PSA – Long Term Partner of the Belgian Paralympic Committee (BPC)

Since July 2008 PSA has become a partner of the Belgian Paralympic Committee (BPC) for 5 years!

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Various reasons have made us decide upon a partnership with the BPC. The BPC’s activities cover fields such as sports, social activities and activities for the Young. In addition this is a mature, but dynamic organisation. As such our partner perfectly fits the framework that was set out for this sponsoring project.

Another factor was the timing: PSA wanted to enter an engagement for 5 years. Hence the motto ‘From Paralympics to Paralympics’.

The BPC does more, however, than organising top-class sport for the disabled. Through her Flemish and Walloon branches, of which PSA will work with the ‘Vlaamse Liga voor Gehandicaptensport’ (the Flemish branch), the BPC supports clubs and their operations for disabled athletes on all levels.

On an annual basis PSA provides a minimum budget of 20.000 euros for the BPC. We also connect our logo with that of the BPC: on the website, in brochures and on other documents.

During this partnership PSA supports the BPC not only financially. PSA and its employees, as a team, follow the activities of the BPC and the performances of their athletes with great interest.

Moreover, our employees also get the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the different sports and support the partnership through volunteer work.

Paralympics in Londen in 2012

In order to further stimulate its' staff envolvement in BPC, PSA has launched a contest for its employees. Employees that sign up as volunteers to support one of the BPC events throughout 2011 can win a trip to the Paralympics in London in 2012.

The staff reacted positively to this initiative, with several employees signing up as volunteers. At the start of September as many as 6 volunteers supported the organization of the East Flanders Goalball Cup. The Belgian National team won this event, which was a perfect preparation for the European Championship scheduled for October 2011 in Denmark. Goalball is an indoor team sport for people with a visual limitation, whereby 3 players of each team will try to roll a ball into the goal of the other team. Defense is done with the entire body. The ball makes noise, which allows the blindfolded players to locate it.