Seoullim Partner Coway Blue Wheels, Changhyun Elementary School Children's Day Wheelchair Basketball Experience Classes Explode Popularity
May 08, 2025
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Coway Blue Wheels Basketball Team visited Changhyeon Elementary School in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do on the 2nd and conducted a class of 126 sixth-grade students 'Children's Wheelchair Basketball Experience Class'. This wheelchair basketball experience class is a social contribution program designed to convey the correct value of understanding and inclusion of disability through Coway Blue Wheels' talent donation activities and to raise interest and awareness of sports for the disabled.
Coway Blue Wheels visited Changhyun Elementary School for the second time this year after last year. Thanks to the high satisfaction of participating students and the response of schools and parents, this year will continue. Children in Changhyun Elementary School who participated in the experience learned how to operate wheelchairs in real sports wheelchairs and learned the meaning of integrated sports enjoyed by the disabled and non-disabled through mini-games with Blue Wheels players.
Coway Blue Wheels, led by general manager Lim Chan-kyu, is a wheelchair basketball team founded by Coway in 2022 to revitalize sports for the disabled and realize social values, and is the only team run by a private company among the domestic wheelchair basketball business teams. It is the nation's top wheelchair basketball team consisting of former and current national teams with a total of nine wins, including two wins in the wheelchair basketball league championship and the Asia-Oceania club exchange.
Coway Blue Wheels, a strong partner of the Sports Chosun and the Seoul Sports Council for the Disabled, has conducted wheelchair basketball experience programs more than five times a year in connection with various educational institutions during the offseason since its foundation in 2022. So far, a total of 17 activities have been conducted with elementary, middle and high schools, universities and youth organizations, and about 700 students have experienced wheelchair basketball with Blue Wheels.
Director of Changhyun Elementary School Hong Jeong-ki said, "This experience was a valuable opportunity for students to renew their awareness of disability and to respect each other's differences"The realization of hitting with the body and experiencing it directly through sports is greater than anything else," he said. An official from Coway Blue Wheels Wheelchair Basketball Team "We will continue our social contribution activities to spread understanding and empathy for disability through wheelchair basketball." conveyed his will.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
