1988 DID YOU KNOW? In 1988, sent Facts and figures about the 8th ASEAN Para Games 2015 its first team of Opening and Closing Ceremonies and much, much more! participants for the held in Seoul, South Korea. THE STRAITS TIMES 1921 Nobel Prize winner OPENING & CLOSING CEREMONIES 15th September15th September 2008 2008 Albert Einstein showed signs of from 2008 PARALYMPIC GAMES 400 ATHLETES being on the Autism spectrum. BEIJING 2008 Performers PARALYMPIC GAMES 661 23 COUNTRIES Volunteers 174 took part in the first Motivators Paralympic games held 120 Students in 1960 in Rome, Italy. SINGAPORE WON ITS 454 Despite being mildly GOLD FOR SWIMMING BY Special Ed. Schools dyslexic, Mr Lee Kuan Yew IN 2008 15 mastered 4 languages fluently, picking up 中文 SINGAPORE WON FIRST Creative Team ITS FIRST GOLD 75 members Mandarin and Hokkien 42 only in his 30s METRES FOR SWIMMING TALL BY YIP PIN XIU にほんご Melayu SINGAPORE HAS APPROXIMATELY

was the time taken A group of philanthropists got 5 WEEKS 9 7, 2 0 0 together in 1961 to set up a for Indonesia to put together a team single-room educational centre of rugby players for the 2014 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES for 26 intellectually-disabled Asian Para Games in children in Towner Road. The The Singapore Indoor Stadium Incheon, Korea. 13,000 school-going centre is named Towner Chin Pu was opened on New Year’s children have special needs (meaning ‘progress’ in Chinese). Eve in 1988 by the then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. ER CH WN IN O PU T Laurentia Tan was the 1ST PERSON to win Singapore a Paralympic medal. She 1996 is also Asia’s first ever 7,600 OUT OF 13,000 In 1996, intellectually-disabled athletes Paralympic equestrian children with disabilities competed in the Paralympic Games 2008 medal winner. go to mainstream schools. (Atlanta) for the first time. Artwork by Alexa Ong Seow Fen. Story by Richard Wright. Cartoon by Alexa Ong Seow Fen. What about you guys?

Hard work and determination! To be the BEST that we can be!

HOW get PAAARRRAAA-FANTASTIC! do you do that? Suddenly, they’re struck by a freak storm! Shiver me WHY do you do that! Fearsome pirates Long John Bob timbers!! and Captain Hock are merrily sailing15 men on a on their ghost ship. dead man's chest! Bob and Hock Yo ho ho! Hang on, feel ashamed. Hock! fish... we...... we’re just selfish...

Then, inspiration strikes!

So our pirates work day ... They land and night... on a sunny Let’s feed tropical the athletes! island.... It’s a tough job to be pirates!

SINGAPORE

Are we in paradise? The next day, at the (but someone’s got to do it!) 8th ASEAN Para Games,

EXTRAORDINARY! Fabulous fish! ... and Let’s plunder! succeed in turning their fish haul into the most Food for the Suddenly, they run into a group of athletes. Champions! Now THAT’S delicious and most TOUGH! nourishing otah our athletes Wow, she’s training hard! in Singapore! emerge gasp! Champions!