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OSCE Mission in Kosovo holds “Mini Olympics” for young people with disabilities

20 June 2012
  • Njomza Emini, the Head of Kosovo’s Para-Olympic Committee, welcomes the participants. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • Young participants registering for a wheelchair race. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • Participants talking to each other at the opening of the “Mini Olimpics”. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • The Director of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo’s Department for Security and Public Safety Carsten Twelmeier, gives an interview to the public broadcaster Radio Television of Kosova (RTK). (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Hadin Abazi (l) and General Director of the Kosovo Academy for Public Safety (KAPS), Ismajl Smakiqi, shake hands with young participants. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • Competitors making their preparations before a wheelchair race. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • Participants - enthusiastic and exhausted - as they cross the finish line. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • OSCE project manager Shpresa Muharremi (r) congratulates one of the racers. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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  • A basketball team during the awards ceremony receive medals. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
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Some 450 young people with disabilities and their families from different communities participated in a two-day “Mini Olympics Games” supported by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo from 16 – 17 June 2012 in Vushtrri/Vučitrn.

With this event the Mission aimed to promote the integration of people with disabilities and raise public awareness about their actual capabilities, thereby helping fight prejudice about what they can and cannot do, as well as increasing trust and co-operation between them and public safety providers.