There are an estimated 16 million people with disabilities in Bangladesh or 10% of the country’s population. Access to the education of a person with disabilities is very limited in Bangladesh. This is because of improper physical infrastructure, lack of proper training among the teachers, lack of appropriate teaching-learning materials and lack of assistive devices for both mobility and communications. Due to inaccessible constructions of various establishments, the mobility of persons with disabilities is limited. This is an important contributor to the exclusion of the person with the disability into mainstream development activities. The issue of accessibility for persons with disabilities in buildings and public transport is still not recognised.

On 13 December 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ⁽¹⁾which does not create any new rights for persons with disabilities  they have the same human rights as any other person within the community but instead makes the existing rights inclusive of, and accessible to, persons with disabilities. The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. (1 [Article 1]).

Sports for Hope and Independence (SHI) sports is a gateway of the person with disabilities to integrate with society. Sport empowers Persons with the disability to challenge there comfort zone to make interaction with community people. It helps to reduce negative perception about disability as well as it gives independence to a person with the disability. SHI started a wheelchair basketball program to challenge social barriers by education different skills such as communication, peer activities, physical independence, etc through basketball.