Kyle Maynard 

(born March 24, 1986) is an American speaker, author and mixed martial arts athlete,
known for becoming the first quadruple amputee to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of
prosthetics. He is also founder of the No Excuses Crossfit gym.

Although he was born with a rare condition known as congenital amputation, where fibrous bands
prevent the development of fetal limbs, Maynard decided to pursue involvement in sports, first in
youth league football, where he played nose tackle for the Collins Hill National Eagles at age 11.[1]
[2]
 He wrestled in high school, ultimately winning 36 matches in his senior year of high school.[3][4] He
went on to place 12th in the 103-pound weight class.[5] Maynard also began weight training, and was
awarded the title of GNC's World's Strongest Teen by bench pressing 23 repetitions of 240 lbs

The same year, he received the ESPN Espy Award for Best Athlete With A Disability in 2004.
[7]
 Maynard appeared in both Vanity Fair and the Abercrombie & Fitch Stars on the Rise catalog.[8] He
was also the recipient of the 2004 President's Award for the Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame.[9] He
went on to attend the University of Georgia and was a part of their wrestling team, but left shortly
after starting his education to promote his book and pursue a speaking career.[10][11][12] While attending
the University of Georgia, he began work as a speaker for the Washington Speaker's Bureau,
specializing in motivational speeches.[13] He was also featured on talk shows including The Oprah
Winfrey Show and Larry King Live.

In 2005, Maynard began training in mixed martial arts (MMA), and was denied a fighter's license by
the Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission in 2007, before opting to fight in Alabama,
where MMA was unregulated.[23] His amateur debut fight was at Auburn Fight Night at the Auburn
Covered Arena in Auburn, Alabama on April 25, 2009.[24] He lost the fight to Bryan Fry on a 30–27
judges' decision.[25]
In 2010, he was the subject of a documentary film, A Fighting Chance, which focused on his MMA
efforts.[26] Directed by Takashi Doscher and Alex Shofner and was produced Ted Leonsis, the film
was later released on DVD, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit wounded veterans.[27]
In 2011, it was announced that Maynard was planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of
prosthetics.[28] To prepare for the climb, he trained at a series of locations around the US,

including Stone Mountain and Blood Mountain in Georgia, Winter Park in Colorado, and Camelback

Mountain in Arizona, with expedition co-leader, Dan Adams,[29][30] testing and developing equipment
that included welding sleeves and rubber bicycle tires attached to his body with heavy-duty tape.
[31]
 Soon, an organization called Orthotic Specialists got involved, and owners Barb and Brett Boutin
created custom equipment with Vibram soles, based on molds of Maynard's arms and legs.

The climb, intended to raise awareness for wounded American military veterans, included a team
consisting of former members of the U.S. military with injuries and conditions including shrapnel
wounds, post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.[34][35][36] The mission also donated $25,000
worth of medical supplies to the Mwereni Integrated School for the Blind in Moshi, Tanzania.
[37]
 Guided by Kevin Cherilla of K2 Adventures Foundation, the group began their climb on January 6,
2012, with 16 days allotted for the climb.[38][39] On January 15, 2012, Maynard became the first
quadruple amputee to climb Mount Kilimanjaro without assistance, by crawling all 19,340 feet in just
10 days.[40][41] In 2012, he was awarded his second ESPY for best male athlete with a disability for
completing the climb.
Kyle Maynard is an entrepreneur, speaker, best selling author, award-winning extreme athlete,
and the first man to bearcrawl to the top of the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro
(19,340 feet), and the summit of Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua (22,838 feet), the highest peak in
both the Western and Southern Hemispheres.

Born with a rare condition known as congenital amputation, that left him with arms that end at
the elbows and legs that end near his knees, he learned early on to live life independently and
without prosthetics. Kyle thrives on physical challenges and is a champion wrestler, CrossFit
Certified Instructor and gym owner, competitive Mixed Martial Arts fighter, world record-setting
weightlifter, and skilled mountaineer.

He is on a mission to make the world a better place and to inspire others to do the same by
sharing his story and living by example. He travels across continents, speaking to thousands of
executives and students, athletes and warriors, to share his "No Excuses" philosophy. He is a
humanitarian who passionately supports numerous charities, and commits time and resources to
work with wounded and recovering U.S. military veterans.

