Ontario Deaf Sports Association Inc

The Purpose and Objectives:

The purpose and objectives for ODSA, as established in the Letters, Patent, 1983 are:
 

A. To promote and facilitate the practice of amateur sports among hearing impaired
people in Ontario.
 

B. To select and improve, through the help of various athletic associations and
hearing-impaired organizations, hearing impaired athletes who are seemingly
capable of participating in an annual sporting championship for the hearing
impaired and Ontario Summer/Winter Games, organized by the Corporation,
Provincial and National Summer/Winter Games, organized by the World
Summer/Winter Games for the Deaf, Pan-American Games for the Deaf and
Canada Deaf Sports Association.
 

C. To collect membership fees, donations, legacies grants and other contributions.
 

D. To acquire by purchase, rental or otherwise, such equipment and facilities as may
be necessary for the practice of sports among its members in accordance with the
aims of the Corporation.
 

E. To encourage the development and affiliation of hearing-impaired sports
associations across Ontario, e.g. regional, to assist the work of the Corporation in
activities such as membership, tournaments and competitions; to engage in
publicity projects for the purpose of Provincial fundraising campaigns.