Spread the Word: InclUSion
Photo By Paula Preston
What I am MOST passionate about and here to inform you on is my platform- Spread the Word: Inclusion. Did you know that up to three percent of the world's population have intellectual disabilities- that's 200 million people around the world! We are living in a new world that those with Intellectual Disabilities are being recognized as contributing members of society and now are asking for acceptance and inclusion. As Eunice Kennedy Shrive would put it: They have earned the right to play sports, they have earned the right to have a job, they have earned the right to have an education....They have earned the right of inclUSion. The intellectually and developmentally disabled want equality, dignity and recognition of shared humanity.
We shouldn't be afraid of or divide what's different.
I have gotten 1000 pledges/signatures to no longer use the "R"-word (retarded). SO FAR I have raised over of $2,000 and that number continues to climb.
Be an ambassador of an uprising, join the revolution.
Lets come together.
Pledge for Inclusion:
https://play.specialolympics.org/page/s/jointherevolution?source=2018campaign_wwwIR
This is an amazingly written article on me and my sister-
http://www.dl-online.com/content/pageant-sisters-campaigning-against-r-word
We shouldn't be afraid of or divide what's different.
I have gotten 1000 pledges/signatures to no longer use the "R"-word (retarded). SO FAR I have raised over of $2,000 and that number continues to climb.
Be an ambassador of an uprising, join the revolution.
Lets come together.
Pledge for Inclusion:
https://play.specialolympics.org/page/s/jointherevolution?source=2018campaign_wwwIR
This is an amazingly written article on me and my sister-
http://www.dl-online.com/content/pageant-sisters-campaigning-against-r-word