Kyle is the New York Times best selling author of his life story, “No Excuses,” and the focus of
the moving ESPN documentary, “A Fighting Chance.” His story has been featured in countless
television programs and editorials, which have been viewed by millions around the world.

With no hands or feet, Kyle Maynard could make plenty of excuses. But that’s not how
he lives his life. Instead of letting physical differences decide what he can and can’t do,
Kyle focuses on setting his mind to what he will do. With no excuses. Kaya po ang
pangalan ng gym nya ay “No Excuses Crossfit gym”
APOLINARIO MABINI

- Was born in July 23, 1864

-  a Filipino revolutionary leader
- An educator
- A lawyer
- A statesman
- regarded as the "utak ng himagsikan" or "brain of the revolution"
- considered as a national hero in the Philippines
HIS WORKS
- El Verdadero Decálogo (The True Decalogue, June 24, 1898)
- Programa Constitucional de la República Filipina (The Constitutional Program of the
Philippine Republic, 1898)
-

Mabini was struck by polio in 1895, and the disease gradually incapacitated him until
January 1896, when he finally lost the use of both his legs.

Apolinario Mabini was born on July 23, 1864,[1] in Barangay Talaga in Tanauan, Batangas.[5] He was

the second of eight children of Dionisia Maranan y Magpantay, a vendor in the Tanauan market, and
Inocencio Leon Mabini y Lira, an illiterate peasant.[6]
Apolinario Mabini attended the historical school of Father Valerio Malabanan located in Lipa.[7] Being
poor, Apolinario Mabini was able to get educated due to the Malabanan school's matriculation of
students based on their academic merit rather than ability of the parents to pay. He would meet
future leader Miguel Malvar while studying in Lipa.

Valerio Malabanan took students into his school with academic merit regardless of ability to pay.

In 1881, Mabini received a scholarship from Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila. An anecdote

about his stay there says that a professor there decided to pick on him because his shabby clothing
clearly showed he was poor. Mabini amazed the professor by answering a series of very difficult
questions with ease. His studies at Letran were periodically interrupted by a chronic lack of funds,
and he earned money for his board and lodging by teaching children.[6]
Law Studies[edit]
Mabini's mother had wanted him to enter the priesthood, but his desire to defend the poor made him
decide to study law instead.[5] A year after receiving his Bachiller en Artes with highest honors and
the title Professor of Latin from Letran, he moved on to University of Santo Tomas, where he
received his law degree in 1894.
Mabini joined the Guild of Lawyers after graduation, but he did not choose to practice law in a
professional capacity. He did not set up his own law office, and instead continued to work in the
office of a notary public.[8]
Instead, Mabini put his knowledge of law to much use during the days of the Philippine Revolution
and the Filipino-American war. Joaquin notes that all his contributions to Philippine history somehow
involved the law:
"His was a legal mind. He was interested in law as an idea, as an ideal[...] whenever he
appears in our history he is arguing a question of legality." [

Born on July 23, 1864 in Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas. He was the second of eight children of Dionisia Maranan and
Inocencio Mabini, both of whom belonged to the impoverished peasantry. Despite of his poverty, Mabini was able to
study in Manila. He began his studies at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in 1881 and received his law degree in
1894 from the University of Santo Tomas. To survive, he earned his living by teaching Latin and then serving as a
copyist in the Court of First Instance in Manila.

In 1896, Mabini contracted an illness that paralyzed his legs. When the Katipunan revolt broke out late that year, the
Spanish authorities arrested him for being a member of Katipunan. Unknown to many, Mabini was not a member of
Katipunan but of the reform association of Jose Rizal, the La Liga Filipina. Bonifacio’s movement sought military
insurrection while Rizal’s movement aimed for gradual reform. Though as a pacifist reformist, he was at first skeptical
of Bonifacio’s armed uprising, Mabini later became convinced of the people’s almost fanatical desire for liberation.
Subsequently, he turned out subversive manifestos appealing to all Filipinos to unite against Spain.

Mabini came to the forefront in 1898 during the Filipino revolution against Spain. In the subsequent revolution against
the United States, he became known as the brains of the revolution.

Even if Mabini was already paralyzed, in 1898 General Emilio Aguinaldo summoned him to serve as his chief adviser.
He drafted decrees and crafted the constitution for the First Philippine Republic, including the framework of the
revolutionary government which was implemented in Malolos, Bulacan in 1899.

