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* Sports Special Olympics supports over 4 million athletes, coaches, and
volunteers with 32 Olympic-type sports.
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intellectual disabilities.
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families to build inclusive schools and communities for all.
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* Alabama Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Alabama Fact Sheet
* Alaska Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Alaska Fact Sheet
* Arizona Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Arizona Fact Sheet
* Arkansas Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Arkansas Fact Sheet
* Northern California Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Northern California Fact Sheet
* Southern California Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Southern California Fact Sheet.
* Colorado Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Colorado Fact Sheet
* Connecticut Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Connecticut Fact Sheet
* Delaware Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Delaware Fact Sheet
* District of Columbia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics District of Columbia Fact Sheet
* Florida Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Florida Fact Sheet
* Georgia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Georgia Fact Sheet
* Hawaii Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Hawaii Fact Sheet
* Idaho Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Idaho Fact Sheet
* Illinois Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Indiana Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Indiana Fact Sheet
* Iowa Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Iowa Fact Sheet
* Kansas Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Kansas Fact Sheet
* Kentucky Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Kentucky Fact Sheet
* Louisiana Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Maine Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Maine Fact Sheet
* Maryland The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports
training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for
persons eight years of age and older with intellectual disabilities, giving
them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate
courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and
friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the
community.
Special Olympics is founded on the belief that people with intellectual
disabilities can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy,
and benefit from participation in individual and team sports. These must be
adapted only as necessary to meet the needs of those with mental and physical
limitations.
Special Olympics believe that consistent training is indispensable to the
development of an individual’s sports skills. In addition, competition among
those of equal abilities is the most appropriate means of testing these
skills, measuring progress, and providing incentives for personal growth.
Download the Special Olympics Maryland Fact Sheet
* Massachusetts Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Massachusetts Fact Sheet
* Michigan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
More than 20,679 athletes participate in Special Olympics Michigan programs.
Michigan has one of the largest programs in the U.S., but we're always
looking for more athletes! Special Olympics Athletes are young and old. They
have different backgrounds and hometowns. Some are gifted athletes; others
must work very hard just to reach the finish line.
Athelete Development
Although sports is the "vehicle," the ultimate goal of Special Olympics is to
help persons with intellectual disabilities participate and receive respect
as members of their communities. Through Special Olympics, athletes gain
self-confidence and prove their own capabilities. Special Olympics Michigan
is not just training for sports—it's training for life!
Training and Competition
Special Olympics helps children and adults with intellectual disabilities
improve their fitness, learn sports skills, and experience the joy of winning
through regular training and competition. It's a year-round program and
athletes can train for many different sports. It enables families to train
together, to have common goals and to become part of the sports world of
Special Olympics. Through Special Olympics, athletes gain self-esteem and
discipline, which carry over into school, home and the workplace.
Download the Special Olympics Michigan Fact Sheet
* Minnesota Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Founded in 1973, Special Olympics Minnesota provides services and
opportunities to more than 7,800 athletes, supported by 7,324 volunteer
coaches, and we host 92 competitions annually.
Through sports, health, education and community programming, Special Olympics
is tackling inactivity, intolerance, isolation and injustice that people with
intellectual disabilities throughout the world face. In addition to sports,
our programmatic offerings currently include: Athlete Leadership Programs,
Healthy Athletes, Healthy Communities, Young Athletes Program, R-word
Campaign, Youth Activation Committee, Special Olympics Unified Sports, and
Law Enforcement Torch Run.
Download the Special Olympics Minnesota Fact Sheet
* Mississippi Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Founded in 1968 Special Olympics Mississippi provides services and
opportunities to 14,723 athletes, supported by 2,943 volunteer coaches, and
we host 76 competitions annually.
Through sports, health, education and community programming, Special Olympics
is tackling inactivity, intolerance, isolation and injustice that people with
intellectual disabilities throughout the world face. In addition to sports,
our programmatic offerings currently include: Athlete Leadership Programs,
Healthy Athletes, Young Athletes Program, Special Olympics Unified Sports,
and Law Enforcement Torch Run.
