Hussain Darwish

Hussain Darwish is an athlete from Special Olympics Bahrain in the Middle East North Africa Region. Hussain participates in swimming and running. He has been involved in Special Olympics since 1990.

Hussain’s favorite parts about Special Olympics are gathering with people, helping others, and developing skills.

Hussain is excited for the congress in Berlin. He is looking forward to meeting people from different countries and participating in all the activities with them. He is excited to share his experience and hopes to gain new ideas for a unified concept.

Hussain is employed as a carpenter helper. When he isn’t working or competing, he enjoys sports and chatting with people sometimes he likes to write his feelings and short stories.

Hussain says that being an athlete leader means being an important person and giving a hand for others.

Hussain’s grant plan is to train 10 athletes to be unified leaders in different areas (assistant coach, athlete spokesperson, health messenger) based on their preference. To accomplish this, experts will host 8 workshops. Hussain also plans to work on ending discrimination and bullying towards people with Intellectual Disabilities by doing an awareness campaign in one of the largest malls in Bahrain. During the campaign, he hopes to collect 5000 pledges for the Spread the Word Campaign. This will target different segments of the community encouraging them to include people with intellectual disabilities, stop using harmful words, and to engage with them on social media.