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with about 7000 athletes from a 190 countries pouring into berlin as we speak. but of course, the games for about something much bigger than sports. so what's the connection between the special olympics and social change around the world? today we're talking with german and bass with united states emily harbor and the chairman of special olympics, tim shriver. tim, let me just say thanks. thanks for it. well, thanks to both of you for joining us. thank you. mean your mom and dad you come from. i'm just going to put it out there. the kennedy clan, you know, uh your father and mother were very key to launching special olympics. i'd love you to share with our audience that may have heard about special events, but what was the founding origin story of special olympics and, and what does it mean today to those nations that hosted? well, i think the, the, the, the original story here is the story that is common to many families. my mom grew up with a sister who had an intellectual challenge. she saw her parents struggle, she saw her sister struggle, she saw the absence of care, compassion, opportunity,

justice. and it made her in parts deeply compassionate toward her sister and in parts angry towards the culture. it was as though the world was setup to deny her sister, her dignity and humanity, and she set out on her life to change that not to change her sister, but to change uh the systems that surround that our sister so support for us and for her was really a way to engage people in healing and bridging the gap of misunderstanding and fear and discrimination. people like my aunt rosemary, they're probably 350000000 people on earth today with an intellectual disability, not a physical disability, but an intellectual disability. those people are routinely misunderstood. their routinely treated speed even today as though they matter less. their parents are routinely rejected from schools from health care institutions, from community living from faith based institutions from employment routinely as though it were normal or acceptable to do so. the special olympics movement uses the power of sports, but it's more than just a game. it's a challenge to cultures,

to communities, to individuals, to change your mind, to come over to the vision of each of us having gifts and qualities that are optimized when everybody's as welcome. you know, one of the things in my many conversations with, you know, with you about this is the bottom line dimension of schools of communities of nations that, that somehow get to that point where they create a culture of inclusiveness. they take with people with disabilities. they build in opportunities for them and the change and if you compare them to the places that are not open to that, tell us about those differences between those who make the steps with, with inclusion and people with disabilities and those that don't. yeah, well i think that it's interesting to note that a 185 countries signed the conventions of ratify the convention on the rights of people with disabilities. that's hard news when it was passed, it was a very historic occasion. united nations came together and country after country

ratified the convention of but what so often happens is the countries want to do the right thing, but they don't know what to do next to implement to actually create action. so even though we have a 185 countries that have ratified the convention of very small fraction of countries of actually put resources into training teachers into opening school house doors into making health care accessible for us. the messages. when you open the door, things get better for everybody. it's not just better for a child with down syndrome or a child with autism or young adults with william syndrome or any other condition. it's not just better for them. when cultures are inclusive, it's better for everybody, it's better for their families, it's better for the neighborhoods. it's better for employers when people see and feel included, we even have a strong including the g. d. p rises as cultures become more inclusive, can't prove it, but it seems intuitively right. you know, think about it. when you marginalize a lot of people add

a huge amount of government cost to institutionalization and, and marginalization. the alternative is putting people in the workforce, welcoming people in the community, living, having cultures that welcoming support for civic organizations and private philanthropy, the needs of every family. it's, you know, it's almost obvious that it's makes better sense economically, better since politically and certainly from a human point of view and bass or however you've got $7000.00 special olympics athletes and those who loved them, converging on berlin, coming in in a whole array of of olympic sports across so many different fields i've watched, i'm always amazed by the experience and seeing the, the, the, the challenge, the joy that defeats all of that. why did germany want this is right. um, it's through the biggest uh like a sports event since 1972 if we figured $7000.00 athletes. but think of all the

volunteers. think about the house program that's not going to going to happen and billing. it's happening over, i think over a $170.00 communities districts at a cost gemini. so what i'm the, these games would be about with not that's not the only competition in sports events. ted stories. it's just like the books that towards the book. yeah. so what happens around the hook? that's interesting. what, what happens round the hook is, just go to it. terrific. a 5 us are complicated, compelling. we talked about the data and made the passionate opinion on what and how to tie it. societies can change. if the story really gets routes and the story we want to tell it is a story that is very expensive at that makes it clear that yeah, we have different people have different capabilities, different challenges, but we're all pop of the humanity. um and i think the, the inclusion,

