Healthy Choices Through Culinary Creativity

What’s the best way to encourage athletes to eat healthy? Offering them healthy food, of course! Special Olympics Mexico is doing just that, and taking the concept one step further by also having athletes prepare the healthy alternatives. Part of the…

Dignity Shouldn’t Stop at the Operating Room Door

By Tim Shriver

It’s summer time and most people are disengaged from the day to day. That’s a good thing. Rest is a vastly underrated key to a healthy quality of life.

HRH Princess Lalla Amina: April 14, 1954 — August 17, 2012

The below is a message from the Regional President & Managing Director of our Special Olympics Middle East-North Africa (MENA) regional office, Mr. Ayman A. Wahab.

Amelia Rivera, Our Symbol of Justice

By Tim Shriver

There is much good news to share from New Jersey over the last two weeks.

End the Name Calling!

By Tim Shriver

Here we go again. Yet another prominent figure on the world stage makes the tragic mistake of trying to ridicule someone else (or himself) by name calling. And in this case, Swiss football player, Michel Morganella not only called his South Korean…

A Call to Be Fearless

By Tim Shriver

The International AIDS Conference was held this year for the first time in the US since 1990. But like every one before it, there was little attention to the needs of people with intellectual disabilities (ID). And this, despite the fact that people…

Christmas Once a Year is Not Enough

Yesterday ‘Music City’ celebrated the single most successful benefit recording series in musical history. Amidst the midday summer heat, a crowd gathered on the second floor terrace of Blackbird Studios in Nashville to pay homage to the 25th anniversary of “A Very…