By Tim Shriver
Author’s Note: The following is a guest blog transformed from an email sent to me by Vicki Oren, mother of a Special Olympics athlete in Israel.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a guest post from Dr. John Dow, Chief of Regional Growth for Special Olympics International, and President & Managing Director of the Special Olympics Africa region.
If you Google “Syria” you won’t find a lot of good news or happy words returned to your screen.
“Civil War”“Refugees”“Human tragedy”“Unrest”
Last week China celebrated teachers during their 28th Annual Teacher’s Day and The Party Chief of Shanghai Mr. Yu Zhengsheng spent the day with students with intellectual disabilities — enjoying themselves as they combined play and…
Happy Friday! If you can spare about 2 minutes, listen to this great piece from National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and their weekly StoryCorps segment, which captures the memories of everyday people.
Despite the grinding poverty of Haiti and other countries of extreme poverty, the human spirit is strong. Together with partners, the leaders of Special Olympics Haiti are doing their part to unleash that spirit and educate and celebrate people with intellectual…
“Get better.”
These are simple words from an amazing woman. Who among us could watch as Gabby Giffords labored to speak those words to Diane Sawyer this week and not be moved by her courage and her gentleness too? Would she return to…
The Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011 played host to amazing moments of strength, perseverance and triumph. Despite recovering from natural disasters and dealing with political turmoil, countries like Japan, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya and Syria still…
Special Olympics World Games are long, hard work for everyone involved to pull off such…