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Our Sanctuary

Our Sanctuary is a student-led fitness challenge that replaced a planned safe space with a wellness initiative, building inclusion, confidence, and friendships through affirmations, movement, and peer support.

Cultivating the Next Unified Generation

Cultivating the Next Unified Generation is a youth-led podcast and digital media project spotlighting stories of inclusion from Special Olympics Youth Ambassadors across the U.S.

Let’s Go Together and Discover Nature

Let’s Go Together and Discover Nature is a Greek youth-led project using hiking, survival skills, and team games to foster inclusion, confidence, and environmental awareness among youth with and without intellectual disabilities.

Special News

Special News is a youth-led media project in Italy that uses digital interviews to spotlight the voices of people with intellectual disabilities and raise awareness about inclusion through storytelling.

Inclusive Dance Challenge

A student-led series of inclusive dance competitions that brought together youth of all abilities across Hungary to connect through choreography, teamwork, and celebration.

SANUFIT

A school-based health initiative promoting nutrition, fitness, and chronic disease prevention among youth with and without intellectual disabilities through screenings, workshops, and fitness challenges.

Unified Sports Development - Ladies Soccer

A sports leadership initiative expanding female-focused Unified programs in netball, volleyball, and football to new communities across Cape Town.

Breaking Barriers

An inclusion-focused advocacy summit and art contest engaging students from across Dar es Salaam in conversations, creativity, and community-building around intellectual disability.

E-Sports

A youth-led project that launched an inclusive E-Sports club at a Utah high school to connect students with and without ID through gaming and teamwork.

Special Olympics Stars Day

Basketball enthusiasts who joined later to co-lead on-site logistics for the final event. Their example of inclusive teamwork “encouraged others to join the movement and strengthened communities where families raise kids with intellectual disabilities (ID).

Eco-Inclusion: Bridging Abilities through Environmental Education

Fabiola and Al-ticious Links plan to lead a Unified environmental awareness campaign to promote recycling and conservation to create not only a cleaner, safer community but a more inclusive one as well!

Unified Sports to Create a Better Future

Jiarui and Yuhang are spreading inclusion using Unified Sports and unique challenges!

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