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Tributes

A Letter from HE Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos

She is just great!! and so the movement she created in her own backyard in 1958 in which I belong and work with my heart and soul.
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A Letter from Jamie Wyeth

In 1995 I was asked to create a likeness of Eunice Shriver to be used as "the face" of a U.S. silver dollar commemorating the Special Olympics World Games.
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A Letter from Donna de Varona

You have opened the eyes of millions to the possibility of the human spirit.
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A Letter from Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI

His Holiness unites himself spiritually with each of you at this difficult time, holding close to his heart Eunice as she is called home to eternal life.
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A Letter from Dr. Dicken Yung

The World has lost a Great Mother, a mother who had given so much care and love to countless special people with intellectual disabilities at all fronts.
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A Letter from Ban Ki-moon

Her warm kindness, genuine compassion and stalwart activism earned her countless admirers around the world, including myself and many others here at the United Nations.
Community Impact

Camp Shriver Counselor, Mary Hammerbacher Manner, Guest Stars on Inclusion Revolution Radio

Camp Shriver Counselor, Mary Hammerbacher Manner and her twin sister, Ann.
Host Novie Craven, spoke with Mary Hammerbacher Manner, counselor at Camp Shriver in the mid 1960s.
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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

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.

Through sports, health, education and community programming, Special Olympics is tackling inactivity, intolerance, isolation and injustice that people with intellectual disabilities throughout the world face.

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Special Olympics Athlete Stephanie Ching Becomes an Advocate

By Special Olympics Staff, July 10, 2017
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She met with members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, to advocate on behalf of Special Olympics.
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