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Connecting Leaders of Tomorrow
Maria Daniela
Andres Jose
Region
Latin America
Program
Venezuela
Project Year
2020
Maria Daniela and Andres Jose are Special Olympics Youth Leaders from Venezuela who are leading a Youth Innovation Project aimed at increasing Youth Leader engagement.
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Through this project, Maria Daniela and Andres Jose will host various leadership workshops, public speaking presentations, art activities, and sports games in a socially distanced manner. Maria Daniela and Andres Jose will engage new Youth Leaders with the hope that their project can turn into an established program full of passionate youth.

Inspired by the energy in their community to get to know individuals with intellectual disabilities, Maria Daniela and Andres Jose decided to organize various activities to facilitate engagement. Maria Daniela and Andres Jose were empowered by the Unified Generation and hope to do the same for others by sharing their confidence that this is the generation that will work together to promote inclusion in an efficient and passionate manner.