Alcino Pereira is a tiny stick of a man, not even 80 pounds, with a slight limp and a lame right arm. He wakes each morning with the rise of the Southeast Asian sun and runs from his home in the war-ravaged East Timor port city of Dili. His cheap sneakers thump the gravelly roads, carrying him past thatch-roofed fruit carts and bullet-pocked walls. After a few hours he rests, eats a meager lunch and then runs the afternoon away, crisscrossing Dili with a gap-toothed smile as familiar as the tides.

When an Amer-ican from the Special Olympics came to Dili earlier this year looking for people with intellectual disabilities, he was met with blank stares. They had never heard ...

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