One of the programs of the Shafallah Center for people with disabilities, in cooperation with the Qatar Tennis, Squash and Exchange Federation, best buddies Qatar organized the racket Games Festival (blow...blow)

The event is considered one of the most prominent and successful opportunities that allow people with disabilities to participate in real social integration experiences. Sports and recreational activities are the real key to giving them the greatest possible self-confidence and effective and positive communication to form friendships.

  On this occasion, Mrs. Mashael Ali Al-Misnad, director of the best buddies Qatar program, stated that the festival aims to promote values in integrated social and sports integration and develop those values through the social skills of the participants to enhance their social interaction with various situations, which increases the opportunities for effective communication and social interaction. Al-Misnad also said that the festival seeks to raise awareness of the local community and change its attitudes and the extent of acceptance of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

  In this context, the director of the best buddies Qatar program stressed that the festival's slogan (Blow By Blow) is to promote social sports integration and the development of motor and social skills of people with disabilities by the nature of partnership between people with disabilities and their peers in the community and the fact that racquet games have the property of communication because they are played in singles and doubles. She said that the target group of the festival are members of the skills development program with intellectual and developmental disabilities as organizers and pointed out that the number of participants in the festival reached fifty participants representing the clubs of Best Buddies Qatar(citizen) and clubs of middle and high schools.

On the other hand, the festival's activities included several sports stations, including the tennis station, the fitness station and the padel games station.

At the end of her statement, Mrs. Mashael Ali Al-Misnad, director of the best buddies Qatar program, praised the efforts of the Qatar Tennis, Squash and Bar Association to support the activities and events of the best buddies Qatar program in the field of social sports integration.