Kids hone sports skills at national Special Olympics
[Special Olympics Hellas]
“Coexistence, osmosis, is the only way to achieve integration,” the head of Special Olympics Hellas, retired ambassador Dionyssios Kodellas, tells Kathimerini as 900 youngsters with intellectual disabilities head to Loutraki in Corinth for the Panhellenic Special Olympics Games on October 3-7. The games are part of a program funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to promote participation in sports among disabled schoolchildren. Participants will be competing in swimming, bocce, soccer, table tennis, basketball, cycling and track. The event also includes an “integration festival” encouraging games between disabled and other pupils.
