Cricket Association of the Blind (CAB Nepal)

About us

The Cricket Association of the Blind, Nepal (CAB, Nepal) is an umbrella organisation for all the blind cricket governing bodies around the country. Established on 16th August 2016 to ensure the right of blind and visually impaired people to play sport and to rehabilitate and empower them by enhancing their access to cricket. It is registered as NGO and is a non-political, non-profit making and exclusively sports-oriented organisation that sets out to promote cricket among the 16,000 blind and visually impaired children and youths in the country.

Vision
Better blind, best community.

Mission
To use cricket as a tool to ensure the right of blind and visually impaired persons to play sports, promote a winning attitude as well as physical and mental robustness, rehabilitate and empower, present blind people in new roles and responsibilities, demonstrate their competence, develop their leadership qualities, discipline and the spirit of sportsmanship spirit and end the gender disparity that is prevalent within the blind community.

Goal
To cultivate a love for and the spirit of cricket among blind and visually impaired Nepalese.

General activities:
• Grassroots cricket development: Under this programme, CAB, Nepal promotes cricket activities in several blind schools and colleges around the country with a primary focus on schoolchildren
• Cricket for girls: Through its separate women’s committee for blind cricket, CAB, Nepal gives equal priority to getting making blind girls to play cricket, and more than 150 have received cricket training to date.
• Tournaments and training
• Revival: This project has been designed to rehabilitate and empower survivors who were blinded during the bitter internal conflicts in the past in Nepal, while also reintegrating other disabled war veterans by involving them on the technical side
• Awareness and advocacy: Since the day of its inception in 2006, CAB, Nepal has endeavoured to raise the awareness of the community and to influence policy making so that disability sports are included as a major project in national policy and programmes. The association interacts with teachers, parents, local communities and children to illustrate the importance of sport for children with visual impairments and other disabilities.

Programs:
• One of the main tasks that CAB, Nepal is engaged in is promoting the great game of cricket in schools and colleges in different districts in Nepal. Moreover, the association conducts sports awareness conferences on the elimination of gender violence in sports as well as interaction with and counseling for blind children and their parents and teachers. In addition, it conducts advocacy, lobbying and intervention programs at the national level with a focus on providing support for jobseekers, establishing educational scholarships and enrolling blind cricketers in income-generating activities.
• CAB, Nepal is pursuing a major plan to make the great game of cricket available to all blind and visually impaired people in Nepal. The association is preparing to organize the world’s second T20 blind women cricket series between Nepal and Pakistan in Nepal in November 2020. Moreover, it will hold national men’s and women’s tournaments as part of its regular activities. Efforts will additionally be made to register more affiliated associations in the different parts of the country.

Pawan Ghimire is the Chairperson of Cricket Association of the Blind, Nepal (CAB, Nepal).

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