Download the Special Olympics Mississippi Fact Sheet
* Missouri Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Missouri Fact Sheet
* Montana Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Montana Fact Sheet
* Nebraska Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Nebraska Fact Sheet
* Nevada Our sports trainings are geared toward the ability level of our
athletes and our competitions are designed so that athletes compete against
athletes of the same approximate ability level.
We offer the several programs for athletes that meet a range of ability
levels and needs.
Our community-based training and competition is one of our more well-known
programs as it offers 12 individual and team sports for athletes of all ages
with a range of disabilities. Trainings and competitions take place in the
evenings and weekends.
Our Motor Activities Training Program (MATP) is specifically for athletes
with severe disabilities, with an emphasis on skill building and
participation rather than competition.
Our Unified Sports® Program is characterized by an equal numbers of athletes
with and without developmental disabilities of similar age and ability
competing on teams together.
Our Schools Partnership Program is a sports training and competition program
integrated into the regular school day for special education students. This
program offers three sports during the school year: soccer, basketball and
track & field.
At-a-Glance:
We offer 12 sanctioned community sports and five school-based sports in the
Clark County School district. Annually, we have more than 22 school-based,
local and state competition opportunities and more than 25 special events to
raise both awareness and funding for our growing program.
Our Impact:
Our athletes often experience improved physical fitness, greater
self-confidence and a more positive self-image. Our athletes and volunteers
discover new abilities and talents and grow intellectually and socially. Our
program increases community engagement and social participation among
disabled children and adults and non-disabled community alike.
Download the Special Olympics Nevada Fact Sheet
* New Hampshire Special Olympics is a global organization that serves close to
4 million athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of
thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Even so, the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics New Hampshire Fact Sheet
* New Jersey Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics New Jersey currently serves more than 24,000 athletes
throughout the state. All programs are free to registered athletes including
insurance, facilities, equipment, uniforms, housing & meals for events,
awards, sports, education and more. In addition to programs offered on the
local, county, sectional and state levels, Special Olympics New Jersey offers
free programs and activities at the Special Olympics New Jersey Sports
Complex in Lawrenceville, including Camp Shriver, fitness training, Athlete
University, coach and volunteer training sessions, family programs and so
much more.
Through sports training and competition, people with intellectual
disabilities are benefited physically, mentally, socially and spiritually;
families are strengthened, and the community at large, both through
participation and observation, is united in understanding individuals with
intellectual disabilities in an environment of equality, respect and
acceptance.
Download the Special Olympics New Jersey Fact Sheet.
* New Mexico Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Established in 1970, Special Olympics New Mexico provides year-round sports
training and athletic competition in 12 Olympic-type sports for children and
adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities
to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and
participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families,
other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Year by year, Special Olympics New Mexico athletes are given opportunities to
feel good about who they are and celebrate their accomplishments through
successful experiences in sports. Be apart of the fun by being a fan of
Special Olympics New Mexico.
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* New York Special Olympics New York athletes are truly the greatest athletes
in the world. Sure, they all want to win, but our athletes know something
that many other athletes do not. Winning is not everything—competing and
giving the best effort—this is what makes an athlete great.
Our mission is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-style sports for all children and adults with
intellectual disabilities giving them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a
sharing of skills and friendship with their families, fellow athletes and the
community.
Special Olympics New York currently serves more than 31,000 throughout the
state. They train for weeks and months to prepare for local, regional and
statewide competition. They are supported by more than 5,000 coaches and
4,300 volunteers. Athletes are never charged to participate in our programs.
Download the Special Olympics New York Fact Sheet.
* North Carolina Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics North Carolina Fact Sheet
* North Dakota Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics North Dakota Fact Sheet.
* Ohio The mission of Special Olympics Ohio is to provide year-round sports
training and competition opportunities for children and adults with
intellectual disabilities. Special Olympics contributes to the physical,
social, and psychological development of the athletes. Through successful
experiences in sports, they gain confidence and build a positive self-image
which carries over into the classroom, home, job and community.
* Oklahoma Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Oklahoma Fact Sheet.
