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Athletes

Preparation & Passion: Jana Kennedy’s Recipe for Meaningful Employment

By RJ Nealon, November 01, 2022
A woman smiles for the camera. She's standing outside in front of mountains.
Jana Kennedy’s passion for working in the prep kitchen stems from her relationship with her grandma.
Athletes

Athlete Finds Health, Motivation in Virtual Fitness

By RJ Nealon, March 22, 2022
Amber standing for a picture with her red tail hawk
Amber Gertsch has a passion for everything she does—taking care of her red-tail hawk, sword-fighting, being an emergency medical technician—but some things stand out more than others.
Community Impact

A Lifesaving Skill

A group of three people pose for a photo.
Debbie Ogden considers swimming a lifesaving skill. That is exactly why she raised each one of her children in the pool.
Community Impact

Opening Doors: Advancing Inclusive Pediatric Care in Colombia

A two-photo collage. The photo on the left shows a mother holding her young daughter in her lap, sitting on a chair in front of two banners. The photo on the right shows a young child sitting down next to a Special Olympics Young Athletes banner.
Recognized annually on 20 November, World Children’s Day brings awareness to children’s rights and welfare worldwide.

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You are not Just Athletes, You are Champions!

A collage of photos of five men and two women.
As the athletes of Special Olympics prepare for the World Winter Games Turin 2025, high profile figures from across Europe send their best wishes for a successful, joyful and fearless World Winter Games!
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Opening Eyes and Essilor Vision Foundation Focus on Inclusion Health

A male athlete has his eyes examined by a female healthcare worker. His head is in a harness allowing her to look through the microscope at his eyes.
Essilor Vision Foundation recently interviewed David Evangelista, Regional President and Managing Director of Special Olympics Europe Eurasia.
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Unified Sports in Uganda with GIZ Sport for Development

Female basketball players playing a game.
Unified Sports® in Uganda's schools, clubs and federations gets boost from the GIZ Global Project “Inclusion of People with Disabilities”.
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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.

Download the Special Olympics Myanmar Fact Sheet (Burmese / English)
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