The municipality of Macaíba will host, this Saturday (19), the Loterias Caixa 2026 Paralympic Festival, an initiative promoted by the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) that seeks to spread the values of parasport and promote inclusion through sports practice. The event will be held in partnership with the ISD/Macaíba Paralympic Reference Center, linked to the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD). To participate, those interested must register. via online form until September 16th.
The activities will take place starting at 9:00 AM at the Manoel Gomes Gymnasium, in the Cajazeiras District, in Macaíba. The program will feature presentations of three sports: bocce, athletics, and sitting volleyball. A total of 250 places are available for the event.
Held for the first time in 2018 with over 7,000 children, the Paralympic Festival provides recreational and playful experiences in Paralympic sports, as well as promoting the Paralympic Movement throughout the country.
The event aims to promote sports experimentation for children and adolescents with and without disabilities, aged between 7 and 23 years, encouraging inclusion, sports experience and strengthening the Paralympic Movement throughout the country.
Service:
Caixa Lottery Paralympic Festival 2025
Local: Manoel Gomes Gymnasium (BR-226, Cajazeiras District, Macaíba/RN)
Time: 9am
Registrations: Online form available at https://forms.gle/72TJJVHxFsV1QXqK6
Vacancies: 250
Public: children and young people aged 7 to 23 (with or without disabilities)
Modalities: Bocce, track and field, and sitting volleyball.
About ISD
The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) is a Social Organization of the Federal Executive Branch, supervised by the Ministry of Education, with the intervention of the Ministry of Sport. It encompasses the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience and the Anita Garibaldi Center for Education and Research in Health, both located in Macaíba. The ISD's mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research, and outreach activities, as well as contributing to a more just and humane transformation of Brazilian social reality.
