The CPB will exhibit for a second successive year at the Reatech event, which begins tomorrow and runs until Sunday (April 15) at São Paulo Exhibition Centre.

Its stand at the event will feature a range of interactive activities as well as autographs of some of the country's leading athletes and demonstrations of Paralympic sports.

Goalball (pictured below), sitting volleyball, wheelchair fencing (pictured bottom) and judo are among those sports that will be shown to visitors.


Reatech is designed to offer solutions to those with physical, mental, visual and audial disabilities.

In Brazil 15 per cent of the population has a disability and 500 people are newly diagnosed with such conditions each day.

More than $1 billion (£630 million/€765 million) is spent every year on rehabilitative products, such as wheelchairs and other motor equipment, for the disabled.

Congressmen, councillors and athletes are among the expected 45,000 visitors to the exhibition.


Beijing 2008 gold medal-winning swimmers Daniel Dias and André Brasil will also attend the event alongside sprinter Terezinha Guilhermina, who also struck gold in China in the women's T11 200 metres.

The trio plans to be in London this summer striving hard to help Brazil reach its target of finishing seventh in the overall medals table at the Paralympic Games.

Brazil was ninth in Beijing four years ago, winning 16 gold medals in the process.

The success of Reatech has been such that there are plans to replicate it in India, Russia and China.

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