Special Olympics: Providing more than sport
Our guest speaker was Andrea Werner , who volunteers as Sports Coordinator at the Special Olympics Sydney Northern Beaches Club. Andrea was accompanied by two local members of the Athletes' Leadership Program, Annalise Fadeev and Fred Pollock . Andrea has been a volunteer with Special Olympics for 14 years and explained the beginning of the organisation in the US followed by Australia and what people with an intellectual disability can achieve with the right support and opportunity, Annalise Fadeev, Andrea Werner and Fred Pollock Global Movement Special Olympics has grown from a backyard camp into a global movement that has been transforming the lives of people with an intellectual disability for almost 50 years. The global sporting community was pioneered by the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister to US President John F Kennedy as well as Rosemary who had an intellectual disability. Today, Special Olympics supports over 5 million athletes in 177 countries. Australia was t