Greater than a dozen children from Florida acquired to expertise snowboarding for the primary time due to a collaboration between Wheelchairs 4 Children, Southwest Airways, Breckenridge Ski resort and adaptive snowboarding applications.
FOX31 studies Wheelchairs 4 Children, a Tampa-based nonprofit, was considered one of 52 nonprofits acknowledged by Southwest Airways by way of a nationwide competitors designed to reward organizations for the work they do of their communities. The provider donated 100 home journey awards to every contest winner.
Madeline Robinson, govt director of Wheelchairs 4 Children, determined to make use of the tickets to fly 18 college students from Wheelchairs 4 Children and their mother and father to Colorado to introduce them to adaptive snowboarding, a sport these kids would in any other case by no means have an opportunity to expertise on their very own:
“We by no means ever dreamed that we’d be in Colorado within the snow, snowboarding. So, that is probably the most superb factor that we have now ever carried out. They’re in a wheelchair most of their life. They don’t get to do issues (that the majority children get to do outdoor). And right here, gosh, they’re taking place!And considered one of them even stated they went down a black, on a sit-ski.” -Madeline Robinson
Ski program director Jeff Inouye stated children in this system left a long-lasting impression on his workers:
“The mix of by no means snowboarding earlier than, a few of them by no means seeing snow, I feel that’s what simply what makes it such an incredible expertise.”
Don’t find out about you however my coronary heart doubles in dimension seeing the grins on these children faces as they expertise the sports activities and surroundings that we love so dearly. Cheers to everybody and all of the organizations concerned. That is superior.
