Everyone has the right to participate and feel included.
That’s what the Grandview Swimming Pool is trying to achieve by purchasing a pool access chair.
Jill Wiebe Grandview Rec Director, tells us why they’re needing this equipment.
“We’re trying to raise funds for a pool access chair to go into the Grandview Swimming pool. This pool access chair is a wheelchair that someone can go in and out of before and after the pool. This allows them to not get their regular day-to-day wheelchair wet. They can go into this wheelchair and take a shower in it in our facilities. It’s just trying to make everybody’s life a little bit easier in our pool and we’re trying to be accessible friendly to everyone who is a pool user.”
The pool access chair will greatly help out with Grandview’s Swim Ability Program that allows for children with disabilities to participate in a swimming program.
So far they have raised $905 for the chair and have applied for grants to assist with the purchase.
Their next fundraising efforts will be at the Grandview Kinsmen Mud Bog event, where they’ll be selling 50/50 tickets.
