When Martha Wylie created ESP, she followed in Eunice Kennedy Shriver's footsteps by advocating for those with special needs.
No one more than Eunice Kennedy Shriver understood better the power held by the most vulnerable in our society.
Source: Renew America
"I suppose the fact that I had seen my sister swim like a deer in swimming races and do very, very well just always made me think that they could do everything."....Eunice Kennedy Shriver on the Special Olympics
Unwilling to let her so-called "retarded" sister and others with mental and physical disabilities be treated as inferior, Eunice Kennedy Shriver changed the world with her message of hope and inclusion by creating the Special Olympics in 1968. Mrs. Shriver is the reason there is a place called ESP; that Craig can go swimming in UGA'a Legion Pool each and every hot summer day; that he was able to go to public school; that worldwide, people learned, even me, that people with special needs are just that – people...with wants, needs and desires, just like everybody else.
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