ENABLING PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITIES

Global Vision believes that sports and sportsmanship are quintessential assets based on which all people can develop commitment, perseverance, integrity, communication and teamwork abilities, as well as a more engaging life.

Consequently, Global Vision has been involved in supporting young people with mental disabilities who want to prove themselves and to all of us that they can heighten their abilities, enjoy sports and prove to our society that it needs them.

We partnered with Motivation Romania, because we too think that sports are a great means to improve the body, heart, and spirit of people with mental disabilities. At the same time, sports competitions offer the symbolic rewards that all people need in order to build social recognition, to find motivation to become better and to gain confidence in their personal achievements.

An immediate result of the partnership has been Global Vision’s financial support for Nicoleta, Mihaela, Florin and Edi who are training for the Special Olympics World Summer Games taking place in Athens, 2011, where they will participate in athletics and bocce competitions.

The Special Olympics is a celebration of the human spirit, where people with disabilities evidence the world their unlimited potential and the will to fulfill them.

The Special Olympics World Summer Games are organized in Athens, between June 25 and July 4, 2011. The event will be attended by international celebrities, dignitaries, world leaders, as well as famous names from business, sports, education and health. The Special Olympics World Summer Games welcomes more than 7,500 participants from 172 countries competing in 22 sports.

Special Olympics is a non-profit organization that was officially founded in 1968, giving form to the vision of its founder, Eunice Kennedy-Shriver (1921-2009), the sister of the USA President John F. Kennedy.

Only two years after the summer of 1968, the first International Special Olympics Summer Games took place in Illinois, USA, and was joined by 1,000 participating athletes with intellectual disabilities from 26 states of the U.S. and Canada.

Today, the Special Olympics have evolved to a Global Movement. Now it gives the opportunity to athletes with intellectual disabilities to reinforce their self-esteem, to discover their special abilities, and thus to become active and useful members of their societies.