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Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with mental handicap by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships.

Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Founded in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies is an international organization that has grown from one original chapter to more than 1,500 college, high school and middle school campuses across the United States and internationally.

The organisation has programmes in each of the 50 United States and accredited international programmes on six continents with additional country programmes under active development.

The seven formal programs – Best Buddies Citizens, Colleges, e-Buddies®, High Schools, Jobs, Middle Schools and Buddies United in Leadership Development (BUILD) – aim to impact positively on more than 700,000 individuals in 2010.

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