Singing contest for disabled

Singing contest for disabled

SURABAYA: Fifty-four disabled children from 26 provinces
competed in the singing festival at the National Olympics for the
Disabled, Abilympics 1995, which was held here over the weekend.

The coordinator of the festival, Guguk Sudaryati Rahayu, said
over the weekend that the program also included contests in
flower arrangement, cooking, jewelry design and computer
programming.

She told the Antara news agency that each participant in the
singing festival could choose either a music band or karaoke
music as accompaniment.

Some 500 disabled people, including the blind, the mute and
the deaf, from the country's 27 provinces participated in the
four-day Abilympics, which ended yesterday.(imn)