"The mission of the Special Olympics 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 sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community."
In order to improve the Physical fitness of the Special Olympics Athletes of Gujarat, we organize a number of Coaching Camps at Block and district levels where in thousands of intellectually disabled athletes participate and take the benefits of the program. Specially Trained coaches and National coaches certified by the Special Olympics Bharat office conduct these ‘Athletes Coaching Camps’. Physical Fitness assessment of these athletes is done in the beginning of the camp and after the completion of the camp. Improvements in their physical fitness resulted through the coaching camp is mustered and recorded. It is found that there is a tremendous change in their physical fitness after the training.
