Sasha’s Journey of Hope through Special Olympics - World Refugee Day 2024

‘Unified with Refugees’ platform provides Ukrainian refugee with integration opportunities in Slovakia via sports.
Lyudmila explained that his eight-year-old Sasha son “struggles with communication due to the differences in his development as a result of autism.
“It was thanks to Special Olympics that we started somehow to go somewhere, see something and meet new people, including Ukrainians. We met and became so united.”
In Slovakia, Sascha began participating in physical activities at the Dream Day Activity Center alongside children with and without disabilities. Meanwhile, Lyudmila was hired as a teacher at the same center.
“Physical activity affects Sasha’s development. And the fact that I can work at least a bit makes me feel like a human being, not just a refugee.”
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