The People Behind Challenged Champions & Heroes
The Founder and President of Challenged Champions and Heroes, and the creator of the Challenged Champions National Awareness Day. Dr. Lococo has been very ambitious in life after overcoming many challenges and obstacles in her life. Her size as a 4’9′ woman and losing her mother at an early age has struck a fire within her to achieve. She is a three-time Presidential award winner, and the former President of Ethiopia, Girma Wolde Gorgis received the Excellence Service Award in 2016. The 2019 and 2021 United States Lifetime Achievement Award is a bipartisan award given to an individual with 4000 volunteer service hours to the United States of America. She is also the 2020 Special Needs Civility Icon of the Year Global Award winner for the honor culture she has created for Special Needs around the world. Dr. Lococo had taken her voice to a higher level by creating the Challenged Champions National Awareness Day (JULY 29). She is a voice for recognition for top achievers in the special needs community and their caregivers. Her life mission is to create equity and empowerment for the special-needs communities of the world. “ The world is truly a better place because of champions like Dr. Lococo for standing tall and creating the path for the differently-abled communities to be recognized for excellence,” says HRH Clyde Rivers. Please stand with Dr. Robin Lococo for this noble cause.
“To those who said I couldn't do it: Watch me now. I'm Changing Nations!”
— Dr. Robin A. Lococo
Our Mission
Challenged Champions & Heroes
Challenged Champions and Heroes is an organization that brings honor and recognition to the physically and mentally challenged individuals in the world and their caregivers, the “Heroes,” those individuals who spend countless hours caring for and loving others despite what may be going on in their own lives.
Working in conjunction with (ICN) I Change Nations, founded by Dr. Clyde Rivers, and the (IPI) Inter-faith Peace Initiative, a Global Peace initiative, founded by Mussie Hailu and based in Ethiopia, Africa. Which uses the Golden Rule:” Treat others the way you would like to be treated” around the globe. iChange Nations is currently in 120 nations. Challenged Champions and Heroes was founded in 2015 by Dr. Robin A. Lococo.
We believe every life is valuable and created for a purpose. Every life has a destiny and purpose to fulfill. We believe in bringing honor and recognition to these extraordinary people it will also awaken the gifts and greatness within them. Many people in life do not recognize their own value. We want to change this!
Many times, the physically and mentally challenged individuals are overlooked in society and perceived as a burden. We believe that this is not so. These individual’s abilities are as vast as their disabilities may be.
Each Challenged Champion contains something special within them to enrich other lives and should be treated with dignity and respect. We strive to recognize and highlight each and every individual’s abilities through our honor system and show how every life directly affects the lives of others. When one person dies without tapping into what they were created for, the whole world suffers.
Our education systems will also bring awareness to others. Many people fear what they do not understand. We will bridge the gap of ignorance, fear, and not understanding what is seen on the outside, to a realistic viewpoint of God’s creation, destiny, love, and purpose.
We believe his philosophy of honor and respect, in itself, multiplies and promotes change.
Challenged Champions’ and Heroes’ vision is to also redefine the word disabled to “Challenged Champions” around the world. Challenged Champions are not disabled but differently-abled.
Won’t you join us in our quest to transform and “change the world” by honoring and recognizing these extraordinary individuals!
Purpose & Mission
- Affirm that Every life is valuable
- Promote civility, dignity, and respect for individuals with disabilities
- Shift perspectives from disability to ability
- Encourage inclusive dialogue within schools, churches, communities, and organizations.
CCH SPOTLIGHT
Dr. Robin A. Lococo, Receiving the 2018 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award
“Service is the Key”
Dr. Robin A. Lococo was truly overwhelmed when she was nominated and received the 2018 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is given for 4000 volunteer community service hours to our great nation. This award is not a political award, it is a bipartisan award for individual service to America. Dr. Robin A. Lococo was well qualified for this award since she has served for 25 years within the community and nationwide with her iChange Nations family.
