Saturday is World Down Syndrome Day!

Tomorrow (3/21) is World Down Syndrome Day. 

 

Celebrate by watching this great video put out by the Jerome LeJeune Foundation (named after the geneticist who discovered that Down Syndrome was caused by trisomy 21 (3 copies of the 21st chromosome), currently on the road to canonization.

 

Or this inspirational story about the basketball team of at Lincoln Middle School in Wisconsin defending one of their cheerleaders with Down Syndrome.

 

Or do yourself a real favor spend some time celebrating with a person with Down Syndrome!