“Rwanda’s Road to Rio” chronicles Dutch coach Peter Karreman’s daring mission to build Africa’s first Paralympic-qualifying women’s sports team from scratch: the Rwandan National Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team to compete at Rio 2016. Starting with rookies who faced stigma, poverty and poor infrastructure, Karreman’s brutal camps in Rwanda, Slovenia, the Netherlands and China forged raw talent into a team that will take the world by storm. surprised. The book exposes systemic barriers for disabled African women and proves the transformative power of sport: increasing mobility, health, confidence and global exposure. Rwanda’s National Paralympic Committee has turned sitting volleyball into a national catalyst, breaking sub-Saharan exclusion and inspiring grassroots programs across Africa. The project brought about federations, classification reforms and inclusive competitions across the continent. Globally, it is redefining development: resource-poor countries can make the leap to elite levels through vision, partnerships and cultural exchange. A small country’s triumph rewrote the African sporting story and lit a torch for the next thousand hills.
World ParaVolley is proud of this legacy and the example it sets for development.
Read Peter Karreman’s book Rwanda’s road to Rio here
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