FUSION GAMES, special fun but competitive games, that seek to bring together the disabled and able-bodied together to promote unity, understanding and the can-do spirit among the under-privileged, will soon be launched by the Emperor Gaza International Foundation (EGIF).

Under the theme, “Together we are all able,” FUSION GAMES will be held at the Lizzy Complex at East Legon on January 2, 2012, bringing together many sports and fun clubs across the country to share in the bond that binds us together as one people with a common destiny, irrespective of our physical or social status. The games, with trophies and other prizes at stake, will include Wheel Chair Basketball, Amputee Football, Deaf Football, Dwarf Football, Volleyball as well as able-bodied sports, among others and will be played competitively between the able-bodied and disabled.

As the name implies, the disabled will play against the able-bodied counterpart, as well as fuse together into special teams to play each other, to drive home the message that when both disabled and able-bodied ones live and work together towards common goals, they can achieve them.

EGIF deems it necessary to put these games together, in view of the tendency to alienate the disabled in society by some able-bodied ones instead of living together with them to achieve common goals, and also to remind the world of the fact that, “anybody can become a disabled anytime.”

The games are also in line with Emperor Gaza International Foundation’s objectives of empowering the disabled, the marginalized rural forks, women, children and the aged, under-privileged, unfortunate ones in society by inculcating in them the can-do spirit, in order to integrate them into the mainstream society, for them to play an active role in the overall development of the world.

The Foundation has in recent times been involved in the promotion of Amputee Football, organizing an Exhibition Match for the Ghana National Amputee Football Team, the Black Challenge, as well as sponsoring the Media Launch of the 3rd Cup of African Nations for Amputee Football (CANAF 2011) to be held in Accra in October.

The Media Launch for the FUSION GAMES will be announced soon.

Signed PRINCE CHARLES SACKEYFIO CHAIRMAN