Sport is a universal language that has a way of bringing people together from all walks of life.
For individuals who are able-bodied, finding the sport of their choice and participating in it, isn't hard to do. But for the children and adults that aren't able-bodied, it can certainly be a challenge.
And it is because of that very reason, that GLASA was born.
GLASA, also known as the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association, is a sports program that eliminates that challenge and provides children and adults with physical and visual impairments, the opportunity to play a sport of their choice stress free.
The organization's mission believes that "no individual's quality of life should be limited by a physical or visual impairment"(GLASA).
Some of the sports it offers are power chair soccer, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair track and field, swimming, wheelchair football and even judo for the blind and visually impaired.
Hector Rodriquez, a father of two sons that participate in GLASA's power chair soccer, says he is so grateful that problems like GLASA exist. He says it gives his sons confidence and allows them to do what they do best: play sports.
"This is amazing. It gives them the opportunity to challenge themselves, to excel, to prove that they can do the same thing that able bodied people can do."
And though it may seem like GLASA just provides an outlet for these individuals to play sports, it does a lot more than that. It allows these individuals to play and help bring out the confidence that they've had all along and shows the rest of the world that they too, are no different from the rest.
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