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Special Olympics International and Education Cannot Wait Join Forces to Advance Inclusion through Sports and Physical Education in Emergency and Protracted Crisis Settings

Groundbreaking partnership aims to address barriers faced by children with intellectual disabilities in some of the most challenging crises worldwide.
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Faces of Inclusion: YangLingZi School Championing Inclusion

In the heart of its region, YangLingZi School serves as a model of Unified Champion Schools, a place where students of all abilities come together to learn, play, and grow side by side.
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Excellence in Action: Expanding Unified Champion Schools Across Europe Eurasia

The Excellence in Action: Expanding Unified Champion Schools Across Europe Eurasia event brought together leaders, mentors, educators, and youth with and without intellectual disabilities from across Europe and Eurasia.
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Excellence in Action: Expanding Unified Champion Schools Across Middle East/North Africa

The Special Olympics MENA Unified Champion Schools (UCS) Hub event, titled Excellence in Action: Expanding UCS across the MENA region, was held from October 23 to October 26, 2024.
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Special Olympics CEO Mary Davis Joins US Government Delegation for First-Ever G7 Ministers' Meeting on Inclusion and Disability

Mary Davis commended attending governments for pledging to take actionable steps to remove barriers for persons with disabilities.
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Excellence in Action: Expanding Unified Champion Schools Across Africa

Special Olympics Global Center for Inclusion in Education and Special Olympics Rwanda hosted the Excellence in Action: Expanding Unified Champion Schools workshop.
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Call to Action: Empowering Through Sports

The International Sports for Development Forum calls on society to recognize the transformative power of sports to promote social inclusion.
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A Journey of Inclusion and Connection

This past spring, Special Olympics Youth Leaders Britany and Denisher embarked on a journey that would change their lives forever.
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The True Beauty of Cape Town

Eltheo and Charl aimed to create a soccer club for 14–16-year-old girls, hoping to inspire school-going youth by showing them there is a future and that they can succeed if they set their minds to something.
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A New Era of Special Education Begins with Inclusive AI

The following excerpt is from Tim Shriver’s op-ed, “A New Era of Special Education Begins with Inclusive AI,” published by Time Ideas:
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