* Oregon Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Oregon Fact Sheet.
* Pennsylvania Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Pennsylvania Fact Sheet.
* Rhode Island Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Rhode Island Fact Sheet.
* South Carolina Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics South Carolina Fact Sheet.
* South Dakota Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics South Dakota Fact Sheet
* Tennessee Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Tennessee Fact Sheet.
* Texas The mission of Special Olympics Texas is to provide year-round sports
training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for
children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing
opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience
joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their
families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Texas Fact Sheet.
* Utah Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Vermont Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Vermont Fact Sheet
* Virginia Little by little, the world changes. For Special Olympics Virginia,
sport is the way we work that change, but the real power lies within the
Special Olympics experience and all the people it touches.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics Virginia provides year-round sports training and athletic
competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with
intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing
opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience
joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Virginia Fact Sheet
* Washington Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Washington Fact Sheet
* West Virginia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics West Virginia Fact Sheet
* Wisconsin The mission of Special Olympics Wisconsin is to provide year-round
sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports
for children and adults with cognitive disabilities, giving them continuing
opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience
joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their
families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Wisconsin Fact Sheet
* Wyoming Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Wyoming Fact Sheet
AFRICA
* Bénin Special Olympics Benin provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Benin Fact Sheet
* Botswana Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Botswana Fact Sheet
* Burkina Faso Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Burkina Faso Fact Sheet
* Burundi Special Olympics Burundi provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Burundi Fact Sheet.
* Cape Verde Special Olympics Cape Verde provides empowerment, acceptance and
joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Cape Verde Fact Sheet
* Chad Special Olympics Chad provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for
every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Chad Fact Sheet.
* Côte d'Ivoire Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It's at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Côte d'Ivoire Fact Sheet
* Democratic Republic of Congo Special Olympics Democratic Republic of Congo
provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics
athlete, there are many people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t
reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
* Equatorial Guinea Special Olympics Equatorial Guinea provides empowerment,
acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many
people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Equatorial Guinea Fact Sheet
* Eswatini Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Eswatini Fact Sheet
* Ethiopia Special Olympics Ethiopia provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Ethiopia Fact Sheet
* The Gambia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Download the Special Olympics The Gambia Fact Sheet
* Ghana Special Olympics is a global organization that serves more than 4
million athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of
thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of
Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Ghana Fact Sheet.
* Guinea Special Olympics Guinea provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Guinea Fact Sheet
* Guinea Bissau Special Olympics Guinea Bissau provides empowerment, acceptance
and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Guinea Bissau Fact Sheet
* Kenya Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Kenya Fact Sheet
* Lesotho Special Olympics Lesotho provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Lesotho Fact Sheet.
* Liberia Special Olympics Liberia provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Liberia Fact Sheet
* Madagascar Special Olympics Madagascar provides empowerment, acceptance and
joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Madagascar Fact Sheet
* Malawi Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Malawi Fact Sheet
* Mali Special Olympics is a global organization that serves more than 4
million athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of
thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of
Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Mali Fact Sheet
* Mauritius Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Mauritius Fact Sheet
* Mozambique Special Olympics Mozambique provides empowerment, acceptance and
joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet. It’s at the local
level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where
the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes
place. Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic
competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with
intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing
opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience
joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship. Fact Sheet
coming soon.
* Namibia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Namibia Fact Sheet
* Niger Special Olympics Niger provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Niger Fact Sheet.
