Advocacy/Community Engagement
Inclusive Scouts in El Salvador
Leidy
Nelson
Region
Latin America
Program
El Salvador
Project Year
2019
Leidy and Nelson are Special Olympics Youth Leaders from El Salvador who will lead a Youth Innovation Project to start an Inclusive scouts program in their area to promote inclusion and teach important life skills.
Over the course of a year, Leidy and Nelson will engage 50 youth with and without intellectual disabilities, train three new Youth Leaders, establish one Unified School and make 13,500 social media impressions. Leidy and Nelson are looking beyond inclusion in schools and sports to bring opportunities for all young people to participate in community organizations such as scouts. Leidy and Nelson are bringing together young people with and without intellectual disabilities to work together as a team, learn new skills and practice inclusion, all of which are helping to build the Unified Generation.