For people with any type of disability
Find out the sports structure and educational structure in your country! Check their websites and find all the information about sportclubs, activities, list of schools and much more!

Sports Structure of Flanders

In the Dutch Speaking part of Belgium there are 3 sports federations for people with a disability:

1. Vlaams Liga Gehandicaptensport
This is a recognized federation for competitionsports for people with a disability. Together with the French Speaking Federation (FSBAP-WB), they are part of the national Belgian Paralympic Committee (BPC). All sports available for people with a disability can be done in this Flemish Liga. You can find a list of sports, sportclubs on their website, together with the information where to do it and who to contact.

2. Recreas
Recreas is a recognized federation for recreative sports for people with a disability in the Flemish part of Belgium. They organize sportive activities which are ment for both adults as children. More then 40 sportclubs are member of this federation. A lot of these clubs organize activities on their own. The goal is to motivate each individual who wants to play sports. When you click on the ‘activities’ of Recreas you find all the clubs, days of sports, adapted holidays,….

3. Psylos
Psylos is a recognized Flemish federation of sports, life in open air, physical education and social cultural work in the mental health care. There clubs can be found in psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric institutions and so on. Click on their ‘calendar’ to find out what they do, or on ‘workgroups’ to see how they organize everything!

Together with this 3 federations, 5 provincial services are responsible for sports. They have an umbrella website, i.e. vrijetijdsbank, for all kind of activities for people with disabilities. To check out the sportservices for each province seperatly, you can find there sportswebsite here:

1. province Vlaams-Brabant
2. province West-Vlaanderen
3. province Oost-Vlaanderen
4. province Antwerpen
5. province Limburg

4.Special Olympics Belgium (SOB)

Other interesting links

• vospo - Sports for people with a disability in Overpelt
• wapper - Sports for people with a disability in Antwerp
• gsvt - GSV Toekomst
• Vlaamse Federatie van Sportverenigingen voor Hartpatiënten (VFSH) - Sports for hartpatients

Sports Structure of Wallonie

There are three sport federations for people with a disability.

1. Fédération du Sport Belge Adapté et Paralympique - Wallonie-Bruxelles
(FSBAP-WB)
This is a recognised federation for paralympic sports. In cooperation with the Vlaams Liga Gehandicaptensport, the federation is part of the Belgian Paralympic Committee. All sports available for people with a disability can be practised in the numerous clubs: the list of sports and sportclubs can be received from the federation.

2. Fédération Multisports Adaptés (FEMA)
The goal of FéMA is to encourage adapted physical activities in a vision of sports for all, leisure sports, health sports and individual sports. They want to promote sports in different disciplines and different disabilities because everyone has the right to find an adapted sport. The activities of this federation are devoted to leisure and recreative sports. The federation organizes activities for both adults and children with motor, physical or mental disability or multihandicap.

3. Special Olympics Belgium
Special Olympics is an international movement for mentally handicapped. It offers to all of them , starting from the age of 8, the possibilities to exercercise sports and trainingprogrammes and to participate in competitions.
Special Olympics Belgium is a part of this international movement. They organize sportactivities of all different kinds. Every year they organize the National Special Olympics. Here you find sportcompetitions, animation, an art gallery and the Healthty Athlete Program.