The movement started in Cameroon in 1995, with the goal of assisting people with intellectual disabilities to fully integrate into society.
Since then, Cameroon has sent Special Olympians abroad to compete, brought in a foreign trainer to teach people how work with sportspeople with intellectual disabilities and started a program called "Football for Hope."
Special Olympics Cameroon has organized a national region based competition for several years, including in 2008, 2009 and 2009.
[1] Special Olympics first arrived in Cameroon in 1995, with the goal of assisting people with intellectual disabilities to fully integrate into Cameroonian society.
[5] Special Olympics Cameroon was supposed to send a delegation in 2011 to Athens World Games.
The program was supported by Cameroonian Football Federation (Fécafoot) and Special Olympics Cameroon.
In establishing this program, Aléokol hoped to have enough players ready to potentially compete in the 2010 ID Football World Championships.
[11] Special Olympics Cameroon organized a national ID football week in November 2008 in Yaounde.