Partner of the Special Olympics National Committee (CNSO) for over 5 years and wanting to contribute to the process for the social inclusion of children and adolescents with physical and/or intellectual disabilities, the Digicel Foundation has donated more than 2 million gourdes to the Special Olympics National Committee.

This funding will allow the National Committee to achieve its many activities planned for 2014 – a year which is proved to be very important for the final preparation of the athletes who will represent Haiti at the next World Paralympics Games to be held in autumn 2015 in Los Angeles. Moreover, thanks to this support, more than 1500 athletes will have the opportunity to learn and / or improve their technical skills in sports such as athletics, basketball, football, ping-pong, bocce, volleyball etc. This donation will also allow them to hold the annual summer camp Shriver that will host during 2 days over 400 young people from almost everywhere across the country.

"The Digicel Foundation is very pleased to have contributed to this noble activity that translates quite the vision of the DigicelCompany to get involved in the lives of the Haitian people and work every day to build a better tomorrow. We are very pleased with this collaboration and already wish good luck to Special OlympicsNational Committee which has a really interesting program for thousands of young people with special needs across the country," declared the Executive Director of the Digicel Foundation, Sophia Stransky.

Moreover, during the signing of the renewal of this partnership, the Digicel Foundation has announced the appointment at CNSO, of Mrs. Rachel Pierre-Champagne, Head of Projects for 3 years at the Foundation, who will put her experience to serve the committee in order to help them structure their activities.

HL/ S/ HaitiLibre

HL/ S/ HaitiLibre