The B.C. Automobile Association and Belfor Property Restoration teamed up May 16 to help prepare an Easter Seals B.C. summer camp for kids with disabilities.
The goal for the camp is to provide safe and fun activities in an environment where the focus is on abilities, not disabilities.
As part of BCAA's Volunteer Day, employees helped create more accessible trails, a new outdoor amphitheater, new accessible picnic tables and benches and the list goes on and on.
"In all my years with Easter Seals I can't remember a time when we had so many helping hands come out to get the camp ready for the camping season," said Rick Harker of Easter Seals B.C. in a media release.
The buildings at Camp Squamish are more than 40 years old, and because of the camp's location on the West Coast, the rainy damp winters can be hard on all aspects of the buildings, fences, ground cover and lawns.
"It's a challenge to keep up with all the maintenance required, but with the wonderful help of BCAA and Belfor Property Restoration, we will now be able to show off some extra things like accessible picnic tables and benches in great colors," Harker said.
All camp activities are designed to build confidence and independence in a recreational environment.
Campers are also encouraged and supported to participate, with their peers, in activities they may never have tried before including: climbing on walls, going for nature walks, playing wheelchair sports and taking leadership training.
