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New Direction, Libya Welcomes Umpires Course Promotes Female Participation |
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By:
Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor |
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Increased female participation
Photo By: Courtesy of Mohammed Bassyoni
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05/02/2012
Situated in North Africa, Libya is gradually recovering from a period of turmoil, the fall of the dictatorial regime of Muammar Gaddafi resulting in the end of a Civil War that has claimed an estimated a period 30,000 Libyan lives.
A National Transitional Government in place, the country is moving towards establishing a democratic constitution and, as in all such situations, sport has a role to play.
Endorsed by the Development Programme of the International Table Tennis Federation, Egypt’s Mohammed Bassyoni is currently in the country’s capital city of Tripoli where he is conducting a Basic Umpires and National Umpires Course.
Four Day Course
It is a self-funded course which started on Tuesday 1st May and will conclude on Friday 4th May 2012.
First Course
Furthermore, it is the first table tennis course to be held since the liberation of the country was celebrated on Sunday 23rd October 2011; also, it is the first course directed by the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee ever to be held in the country.
Attendance
A total of 25 students are in attendance of whom six are women; the course very much preparing seven male and four female candidates for the International Umpires Examination.
Notable is the fact that more women are becoming involved in table tennis in Libya.
Present in Algeria
Libya participated at the recent ITT-African Junior Championships in Algeria and immediately prior to the tournament send four women to the Africa Women’s Course also held in Algeria.
Mohammed Bassyoni was welcomed to Tripoli by members of the National Olympic Committee
Photo courtesy of Mohammed Bassyoni
Equipment Package
After a very bleak time for sport and of course for table tennis, the future is now looking more positive.
Libya is to receive an equipment package from the International Table Tennis Federation under the direction of the ITTF-Africa Development Programme.
Breaking Barrier
Now an increasingly safe country, the past must be not be forgotten but must be resigned to history; it is time to move forward and sport, especially the sport of table tennis which everybody can play, has an important role to play.
Once again the small celluloid ball breaks down barriers and creates opportunities.
Attentive students at the course in Triploli as a new era dawns in Libya
Photo courtesy of Mohammed Bassyoni
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