Major steps by FEI award winner

Soraya Ourrais, the Franco-Moroccan winner of the FEI Development Award 2011, has laid the bar real high for this category of the FEI Awards, for which nominations opened final week.

The FEI Development Award rewards an individual, scheme or projection that has inwards about agency made equestrian sport accessible to a wider public.

“Development is oft an run a endangerment that takes house far from everyone as well as everything,” Ourrais said recently. “This honour enabled me to brand our projection known on a bigger scale as well as accept business office inwards a superb gala eventide where I was surrounded past times equestrian professionals.”

Ourrais won the Development Award for her huge contribution to the revival of equestrian sport inwards Cambodia, where it had disappeared completely inwards the 1970s nether the Central Khmer Rouge regime.

Recruited inwards French Republic inwards 2004 via an equestrian website, Ourrais’ mission to assist prepare Cambodia’s kickoff equestrian middle morphed into a seven-year demonstration of resourcefulness as well as commitment.

Ourrais was the solely professional person passenger inwards Cambodia. An FEI Level 1 coach, she trained grooms, 350 novice riders as well as the kickoff Cambodian teacher as well as judge. For this province amongst no equine veterinarians, she travelled to neighbouring nations for advice as well as established a network for the provision of medicine as well as vaccines. Later, she initiated the grooming of ii veterinarians.

She besides prepare the Cambodian Pony Welfare Association as well as Horse Future, a programme that benefits underprivileged children as well as has provided Kingdom of Cambodia amongst many of its national equestrian squad members. In parallel, she tirelessly promoted equestrianism past times organising schoolhouse trips, youth camps as well as courses. Thanks to Ourrais’ commitment, the Cambodian Equestrian Federation was created inwards 2007.

Ourrais hopes the Cambodian national squad volition compete inwards the 2013 Southeast Asian Games inwards Burma. Commenting on equestrian evolution projects, she said: “For me, they are essential to the fruitful evolution of the equestrian pyramid, correct upwardly to the highest levels of competition: they are its base.”

Nominations for this year’s FEI Development Award, every bit good every bit for the Best Groom, HSBC Rising Star, Reem Acra Best Athlete as well as Against All Odds categories of the FEI Awards, tin go made at www.feiawards.org.

 

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