Arts and Creativity
Six Months to Sixty: Using Sports and Art to Engage New Youth Leaders
Manal
Omar
Region
Middle East North Africa
Program
Morocco
Project Year
2021
Omar and Manal are Special Olympics Youth Leaders from Morocco who will lead a Youth Innovation Project to increase awareness and participation of Youth Leaders with and without intellectual disabilities.
Over six months, Omar and Manal will direct programs that feature a different activity or sport each month to illustrate the diversity within Special Olympics programming. They believe showcasing the different opportunities will help with recruitment of new Youth Leaders to participate in activities that promote positivity and inclusion. Omar and Manal hope to engage 60 Youth Leaders with and without intellectual disabilities in their monthly programs. They hope an additional 60 participants will join them as Youth Leaders in the Special Olympics community to help empower and inspire the Unified Generation to spread the word about inclusion.