* Nigeria Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Nigeria Fact Sheet
* Congo Special Olympics Congo provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Congo Fact Sheet
* Rwanda Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches. Since 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with Special Olympics has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Rwanda Fact Sheet
* Sénégal Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Senegal Fact Sheet
* Seychelles Special Olympics is a global organization with that serves with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches. Since 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with Special Olympics has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Seychelles Fact Sheet
* South Africa Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics South Africa Fact Sheet
* South Sudan Special Olympics South Sudan provides empowerment, acceptance and
joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics South Sudan Fact Sheet
* Tanzania Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Tanzania Fact Sheet
* Togo Special Olympics is a global organization that serves more than 4
million athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of
thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of
Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Togo Fact Sheet
* Uganda Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Uganda Fact Sheet
* Zambia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Zambia Fact Sheet
* Zimbabwe Special Olympics is a global organization that serves more than 4
million athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of
thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of
Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
ASIA PACIFIC
* Afghanistan
* American Samoa Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics American Somoa Fact Sheet
* Australia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Bangladesh Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Bangladesh Fact Sheet
* Bharat (India) Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Bhutan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Bhutan is recognized as a Founding Committee. A Founding
Committee is a group of people who join together and apply to Special
Olympics International for recognition and the right to use the name "Special
Olympics" with the ultimate goal of being accredited as a Program.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Bhutan Fact Sheet
* Brunei Darussalam Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Brunei Darussalam Fact Sheet
* Cambodia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Cambodia Fact Sheet
* Fiji Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Fiji is recognized as a Founding Committee. A Founding
Committee is a group of people who join together and apply to Special
Olympics International for recognition and the right to use the name "Special
Olympics" with the ultimate goal of being accredited as a Program.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Fiji Fact Sheet
* Guam Special Olympics Guam (SOGU) organization is about Respect, Dignity and
Compassion. We provide a healthy, happy, safe and inclusive environment for
our athletes with the help of our Island Community. Our Revolution of
Inclusion is a mindset, a movement and goal for everyone to open their minds,
hearts and commit to including people with intellectual disabilities,
recognizing their abilities and NOT their disabilities. SOGU works to create
an environment by which athletes are nurtured through sports and life skills
that will empower them with confidence and build their self-esteem to be
independent and productive citizens of our island community. Our athletes are
not just athletes but ambassadors of uprising peaceful protestors whose lives
are challenged by their disabilities. Our Athletes strive for equality,
dignity and recognition into our island community.
The very oath of champions that each and every one of us recites before each
event, “Let me win, But if I can not win, Let me be brave in the attempt.” Is
our way of life!
Special Olympics Guam (SOGU) is a registered non-profit organization on Guam
for over forty years. SOGU is accredited and recognized under the Special
Olympics Asia Pacific (SOAP) region overseen by Special Olympics
International (SOI), the governing body for this Global Movement. SOGU is an
organization solely run by dedicated yearlong volunteers.
Download the Special Olympics Guam Fact Sheet.
* Indonesia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Indonesia Fact Sheet
* Kiribati Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Kiribati Fact Sheet
* Laos Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Laos is recognized as a Founding Committee. A Founding
Committee is a group of people who join together and apply to Special
Olympics International for recognition and the right to use the name "Special
Olympics" with the ultimate goal of being accredited as a Program.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation take
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Laos Fact Sheet
* Malaysia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Malaysia Fact Sheet
* Maldives Special Olympics Maldives provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Maldives Fact Sheet
* Marshall Islands Special Olympics Marshall Islands provides empowerment,
acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many
people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Marshall Islands Fact Sheet
* Micronesia Special Olympics Micronesia provides empowerment, acceptance and
joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Micronesia Fact Sheet
* Myanmar Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Myanmar Fact Sheet
* Nauru Special Olympics Nauru provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Nauru Fact Sheet
* Nepa Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Nepa Fact Sheet
* New Zealand Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics New Zealand Fact Sheet
* Nippon (Japan) Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Nippon (Japan) Fact Sheet
* Pakistan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering..
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Pakistan Fact Sheet
* Palau Special Olympics Palau provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Palau Fact Sheet
* Papua New Guinea Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Papua New Guinea is recognized as a Founding Committee. A
Founding Committee is a group of people who join together and apply to
Special Olympics International for recognition and the right to use the name
"Special Olympics" with the ultimate goal of being accredited as a Program.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Papau New Guinea Fact Sheet
* Pilipinas Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Pilipinas Fact Sheet
* Samoa Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Samoa Fact Sheet.
* Serendib (Sri Lanka) Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Serendib (Sri Lanka) is recognized as a Founding Committee.