Mabini was appointed prime minister and was also the foreign minister of the newly independent dictatorial
government of Emilio Aguinaldo on January 2, 1899. Mabini then led the first cabinet of the republic. He remained the
head of Aguinaldo’s cabinet until his resignation on May 7, 1899.

On December 10, 1899, he was captured by the Americans at Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija, but was later set free. In spite of
his physical condition, Mabini refused to submit to American authority and continued to write against the occupying
power. In January 1901, he was arrested the second time by the Americans and was exiled to Guam, where he
remained until his return to Manila on February 26, 1903. On the day he sailed, he issued this statement to the press:
After two long years I am returning, so to speak, completely disoriented and, what is worse, almost overcome by
disease and sufferings. Nevertheless, I hope, after some time of rest and study, still to be of some use, unless I have
returned to the Islands for the sole purpose of dying.

On May 13, 1903 Mabini died of cholera in Manila, at the age of 38. Mabini’s life despite of disability was selfless and
motivated by high ideals. He would state, I have no other balm to sweeten the bitterness of a harsh and melancholy
life (in exile) than the satisfaction given by the conviction of having always done what I believed to be my duty. God
grant that I can say the same at the hour of my death. (from La Revolucion Filipina).

Disability struck in the life of Apolinario Mabini when he was in his 30’s at the prime of his life. But disability did not
stop him to show his courage in the midst of revolutionary exigency during his time. With his physical limitations in the
actual battlefield, Mabini armed himself with impressive mind, soul, and deep patriotism that made him a martyr to the
cause of the country’s freedom.
Frida Kahlo, a Mexican woman who had multiple disabilities including polio as a child and spinal and pelvis
damage from a car accident, became a world-renowned self-portrait painter.

At the age of six, Kahlo was bedridden will polio. The polio virus cause damaged to her right leg and foot. She was
left with a limp. Her father thought that playing soccer, wrestling and swimming would help her recover.

As a teenager, she was in a car accident. A steel handrail was impaled into her hip and came out the other side. Her
spine and pelvis were damaged significantly. While in recovery, she began to paint.

Some examples of her art that portray her disability include The Broken Column (1944). In this painting, she depicts
herself standing on the beach. The beach is in the background while her body is shown in the foreground of the
painting. Her body is open down the middle showing a rod and restrictive medical corsets, which she had to wear for
most of her life. There are nails embedded into her skin – throughout her body.

In the Tree of Hope, Keep Firm, she painted two versions of herself. In the background, on the left side, is the sun;
on the right side, is the moon. The ground on both sides is broken with deep crevices going across the canvas. Kahlo
painted the back of her body with an open gash going down her back and across her hip. The left side of the painting
shows her dressed in a red gown holding her restrictive medical corsets. She also is holding a sign that says, “Tree of
hope stands firm.”

Throughout her life, Kahlo came face-to-face with her disabilities and turned them into art. She has many paintings
depicting her disabilities. She never let her disability prevent her from pursuing her passion. As Kahlo said, “I never
paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”

Studies show many people within the Latino and other communities hide their disability due to negative stigmas, but
Kahlo illustrated hers in her art. It is because of this, that she is the perfect candidate for
RespectAbility’s #RespectTheAbility campaign, which is highlighting individuals with disabilities who are
extremely successful in their chosen career.
The global economy is strongest when it is inclusive of the value that diverse talent brings to the workplace. People
like Kahlo have made a difference.

FRIDA KAHLO
- was born on July 6, 1907

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan, Mexico City, Mexico.

She grew up in the family's home where was later referred to as the Blue
House or Casa Azul. Her father is a German descendant and photographer.
He immigrated to Mexico where he met and married her mother Matilde.
Her mother is half Amerindian and half Spanish. Frida Kahlo has two older
sisters and one younger sister.

Frida Kahlo has poor health in her childhood. She contracted polio at the
age of 6 and had to be bedridden for nine months. This disease caused her
right leg and foot to grow much thinner than her left one. She limped after
she recovered from polio. She has been wearing long skirts to cover that for
the rest of her life. Her father encouraged her to do lots of sports to help
her recover. She played soccer, went swimming, and even did wrestle,
which is very unusual at that time for a girl. She has kept a very close
relationship with her father for her whole life.