the fact that and actually it's with challenges and assets which outcomes are going to compete are going to compete. and so in, in sports are going to enjoy at the competition. but mostly what it's going to tell is it's going to tear down. we hope these invisible obstacles that prevent inclusion. it's going to, we hope and destroy the invisible barriers. we hope it's going to destroy. it have patterns and habits of perception which are, which may create barriers between people with disabilities and without disabilities . so we hope it's going to be a game changer. and by the way, not only for on society, it's important for on society too. but these are games that will include a $185.00 countries. it's good to tell stories to these, not only to these,

but certainly to these 185 stories. so the magnifying effect of the story, the emanate, we hope from berlin and will include, will have global and repercussions how. and when you talk about those invisible barriers and you know, you're governments there, how much of a lift is, is removing those barriers. and you have confidence the special olympics will move you far forward. oh yes, i do look at we don't started 0. there is legislation in place at, at to facilitate and what people are coming into jobs. people with disabilities coming into dropped actually those. i'm not in jobs at an all time low. this legislation for special healthcare, this ended solution for special care. but you know, the displacement alone with not all to behavior. it just nation alone. we're not an

alter or attitudes or perceptions they exist. and the only way to attack it is these, the sections to actually to show that there are 6 that they don't belong and all the time and age they never did actually. but the only way to really destroy them, to paper wise them is to tell a story where actually everyone can see with his or her own eyes that we belong together. we're all part of the project if you're mandatory, if you will. and that's, that's the story that needs to come from the, from the special olympics because it would speak to the given hot. tim, i'm interested in how the brand has evolved over the decades. i mean, it's a very well known brand. i am stunned by my own introduction today that a 190 countries are participating this daily news if there were a 190 kind of so. so to have that kind of awareness. but,

but i'm sure that special olympics has a certain kind of self selected crowd of people who know about it there. but how, how are you? what are the barriers to your brand going into communities that may not know what are you well known in germany? are you well known in the middle east? are you well known in latin america? what is this, the global state of this special olympics brand? you know, at the 1st event you mention, my mom in 1968, a very defined way cargo in chicago. the 1st time the word special olympics came together in chicago and soldier field and my mom spoke at the opening ceremonies and she looked down on that field. almost everybody had come from an institution. almost everybody was or from the very no families volunteers. 1968 before the democratic convention in chicago, which would lead to violence a few weeks later, after the terrible losses of doctor king and my uncle rock bobby kennedy. there was a moment of great tension and,

and fear and loss of hope in the country. and she said at that event, i hope some day they'll be a 1000000 athletes that will join you that are on the field today. steve, there are $6000000.00 special olympics, asked it in a pre cobra gear. they, those assets would be competing. and over 800000 games at the community level every year. 100 all run by volunteers. wow. now, you know, there's so much you mentioned, this is political. i'll tell you what. most politicians will tell us. the world is divided. we're in conflict. tension, fear, division, all this stuff. this event is a powerful counter message. me. it's saying come see the best of the human spirit. it's not something you have to hope and dream exist. it exist to come, watch heroes of coverage and openness. you don't have to wonder whether that's possible. come look at the athletes. they're doing it every day. they get their

fingers pointed out them and, and yet they're out there ready to run again. and if you don't believe that governments can take positive action come list in just a few hours from now, we're going to be launching a special olympics global coalition of the governments of the willing who are pledging to opening their schools to social inclusion. we hope to have 10 or 15 we, we've already, we've already kind of a t is the china will join this coalition and maybe, and we hope many others. here's the point. governments are looking for away in interest. governments are looking for opportunities to create the counter message we as citizens. the pastor, however, has mentioned this. it's not just about governments. we need governments to help and lead, but citizens are ready. i mean, it, my mother and a time of great despair offered a message of hope. we now live at a time when many, many people i, i'm sorry to say we're giving up in this, in many, many countries there despairing of the future there despairing of their, of their,