A Founding Committee is a group of people who join together and apply to
Special Olympics International for recognition and the right to use the name
"Special Olympics" with the ultimate goal of being accredited as a Program.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Specail Olympics Serendib (Sri Lanka) Fact Sheet.
* Singapore Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Singapore Fact Sheet.
* Solomon Islands Special Olympics Solomon Islands provides empowerment,
acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many
people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Solomon Islands Fact Sheet
* Thailand Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Thailand Fact Sheet.
* Timor Leste Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Timor Leste Fact Sheet.
* Tonga Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Tonga is recognized as a Founding Committee. A Founding
Committee is a group of people who join together and apply to Special
Olympics International for recognition and the right to use the name "Special
Olympics" with the ultimate goal of being accredited as a Program.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Tonga Fact Sheet.
* Vanuatu Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Vunuatu Fact Sheet.
* Vietnam Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Vietnam is recognized as a Founding Committee. A Founding
Committee is a group of people who join together and apply to Special
Olympics International for recognition and the right to use the name "Special
Olympics" with the ultimate goal of being accredited as a Program.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Vietnam Fact Sheet.
EAST ASIA
* China Special Olympics is a global organization that serves more than 4
million athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of
thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of
Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics China Fact Sheet
* Chinese Taipei Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Chinese Taipei Fact Sheet.
* Hong Kong Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Hong Kong Fact Sheet.
* Korea Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Korea Fact Sheet.
* Macau Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Macau Fact Sheet.
* Mongolia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Mongolia Fact Sheet.
EUROPE/EURASIA
* Albania Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Albania Fact Sheet.
* Andorra Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It's at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Andorra Fact Sheet.
* Armenia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Armenia Fact Sheet.
* Austria Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Austria Fact Sheet.
* Azerbaijan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Azerbaijan Fact Sheet.
* Belarus Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Belarus Fact Sheet.
* Belgium Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Belgium Fact Sheet.
* Bosnia and Herzegovina Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Bosnia & Herzegovina Fact Sheet.
* Bulgaria Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Bulgaria Fact Sheet.
* Croatia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Croatia Fact Sheet.
* Cyprus Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Cyprus Fact Sheet.
* Czech Republic Special Olympics is a global organization that serves with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Czech Republic Fact Sheet.
* Denmark Special Olympics Denmark (SODK) was established in 1985 as part of
Dansk Handicap Idræts-Forbund (Danish Sports Organisation for Disabled).
Since 2001 we have been focused on developing sport for people with learning
disabilities using the Special Olympics concepts. We primarily use the
Special Olympics concepts to develop local, regional and national tournaments
and games and give people with learning disabilities the opportunity to
participate in sports events abroad.
We offer opportunities to children and adults with a learning disability and
are working to expand opportunities to reach further in the years to come.
Children and adults with learning disabilities who participate in Special
Olympics develop improved physical fitness and motor skills, greater
self-confidence and a more positive self-image. They grow mentally, socially
and spiritually and, through their activities, exhibit boundless courage and
enthusiasm, enjoying the rewards of friendship and ultimately discovering new
abilities and talents.
Download the Special Olympics Denmark Fact Sheet.
* Estonia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Estonia Fact Sheet.
* Faroe Islands Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Faroe Island Fact Sheet.
* Finland Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Finland Fact Sheet.
* France Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics France Fact Sheet.
* Georgia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Georgia Fact Sheet.
* Germany The mission of Special Olympics Germany is "to provide year-round
sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports
for children and adults with an intellectual disability, giving them
continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage,
experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendships
with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community."
* Gibraltar Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Gibraltar Fact Sheet.
* Great Britain Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place. Special Olympics provides year-round sports
training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for
children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give
them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate
courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and
friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Great Britain Fact Sheet.
* Hellas (Greece) Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Hellas (Greece) Fact Sheet.
* Hungary Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Hungary Fact Sheet.
* Iceland Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Iceland Fact Sheet.
