The DuPage Drones and Culver’s of Downers Grove are announcing “Dine and Donate,” from 11:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on July 15. Members of the Drones team and front office will be serving food at Culver’s of Downers Grove to raise money for Special Olympics Illinois and meet the community.
Ten percent of all money raised during the lunch and dinner hours will go to Special Olympics Illinois. Special Olympics is a global organization that unleashes the human spirit through the transformative power and joy of sport, every day around the world.Through programming in sports, health, education and community building, Special Olympics is changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities solving the global injustice, isolation, intolerance and inactivity they face. Special Olympics Illinois provides opportunities for more than 22,000 athletes, more than 20,000 Young Athletes, 45,000 volunteers and thousands more people statewide through 18 Area programs in all 102 counties of the state.
Special Olympics Illinois does not charge athletes or their families to participate in the program. Their mission is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.