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Bangladesh

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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.

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Burundi

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Special Olympics Burundi provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.

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.
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Special Olympics Netherlands launches Exercise App

Screen shots of the Scoor je PR! app.
Not knowing the disruption and destruction that the Coronavirus was to cause, in late 2019, the Special Olympics Netherlands team began developing an app to support athletes to stay fit and healthy at home.
Community Impact

Special Olympics Senegal Celebrates World Youth Skills Day and International Youth Day

Thirteen athletes in matching white t-shirts stand together for a group photo.
Special Olympics Senegal brought together athletes, families, partners, and supporters to mark World Youth Skills Day and International Youth Day.
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Niger

Athletes playing basketball on a court.
Special Olympics Niger provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.

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.
Sport Partnerships

Women's Tennis Association

Special Olympics is pleased to partner with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) to build international awareness of and participation in Special Olympics Unified Sports® through the WTA Foundation’s global community outreach program COME PLAY!. This program encourages people of all ages and abilities to play tennis in order to lead healthy and productive lives on and off the court. The partnership does this in a variety of ways with activations at WTA tournament pairing Special Olympics athletes with professional players and WTA players joining official Special Olympics tennis events at national and international events. In addition, Special Olympics is grateful for the support of 3x Grand Slam champion Gaby Dabrowski as an official Global Ambassador since 2020.
Community Impact

Closing the Health Gap with a Fitness App

A photo of a hand holding a phone with the Sprout app activating.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities gives people with intellectual disabilities (ID) the inalienable right to health care of the highest standards. In a similar vein, a person with ID is not inherently unhealthy.
Community Impact

How Does a Photographer Sum up the most Incredible Experience of their Career?

Olympiastadion with 50,000 people in it
Photographer Dillon Vibes shares his experience attending the Special Olympics World Games 2023 through photographs he captured while in Berlin. Below is a collection of photos and personal insight to his most memorable times at the Games.
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Entrevista con Pablo Composto, Mensajero Global

Pablo Composto
"Luchador por los derechos de las personas con discapacidad". En el Día Mundial de Concienciación sobre el Autismo, resaltamos las historias y los esfuerzos de nuestros atletas por promover y defender la plena realización de los derechos y libertades de las personas con discapacidad intelectual y del desarrollo (DID), incluyendo TEA.
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Coaches teach the skills and spirit that define a true athlete. Coaches are role models and character-builders. Learn more about becoming a Special Olympics Coach.
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