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Since 2005, our corporate volunteers have supported the Special Olympics – a global movement to empower people with intellectual disabilities.
The organization comprises 2.5 million children, young people and adults, and has a presence in nearly 200 countries worldwide, making it one of the world’s largest sports movements for people with disabilities. Special Olympics uses sports to change attitudes towards those with intellectual disabilities and promotes recognition of their talents and gifts. When the global winter event was held in Asia for the first time four years ago in Nagano, Japan, 31 members of our Japanese staff were on hand to assist the athletes. Again in 2008, a large number of Deutsche Bank employees in Japan donated time to make the Special Olympics Nippon National Winter Games a success.
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Altogether, more than 80 colleagues assisted the organizers of the Special Olympics Nippon (SON) at the Winter Games in Yamagata in March of last year and subsequently at the Summer Games in Tokyo three months later. Their tasks included managing the athletes’ accommodation, helping the athletes at mealtimes, keeping scores, and looking after the technical equipment.
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