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2017 Golisano Global Health Leadership Award Honoree: Universidad Cientifica del Sur (FCS)

2017 Golisano Global Health Leadership Award Honoree: Universidad Cientifica del Sur (FCS)
Universidad Cientifica del Sur – Escuela de Estomatología (FCS) is one of seven honorees of the 2017 Golisano Global Health Leadership Award. The university works in partnership with Special Olympics Peru.
Community Impact

Simran's Journey to the Global Youth Summit

A young man and young woman light a candle together.
For the past five years Simran Sahni, a Youth Leader from Special Olympics Bharat, has been on the front lines of the inclusion revolution.
Press Releases

Allison+Partners Support Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023

Group of people standing in front of Berlin 2023 signage.
As part of its global commitment to advocating for inclusion alongside Special Olympics, the Allison+Partners German team has sent a team of PR volunteers to the World Games
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Special Olympics and Refugees: Bridging Communities Through Sports

Two players shake hands and smile after a football match with athletes in the background.
The Special Olympics' "Unified with Refugees" initiative is breaking down barriers and fostering connections between Special Olympics athletes and refugee communities across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Community Impact

Coach Wilson Chua Takes Inspiration from Son and Impacts Special Olympics Virginia Community

By RJ Nealon, September 27, 2021
Four people smile at the camera at a Special Olympics event.
Gathered inside the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey for the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games Opening Ceremony, excitement filled the air as each state delegation was announced.
Athletes

Kayla Cornell Has a Message for Fellow Special Olympics Athletes: Let’s Get Healthy Together

By RJ Nealon, March 26, 2022
A Special Olympics athlete stands in a kitchen. She's cutting vegetables.
Kayla Cornell is the head chef in her cooking class for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Dorothy Okatch

Dorothy Okatch, Basketball Official, World Games Abu Dhabi 2019
Special Olympics Africa, Basketball Official, World Games Abu Dhabi 2019
Sport Partnerships

Michael Phelps Foundation

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Our partnership will support us in not only raising the number of certified swimming coaches who support the hundreds of thousands of Special Olympics Swimmers, but more importantly will help to raise the standard of coaching provided to them.
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Special Olympics Ireland is a sports organization for people with an intellectual disability, but it provides athletes with far more than the physical benefits of sport. Special Olympics changes lives. Through sport, athletes develop both physically and emotionally, they make new friends, realize their dreams, and know they can fit in. Special Olympics Ireland enables our athletes to achieve and win not only in sport but in life too.


It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.

Download the Special Olympics Ireland Fact Sheet.
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