Shah Galoon Hayat comes from an underprivileged family and was born with an intellectual disability. But these challenges didn't stop her winning a medal at the Special Olympics World Winter Games 2025 in Italy. This is her story.
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00:00The first time I went to the airport, I was a son of 37 years old, but I was a son of 37 years old, and I went to the airport.
00:21I didn't know that I was going to win.
00:24they are walking when they are walking and they are going to exercise
00:34people are going to exercise
00:353, 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, and 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
00:46The children are with intellectual disability
00:48so they are not a level of normal children
00:51We work with fine motor skills, gross motor skills, vocational training, self-help, cognition, social skills, speech and language.
01:06Because their speech is very low, they are talking about one word.
01:10They are doing understanding, but they can't describe it in detail or in sentences.
01:16We provide a platform for the parents, for the children where they can go and they can learn about not only the disability,
01:45their challenges, but their strengths also.
01:48That's a big achievement for us that a girl child from this underprivileged background from this locality went to Italy.
01:58And her parents encouraged her because girls are not encouraged to even go to school in very underprivileged areas.
02:05I am a special kid and she has also done a job.
02:12And I am also a special kid.
02:14And I am also a special kid.
02:15I am also a special kid in my life.
02:17And there are also many specials in Olympic students.
02:19And I am also a special kid.
02:20And I am also a special kid in their life.
02:23So let's go and give an honor to our country.
02:25And let's give an honor to our country.
02:27Thank you very much.