Special Olympics is a unique movement pioneered by a powerful youth community that believes in creating communities of acceptance, dignity, empowerment and joy everyday for people with intellectual disabilities around the world. Video courtesy Special Olympics
12,000 people, including some 900 children, live in a poor, nameless area between a prison and a private school. An effort is underway to provide critical services for them. (Video via Ursula Forrest)
The torch run for Special Olympics inspires people to open their minds, to accept and include people with intellectual disabilities, celebrating differences among all people.
For too long, people with intellectual disabilities have lived in the shadows. Special Olympics is working to change this. Narrated by Special Olympics athlete Loretta Claiborne. Video courtesy Special Olympics