Milestone at Games in Abu Dhabi

Atotal of 11 new subSaharan African nations have signed up for Special Olympics programmes and will be participating in the World Games here in March 2019.

Special Olympics programmes have been newly established in Burundi, Cape Verde, Congo (Brazzaville), Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Niger, Chad and South Sudan.

‘Inspiring experience’

Heads of Department (HODs) from countries across the Middle East and North Africa were in attendance at a three-day seminar, alongside representatives from further afield such as China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Great Britain, USA, Canada and Zimbabwe among others.

Khalfan Al Mazroui, Managing Director at Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019, said: “It has been an inspiring and insightful experience to meet over 100 HODs.”