OUR MISSION

The mission of the International Institute of SPORT (IIOS) is to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities in the less economically developed countries worldwide.

WHO WE ARE

We are a non-profit advocating for the disabled in areas of public access, education, integration, job skills, physical rehabilitation, therapeutic recreation and disaster relief. We are educators, artists, administrators and professionals. We are also networkers and are grateful for our partners.

WHAT WE DO

We engage children and adults in art projects geared to developing an understanding of disability. We help rehabilitate and train disabled athletes for the Paralympics. We help disabled people become employees and business owners. We provide art supplies, medical supplies and mobility devices. We represent disabled artists in the world art market. We advocate for the disabled in business and government affairs to help secure access to jobs and transportation.

Media Coverage

Burnet Man Helps Disabled Haitians

By Nora Hopkins
Burnet Bulletin
Burnet, Texas
March 10, 2010
front page & 9A

Dr. Fred Sorrells of Burnet distributes a solar panel and solar rechargable lamp to an earthquake victim at the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The lamp provides up to 30 hours of light and can be recharged in five hours with the small solar panel. Sorrells plans to distribute thousands of these $19 units to those rendered homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

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Pecans, art sales used to benefit Haitian disabled

(Banner Staff Photo by Don Treul) Bullard artist Don Bristow, left, and his wife Sandy Bristow, hosted a benefit at their Bullard home Friday, Jan. 26. Proceeds were used to help disabled Hatians in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit the region in January.

By Don Treul
Bullard Banner News
Bullard, Texas
February 3, 2010
front page

About $500 was raised to help find four disabled Haitian artists, and to advocate for the disabled during the relief effort in Haiti.

Bullard artist Don Bristow and his wife Sandy Bristow hosted a benefit Friday, Jan. 26, at their home in Pecan Valley Ranch. The proceeds to be used in Haiti included 50 percent of the sales of original art by Bristow, featuring Chaotica 2010, and 100 percent of the sales of pecan gift baskets and raw pecans from Sorrells Farms in Comanche County.

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Artists with East Texas ties found alive in Haiti

By Sarah Story
KLTV Channel 7
Tyler, Texas
February 1, 2010

KLTV reported that the 4 disabled Haitian artists represented by the International Institute of SPORT were found alive.

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4 Missing Haitian Artists

By Sarah Story
KLTV Channel 7
Tyler, Texas
January 14, 2010

KLTV's Sarah Story interviewed Global Art Initiative Technology Coordinator Don Bristow on January 14, 2010, about the unknown status of 4 disabled Haitian artists following the Haiti earthquake.

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