their fellow citizens in berlin of all places. we will mark, we will see the exact opposite message. not only don't give up join us. i think it's if someone were watching the show and say it's easy for america, it's easy for germany. you are rich nations. it's not easy for pakistan, world pakistan. a young girl with intellectual disabilities who was just completely disconnected, loved by her mother and grandmother, and virtually no one else chained up limited and where she can do, you know, we saw a film together showing the life of several young people in the world. i think was real pakistan. yeah. and. and it was horrific. yeah. and then how the volunteers and others with special olympics brought this young girl out of her shell, turned her into a run her. she became a winner. so scary for absolutely. listen. listen, all you have to do is talk to our moms and dad. it's tough everywhere. but that

young woman who was in a change, she was change in berlin right now. and she's preparing to run representing her country with the best runners from around the world who are like her. and she will write, i don't know what she'll finish me. but i tell you one thing, she will make the world proud that someone saw her, her mom, you're right, her grandmother and others didn't, but volunteer saw her, and people of goodwill saw her and said, we're going to change this. here's the point of change as possible. yeah, things are tough. things are tough. imagine in this country and again go, let's go to 1968, 200000 americans were incarcerated in institutions. right. in 1968 when the games were held in chicago like an empty soldier field. so people could have said, lucky, this is a, this is a joke. there is no, you have no shot here. people are in institutions. the walls are 14 feet high. they're right, surrounded by barbed wire. parents are giving up all the, you know, some people look at that and go,

well it's helpless. other people look at that and go, what do we do? how do we get involved? how do we make the change? how do we join? and the world right now is starving for opportunities for people to say a lot. let me give this something a chance that is there something i can believe in the answer is yes. believe in these aspects, watch what they do and pass it are. today we have a major crisis that seems like the old style of crisis of a nation invaded not by the soviets, but by russia and ukraine, bordering and part of eastern europe. and to what degree do you think again, coming back to global politics? do you think there will be messages about inclusion, about tolerance, about, you know, nationhood etc values that we care about coming from the special olympics that are essentially also a comment about ukraine? what it's at the maximum count, a story that is going to emanate from berlin, the story of the russian english invasion,

the russian aggression are against 2 kinds of story of hate, of imperial entitlement and of a food, a part. certainly not anything that comes close to extrusion, open societies and a respect and actually celebration of diversity that's. that's what we want to see in the web games, an invalid to you. we're going to talk during the show as well to joseph joe, joe woodland. i think they're going to be in yet. so through this, tim, i'm just interested in, you know, the experiences you have had running this and i know how committed you are and, and also your frustration actually and trying to connect all of us to these wonderful athletes. can you share with us any stories about some of the athletes you've known and worked with? you know, i just went to the 2 weeks ago to

a school here in suburban maryland where they were having their challenge day athletes with very, very, very significant challenge. most uh, non verbal, most struggling with mobility issues. and they had their celebration of sports simple activities, parents cheering, law enforcement, men and women saluting the flags that came in use of plain as the procession went into the gym. this local school. you know, i looked around and i was, is almost brought tears to my eyes and with the hair always. and nothing of these teachers were there every day managing the most complex medical conditions with smiles on their face as a mile wide. and the parents so proud that their child has been able to lift the ball and move it a few inches. of the principal radian rocking around the halls with a smile on his face as though he just won the lottery so to speak. you know,

there's a part of us, a steve that is revealed in these games that i find and leslie moving, it make challenges me to be a better person. honestly, it challenges me to see more clearly the beauty of human, a human spirit. because sometimes we all get distracted and we start to see people is good and bad are smart and not so smart or desirable and undesirable. and then you come to it that's i was at that special effects of interest, as i say, a few weeks ago. and i got in my car and i had to take a deep breath and i thought to myself, i got work to do those people. they know how to live. i wanna learn more from them . that's the message of our move and it always has been. yeah, it's an invitation your country, you want to do better joining us. your family. you want to try something new. join us. you're a person who maybe isn't the best athlete on the team. come play with us, we got

