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David Evangelista, Special Olympics Regional President & Managing Director, Europe Eurasia

David S. Evangelista

Senior Advisor for International Development, Special Olympics, Inc.

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Inclusion, Solidarity and Sport - New Model for a New Time

Early November, on the island of Bonaire, a Local Organizing Committee, together with the national government of the Netherlands invested in a new, innovative, and transformative model of development through sport programming for youth with intellectual and development disabilities.
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Leaving Ukraine—How One Little Girl Defied the Odds

She was given-up upon birth once her parents recognized she had a severe and profound intellectual disability. She was left on the doorsteps of a Ukrainian orphanage—mostly invisible to the outside world and largely forgotten, too.
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COVID-19 Teaches Us about the Need for a Unified Approach to Health

Could World Health Day 2020 mark a milestone in global health history? Perhaps, but not in the way that one might immediately imagine.
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