By Jerry Muhamudu;
Special Olympic Rwanda has trained over 100 parents in Kicukiro on how to maintain proper family health and nutrition when it comes to feeding children with intellectual disabilities in general.
The training called Family Health Forum was held on 11 to 12 November at CEFORMI, in Gikondo Kicukiro district.
The aim was to train parents about using sports to gain fitness, health, education and community building experience and joy while participating in sharing of skills and friendship with their families through transformative power.
Special Olympics is a global movement that unleashes the human spirit every day around the world through the transformative power and joy of the sport.
The movement tackles the inactivity, stigma, isolation, and injustice that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) face.
Their work goes far beyond sports events, driving social change that enables full social participation for people with ID.
Special Olympics approach is to deliver, high- quality training and competition in an inclusive culture through Unified Sports which allows for people with and without intellectual disabilities to play in the same field.
The programs offer 30-plus Olympic-style individual and team sports that provide meaningful training and competition opportunities for athletes ranging in age from 2 to 99!
This premise for all Special Olympics sports is strengthened from partnerships with International Sport Federations, social inclusion opportunities through Unified Schools, as well as opportunities to develop basic skills at age 2 through Young Athletes.