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Unified Schools
Uniting to Grow Our Unified Generation
yasmeen
Farah
Region
Middle East North Africa
Program
Egypt
Project Year
2021
Yasmeen and Farah are Special Olympics Youth Leaders from Egypt who attended the Lead to Include Middle East North Africa Regional Youth Summit held in conjunction with the 2020 Special Olympics Pan-African Games in Cairo, Egypt.
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Yasmeen and Farah will lead a Youth Innovation Project to promote inclusion by launching education and sporting events and workshops at schools and universities across Egypt. Through their project, they hope to expand Special Olympics programming at current Unified Schools, recruit new Youth Leaders, and establish new Unified Schools in the MENA Region. Throughout their project, Yasmeen and Farah hope to engage and educate students with and without intellectual disabilities, teachers, and community members about inclusion.By implementing monthly programs, they hope to initiate conversations and activities that support their mission of fostering a culture of inclusivity. By demonstrating the positive effects Unified Sports has on creating a more inclusive society, Yasmeen and Farah's interactive project will increase the number of Unified Schools in Egypt.

Over six months, Yasmeen and Farah will prepare a new generation of Special Olympics Youth Leaders and teachers as ambassadors for Special Olympics Egypt. They will lead monthly awareness meetings and workshops in their schools and communities and engage over 150 students with and without intellectual disabilities. During these meetings, Yasmeen and Farah will provide interactive programming to demonstrate the benefits of Unified Sports and Unified Schools. . By expanding programming in existing Unified Schools and engaging new Youth Leaders and teachers, Yasmeen and Farah will work to create four new Unified Schools and Unified Champion Schools and increase participation in Unified Sports across Egypt. Yasmeen and Farah will empower the Unified Generation to join them as Egyptian leaders for inclusion.