Sports & Jeans Day!
Wear your favorite sports team apparel with your jeans this Thursday,April 19th for a $1 Donation, brought to you by your Student Advisory Board.
Proceeds
will benefit the Special Olympics, an international program of year-round
sports training and athletic competition for persons with intellectual
disability.
Special Olympics began in 1968 when
Eunice Kennedy Shriver organized the First International Summer Games at
Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The concept was born in the early
1960s when Shriver started a day camp for people with intellectual disability.
She saw that individuals with intellectual disability were far more capable in
sports and physical activities than experts thought.
In December 1968, Special Olympics was
established as a nonprofit charitable organization under the laws of the
District of Columbia, USA. The National Association for Retarded Citizens, the
Council for Exceptional Children and the American Association on Mental
Deficiency pledged their support for this first systemic effort to provide
sports training and athletic competition for individuals with intellectual
disability based on the Olympic tradition and spirit. Since 1968, millions of
children and adults with intellectual disability have participated in Special
Olympics around the world.
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