Botswana Special Olympics makes headway

That is why the movement won three awards during the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) awards ceremony at the weekend. Tebele said parents who have disabled children no longer hide them. They bring them forward to be helped. "The community has moved from the belief that having a disabled child is a curse," he said.

Special Olympics amassed three awards at the BNSC ceremony and ended up second in the pecking order after the Botswana Athletics Association (BAA). The feat was a big achievement for such a small code. At the BNSC, event Tebele won the sports administrator of the year award while Special Olympics got the group code of the year title. The third award for the code was bestowed on Shangidear Sibanda as junior male sports person of the year.