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Agnieszka Krukowska, left in photo, organized an event as part of the Special Olympics Get Into It™ initiative. [Photo by Adam Nurkiewicz]
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Agnieszka Krukowska,17, has been a Special Olympics Poland volunteer since she was 7 years old. Among the highlights of her experience with the Movement was volunteering at the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland. "When I returned home, I told my friends about my experience and explained to them why Special Olympics is important, she said.
Krukowska served as the main organizer of a 3 October 2003 event where her high school, in Warsaw, Poland, invited Special Olympics athletes who were participating in Europe/Eurasia’s Regional Sports Conference to an assembly of approximately 70 students. The event, organized as part of the Special Olympics Get Into It™ initiative (a free service-learning curriculum celebrating diversity), marked the start of a Partner’s Club between the students and a local special school.
"After meeting the athletes and learning more about Special Olympics, many of [my friends] said they want to be Special Olympics volunteers,” Krukowska said.
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