* Ireland Special Olympics Ireland is a sports organization for people with an
intellectual disability, but it provides athletes with far more than the
physical benefits of sport. Special Olympics changes lives. Through sport,
athletes develop both physically and emotionally, they make new friends,
realize their dreams, and know they can fit in. Special Olympics Ireland
enables our athletes to achieve and win not only in sport but in life too.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Ireland Fact Sheet.
* Isle of Man Founded in 1985 Special Olympics Isle of Man is proud to be a
part of the Special Olympics family, helping men, women and children with
intellectual disabilities through sport. Some people think that Special
Olympics involves just a few days of games once or twice a year. In reality,
the training never stops and is as important as the competition itself.
Special Olympics Isle of Man offers a lifetime of learning through sport, and
benefits individuals on the island of all ages and ability level, from those
with low motor abilities to highly skilled athletes.
* Israel Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Israel Fact Sheet.
* Italy Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Italy Fact Sheet.
* Kazakhstan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Kosovo Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place. Special Olympics provides year-round sports
training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for
children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give
them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate
courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and
friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Kosovo Fact Sheet.
* Kyrgyz Republic Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Kyrgyz Republic Fact Sheet.
* Latvia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Latvia Fact Sheet.
* Liechtenstein Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Liechtenstein Fact Sheet.
* Lithuania Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Lithuania Fact Sheet.
* Luxembourg Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Luxembourg Fact Sheet.
* North Macedonia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics North Macedonia Fact Sheet.
* Malta Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Malta Fact Sheet.
* Moldova Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Monaco Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Monaco Fact Sheet.
* Montenegro Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Montenegro Fact Sheet.
* Netherlands Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Netherlands Fact Sheet.
* Norway Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Norway Fact Sheet.
* Poland Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Poland Fact Sheet.
* Portugal Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Portugal Fact Sheet.
* Romania Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Romania Fact Sheet.
* Russia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Russia Fact Sheet.
* San Marino Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympic San Marino Fact Sheet.
* Serbia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Serbia Fact Sheet.
* Slovakia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Slovakia Fact Sheet.
* Slovenia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Slovenia Fact Sheet.
* Spain Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Spain Fact Sheet.
* Sweden Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Sweden Fact Sheet.
* Switzerland Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Switzerland Fact Sheet.
* Tajikistan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Tajikistan Fact Sheet.
* Tȕrkiye Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Tȕrkiye Fact Sheet.
* Turkmenistan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Turkmenistan Fact Sheet.
* Ukraine Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Ukraine Fact Sheet.
* Uzbekistan Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Uzbekistan Fact Sheet.
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* Argentina Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Argentina Fact Sheet.
* Bolivia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Bolivia Fact Sheet.
* Brazil Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Brazil Fact Sheet.
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* Chile Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Chile Fact Sheet.
* Colombia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Colombia Fact Sheet.
* Costa Rica Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Costa Rica Fact Sheet.
* Cuba Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Cuba Fact Sheet.
* Dominican Republic Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Dominican Republic Fact Sheet.
* Ecuador Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Ecuador Fact Sheet.
* El Salvador Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics El Salvador Fact Sheet.
* Guatemala Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Guatemala Fact Sheet.
* Honduras Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Honduras Fact Sheet.
* Mexico Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Mexico Fact Sheet.
* Nicaragua Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Special Olympics Nicaragua Fact Sheet coming soon.
* Panamá Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Panama Fact Sheet.
* Paraguay Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Paraguay Fact Sheet.
* Peru Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Peru Fact Sheet.
* Puerto Rico Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Puerto Rico Fact Sheet.
* Uruguay Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Uruguay Fact Sheet.
* Venezuela Special Olympics Venezuela is an active program that offers many
activities, has outstanding athletes and continues to change lives through
inclusion, acceptance and respect.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Venezuela Fact Sheet.
MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
* Algeria Special Olympics Algeria provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Algeria Fact Sheet
* Bahrain Special Olympics Bahrain provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Bahrain Fact Sheet
* Comoros Special Olympics Kuwait provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Special Olympics Comoros Fact Sheet Coming Soon
* Djibouti Special Olympics Djibouti provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Special Olympics Djibouti Fact Sheet Coming Soon
* Egypt Special Olympics Egypt provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Egypt Fact Sheet
* Iran Special Olympics Iran provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for
every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Iran Fact Sheet.
