when jafreena sprinted to the finish racing ahead of all her competitors her schoolmates jumped up and cheered in silence with only a cluster of hands in the air waving excitedly but jafreena knew they were giving her a thunderous applause none of us can speak or hear explained jaffreena in sign language we clap with a wave jafreena from the csi school for the deaf was part of around 300 students from over 20 special schools in the city who participated in a sports meet for the differently abled on saturday the meet was held to celebrate the spirit of world disability day december 3 apart from the winners we are giving out medals and certificates to every participant said sathya moorthy from chennai social service which has been organising the event for a couple of years while jafreena was celebrating her win with her friends and pepping one of them up for a skipping race in another part of the field b shruti was happy with her third place in the 10m walking race which took her over 30 seconds to complete shruti is mentally challenged so just being able to walk the stretch is an achievement says her teacher at vijay human services school d ezhilarasi who was there along with 20 of her colleagues to cheer on their students while the events were happening 12yearold danish ahmed also from vijay human services sat in the shade of a tree indulging in his favourite pastime sketching after participating in the 100m dash in which he came in last danish with just a ballpoint pen and notepad was busy churning out caricatures of former chief minister m karunanidhi his son m k stalin and the late chief minister m g ramchandran and a little line drawing of a running race in which he was coming in first all in the spirit of the day