Asia Pacific

A life-changing experience that reunited me with my long-lost mother.

With his ambitious training runs, 18-year-old Abhishek has become a familiar sight around Guwahati, the largest city in northeast India.

This year’s annual NBA Cares Special Olympics Unified basketball game during NBA All-Star weekend was full of fun, talent and excitement. Special Olympics assembled 12 international players to gather in Charlotte, NC to represent their countries, cities and a global movement of inclusion. The players were broken up into two teams of five Special Olympics athletes, with intellectual disabilities. Each team was joined by four international sport celebrities without intellectual disabilities to create a “home” and an “away” team for the Unified basketball game.

The Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 will be Ruaumoko’s first-ever World Games.

With the recent addition of 22 nations, the upcoming Abu Dhabi Special Olympics World Games will be hosting the largest amount of nations in history.

Some 450 participants from 38 different schools took part in Football, Floorball, Basketball and Badminton.

Dr. Timothy Shriver engaged in successful high-level talks with ministers representing Health, Sport, Disability and Education.

Diagnosed with autism at the age of 2 years, he has been a fighter, defying the odds with Special Olympics as the catalyst!

A new group of Special Olympics leaders completed the Leadership Academy workshop in Kolkata, India.

Singapore hosted Module 1 of the Football Coach development programme organised in collaboration with Tottenham Hotspurs FC.