Best Buddies Panama hosts first-ever Oral Health Day with Universidad Latina
Best Buddies advances global inclusion at the 2025 Global Disability Summit in Berlin.
A powerful week in the Philippines advancing inclusion, leadership, and global friendship.
Best Buddies Serbia hosts annual Friendship Walk on World Down Syndrome Day.
Best Buddies’ Senior Director of International Programs is recognized for her global impact on inclusion.
Global Collaboration Brings Friendship and Creativity to the Forefront.
Marko Tomasevic shares his journey of volunteering, fundraising, and supporting children globally.
Best Buddies Canada celebrates the success of their inaugural Friendship Walk.
Best Buddies Spain hosts their first Friendship Walk of the 2025 season.
Meet the team working to expand out global reach.
The 2025 Staff Leadership Conference marked Best Buddies’ first international staff gathering.
We are excited to announce that Carlos Kanahashi and Lauren “Liane” Hinlo have been selected as Global Ambassadors for Best Buddies International for the 2025-2027 term.
Celebrating Inclusion Figures
Tony DeBlois weighed less than 2 pounds, became blind within days and was later diagnosed with autism, but ignoring conventional wisdom, his mother’s love uncovered his musical genius. Tony now plays 20 instruments and knows more than 8,000 songs.
Celebrating Inclusion Figures
Sarah Gordy is a British actress, model and dancer – who happens to have Down Syndrome. Gordy made history in 2014 when she played a key role without a handicap in “Crocodiles” at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre.
Celebrating Inclusion Figures
Pranav Bakshi was two years old when he was diagnosed with autism. But his mother, Anupama Bakhshi, decided to not let it become a hurdle in the way of achieving his dreams and so, one day when Pranav expressed his interest in modelling, his mother knew she had to help her son explore fields of his interest.
Celebrating Inclusion Figures
Disability representation in front of the camera is more imperative than ever. But what about behind the scenes, diversifying the visionaries who make up our creative industries? This is the mission behind Trifle Studio, the UK’s first multidisciplinary design studio whose work is created by artists and designers with learning disabilities.
Celebrating Inclusion Figures
Reuben Selby is a fashion designer, a tech entrepreneur, a CEO, and a neurodiversity advocate. At 25 years old, Reuben Selby is a certified polymath or, in his words, the wearer of “many different hats.”
Celebrating Inclusion Figures
As the UK’s first blind and Black female barrister, the name Jessikah Inaba is inscribed in history. Last October, after five years of study and painstakingly transcribing all her own lecture notes into Braille, Inaba was called to the bar, smashing what she refers to as “the triple-glazed glass ceiling”.
