“If we want others to treat our special children like everyone else, we as their family need to treat them like others too and shed ‘over protection’”

Ms Chitra Shah, Vice President SO Bharat & Founder Satya Special School, Puducherry

Shivam Verma and Mohammad Kaif (Unified pair of youth with and without Intellectual Disability) from Special Olympics Bharat, perform a rap telling their peers and the society to encourage and promote Inclusion , a great path for us to move together towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals




Special Olympics Bharat is an NGO that organizes Olympic-type sports for persons with intellectual disabilities. These sports and competitions are organized at various levels- local, district, state, national and international and based on abilities and performance athletes cross each level to participate at higher consecutive levels.

Special Olympics Bharat is a part of Special Olympics which is an international organization that has grown from a few hundred athletes to more than 4.2 million athletes in 170 countries. With the support of more than one million coaches and volunteers, Special Olympics is able to deliver 32 Olympic-type sports and more than 70,000 competitions throughout the year.

While sports remains the mainstay of the Special Olympics Program the capacity of the athletes are constantly developed through regular trainings and additional initiatives that help strengthen the athletes- mentally , physically emotionally.

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