a spot for you. you have a disability, you don't have a disability, we have unified sports, you want to join as a nation. let's, let's find the things that really speak to the core spirit that we share and build on them. it's not going to solve every problem. it's not gonna solve every military economic investor harbor and others are gonna still have to manage geo political challenges. they'll, they'll, they'll persist. but this kind of work will make it more likely we'll find peaceful solutions. and so, you know, i, we're, i, i feel like i say sometimes the if i have the front row seat for the best thing humanity, my name is volunteers are paying out of their own pocket for the materials and equipment and that it really renting the gym and driving the cars and, and i just think to myself, i to hear the back of my mind louis armstrong playing. what a wonderful world, you know, there's something to be said for being sober and being realistic about the difficulties in the world. i'm not naive. we gotta fight hard. most of our parents live day to

day struggling for anybody to pay attention. listen. my mom used to tell this story . she said i can remember. my mother is talking about my grandmother putting down the phone over and over again. she'd call and she'd call looking for something and she put the phone down to there's nothing for rosemary and her voice would trail off nothing, nothing. nothing infuriated that that's still the case. but it's mostly infuriating because of the enormous loss of goodness and possibility that that represents when we close doors. so we go to berlin, we think of 1963. think of 19 all the different parts of the history of that great city. some very, very tragic, some very, very helpful. but we come to us as an investor harbor said to invite the world to tear down the walls, misunderstanding and fear, and replace them with a simple,

active dignity for our brothers and sisters. in this case, people with intellectual challenges, but quickly you learn as you treat maybe that maybe you can treat others as well. that's beautiful. let me ask you just the final question, ambassador. i'm really interested in this tension between family for philanthropy and wanting to help those with disabilities and the generosity of that spirit and self interest. shrewd calculating interest in doing this, the bottom line reasons to, to pursue this. because i think that once people look at the net benefits for students, for society, for how nations that are going up, the development latter are treated in the world that have this and not i'm interested in. do you think germany is absorbing those self interest lessons in a way where it can become a good coach and mentor to other nations that want to take this on? i'm not quite sure whether and just as interest or the recognition of

data, you will be able to tear down the walls. it may be um an additional drive for me to take that road by we're not here down the road. we with the, the, the, the walls will not eliminate the perception patterns the by us. or if we don't, and then making a human story about it. look, you mentioned a defense we all of us saw on and on the other actually it's a now actually it's an impact this time. and what i really did, you find it was not only the one young woman become a, we're not becoming accurate. became proud of us as a very cypress shaw to buy to environment the to that's right. and i did the fact that her mother had left her and there were others perhaps too but they were very

shy about it. i didn't know what to do. and so they just changed their village, they changed the village to change the society, just seeing that someone they loved could actually have potential it and could leave the potential and talk with you. so that's, that's what we need to do. well, we will have to leave it there. what else will trip that conversation is best wishes for a successful successful event. thank you so much for being with us today. at vast. are emily harbor of germany, the host country of the special olympics this week in berlin? and tim shriver share of the special olympics. thank you so much. thank you for having i had a chance to speak with one of the athletes competing in the special olympics this week. he has joseph woodland from right here in washington dc. and here's what he had to say about competing in the track and field races next week in berlin. it takes it less to be fit for the sport. are you excited? yes,

the 1st one to make history from washington dc. it's going to be awesome. awesome trip. have you traveled overseas before? no. this will be my 1st time traveling. wow. see. are you going to win? yes, i'm going away. he's been training for 10 years for this day, and it hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities around the world. joe is much great and confident as jo jo, that can only be a great thing. and that's the bottom line, the to join the global conversations to just say the solution is no good. the people industry could be convenient to say, this is a dialogue. we don't always talk to people that have different opinions that we do . everyone has the police must have it to us that society doesn't do enough to

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