A reason Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded a day camp in 1962 was that

Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded Camp Shriver in 1962 to give children with intellectual disabilities opportunities to play sports and take part in physical activities. At the time, they had few such opportunities. The camp later helped inspire the Special Olympics, so the best answer is that children with disabilities had few places to participate in physical activities.

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