Who we are
Special Olympics Bharat-Gujarat is a part of Special Olympics Bharat and Special Olympics Inc ‘A Global Movement” which is committed to empowering people with intellectual disabilities on and off the playing field. Special Olympics provides opportunities for its athletes to demonstrate their courage, experience, joy and share their skills , and friendship with the world.
Special Olympics Bharat-Gujarat Chapter was started in 2000 after tremendous interest and participation exhibited by these special enthusiastic. During the span of 10 years, we could identify and register 84,000 individuals with intellectually disabilities from various villages of 26 districts in Gujarat and could help them in fighting against isolation and neglect caused them either by birth or through malnutrition or poverty. We could also give them supporting hands to come out from their isolated living conditions, helped them in improving their health status and in getting medical aids and assistive devises.
According to the mission of Special Olympics, we organize various sports activities like Athletes Coaching Camps, District and State level Competitions, Summer Camps to assist thousands of them in improving their health status and thus strengthening their Physical fitness through providing quality training and coaching though our Coaches who have undergone specialized training. |