* Iraq Special Olympics Iraq provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for
every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Iraq Fact Sheet
* Jordan Special Olympics Jordan provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Jordan Fact Sheet
* Kuwait Special Olympics Kuwait provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Kuwait Fact Sheet
* Lebanon Special Olympics Lebanon provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Lebanon Fact Sheet
* Libya Special Olympics Libya provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Libya Fact Sheet
* Mauritania Special Olympics Mauritania provides empowerment, acceptance and
joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Mauritania Fact Sheet
* Morocco Special Olympics Morocco provides empowerment, acceptance and joy.
But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Morocco Fact Sheet
* Oman Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Special Olympics Oman was established as a Special Olympics Founding
Committee in 2016.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Oman Fact Sheet
* Palestine Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Palestine Fact Sheet
* Qatar Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Qatar Fact Sheet
* Saudi Arabia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Saudi Arabia Fact Sheet
* Sudan Special Olympics Sudan provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Sudan Fact Sheet
* Syria Special Olympics Syria provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Syria Fact Sheet.
* Tunisia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Tunisia Fact Sheet
* United Arab Emirates Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates will be the host of the 2019 Special
Olympics World Summer Games. The Games will be held in March of 2019. Abu
Dhabi is the first place in the Middle East-North Africa Region to be host of
a Special Olympics World Games. Learn more
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics UAE Fact Sheet
* Yemen Special Olympics Kuwait provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But
for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual
disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Special Olympics Yemen Fact Sheet Coming Soon
NORTH AMERICA
* Antigua and Barbuda Special Olympics Antigua and Barbuda provides
empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete,
there are many people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
* Aruba Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Aruba Fact Sheet
* Bahamas Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship
Download the Special Olympics Bahamas Fact Sheet
* Barbados Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Founded in 1968, Special Olympics Barbados provides services and
opportunities to more than 800 athletes, supported by eighty(80) volunteer
coaches, and we host eight(8) competitions annually.
Through sports, health, education and community programming, Special Olympics
is tackling inactivity, intolerance, isolation and injustice that people with
intellectual disabilities throughout the world face. In addition to sports,
our programmatic offerings currently include: Healthy Athletes,Special
Olympics Unified Sports,Law Enforcement Torch Run and Outreach and Skills
Training.
Download the Special Olympics Barbados Fact Sheet
* Belize Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Belize Fact Sheet
* Bermuda Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
* Bonaire Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Bonaire Fact Sheet
* Canada Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Canada Fact Sheet
* Cayman Islands Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Cayman Islands Fact Sheet
* Curacao Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Curacao Fact Sheet
* Dominica Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Dominica Fact Sheet
* Guadeloupe Special Olympics Guadeloupe provides empowerment, acceptance and
joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with
intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Guadeloupe Fact Sheet
* Guyana Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Through sports, health, education and community programming, Special Olympics
is tackling inactivity, intolerance, isolation and injustice that people with
intellectual disabilities throughout the world face.
Download the Special Olympics Guyana Fact Sheet
* Haiti Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Haiti Fact Sheet
* Jamaica Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Jamaica Fact Sheet
* Saint Kitts and Nevis Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level--right here--where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Saint Kitts and Nevis Fact Sheet
* Saint Lucia Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Saint Lucia Fact Sheet
* Saint Maarten Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes
with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Saint Marteen Fact Sheet
* Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Special Olympics is a global organization
that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of
thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of
Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual
disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the
unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Fact Sheet
* Suriname Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with
intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers
and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968,
the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are
involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach
more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Suriname Fact Sheet
* Trinidad and Tobago Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics Trinidad and Tobago Fact Sheet
* U.S. Virgin Islands Special Olympics is a global organization that serves
athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of
volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics
in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who
are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to
reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.
It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the
athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle
of transformation takes place.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition
in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop
physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a
sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Download the Special Olympics US Virgin Islands Fact Sheet
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