Ogrojatra Taable Tennis School at Betaga, Bagerhat, Bangladesh

 Ogrojatra Table tennis school located in Betaga, Bagerhat. It is only of it’s kind in Bangladesh because this school is run by a wheelchair user. SHI started this initiative in October 2017 to showcase the society that inclusion of disabled person is not that difficult if you empower their skills. A spinal cord injury forced  Mehedi Hasan to stay in a wheelchair for his daily activities. SHI empower him by providing training now he is working as a coach of this school with 59 students and among them, 3 junior table tennis player from his school got selected to represent Bagerhat District and participate in the grassroots table tennis talent hunt competition at Khulna BKSP. Three of them respectively placed 10, 11, 12 position in the national Talent Identification project 2018 and participating in one-month long table tennis conditioning camp. This School also gives him the opportunity to practice regularly to keep his dream alive to represent Bangladesh in International events.

 

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