Unlike people with physical disabilities, many ID sportspeople do not have access to appropriate education that specifically addresses their needs.
FECASD is trying to change these attitudes some by doing outreach to people with intellectual disabilities using sports as a vehicle to better their lives.
[8] Special Olympics first arrived in Cameroon in 1995, with the goal of assisting people with intellectual disabilities to fully integrate into Cameroonian society.
In 2013, FECASDI hosted a regional conference where issues about the development of ID sport in Africa were discussed.
One of the major issues brought up by Aléokol and International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS) Executive Director Nick Parr was that there were no ID athletes from Africa who competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
[8] In 2014, New Zealand professor Jan Burns traveled to Cameroon as part of an Agitos Foundation funded project to talk about capacity creation for ID sports in the region.
The workshop was attended by 40 total people from several countries including Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic and Chad.
[15] The government has made a commitment that sports for people with intellectual disabilities are to be played under decent condition, reaffirming this position at the national championships in 2015.
[2] INAS has suggested that funding does not need to be a major issue in the develop of ID sports in Cameroon and the rest of Africa.
[8] Inside Cameroon though, FECASDI President Aléokol has spent large amounts of his own money in order to support ID athletes.
In ID football, Cresas de Garoua came away winners after defeating Central Region 2–1 in the final.
The national ID sports federation in Cameroon had to pay a penalty of €11,000 (7,150,000 XOF) for their non-participation.
The organizations's Secretary General Emmanuel Wonyu expressed concern at that time that they might be suspended by INAS and wanted to avert that from happening.
[22][23] Cameroon was scheduled to send a delegation to the 2014 INAS World Indoor Athletics Championships that took place from February 28 to March 2 in Reims, France.
[24] The team was scheduled to depart on February 25, and included Salomon Oyono, Effa Théophile, Josée Onguene, Cyrille Tsanga, Eric Nfendeu, Salomon Amougou, Nathan Onana Awono and Elysée Onguene.