail
: zainalariff86@gmail.com
Tel
: 0197244836
Challenges Media
Room 7 Level 1
Bangunan SECITA,
4A Jalan SS5D/6, Kelana Jaya,
47301 Petaling Jaya Selangor
Tel/Fax
: 603-78875747
E-mail
: mail@challengesmag.com