The Deporte and Desafio Foundation (Sports and Challenge Foundation) is a private, non-profit, apolitical organization whose primary objective is the social integration of physically, mentally, visually and/or hearing challenged people through specially adapted sports and outdoor activities.

The Foundation also contributes more actively to the vocational training and labour orientation of our participants. We could then alternate the organization of sports activities with courses focused on disabled people’s insertion in the labour market, making easier their complete integration.

The Deporte and Desafio Foundation´s (D&D) efforts focus on the development and implementation of specially adapted sports which challenge disabled people, such as: snow and waterskiing, sailing, cycling, scuba diving, horseback riding, golf, camps and more. We encourage the involvement of family and friends since they are an integral part of the participants´ lives.

The goal of the D&D Foundation is to eliminate barriers which prevent a handicapped athlete from participating in the sports that they would like to practice. Being actively involved in sports increases the disabled person´s freedom, promotes independence, and helps them discover, along with their families, their social, mental and athletic potential.

The basis of the D&D Foundation´s motto is:
“If I can do this, I can do anything.”