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Neil Squire’s Makers Making Change program is launching their second annual #HackingForTheHolidays campaign to make sure that play is accessible to all kids with disabilities this holiday season.
Last year, we raised $28,000 and delivered over 600 toys and 900 switches to children with disabilities across Canada. For 2023, we are shooting even higher. With a fundraising goal of $100,000, we are aiming to build 2,000 toys, switches, and video game joysticks, host over 100 events across all 10 provinces, and make sure that play is accessible to all kids with disabilities this holiday season.
Wow! Just last year we were celebrating having served a record-setting number of participants. This year, we’ve nearly doubled that number — we served 11,187 participants from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. In all, we’ve served nearly 75,000 persons with disabilities since our inception in 1984.
Former Computer Comfort volunteer and longtime friend of the Society, Phiroze (Phil) Reporter, was featured in What’s On Burnaby, noting that he has served over 2,500 hours as volunteer with Burnaby Hospital over the past 15 years.
This year, we’re marking five years of the Makers Making Change Assistive Device Library. Over the years, the Assistive Device Library has evolved. We wanted to take a look at how far we’ve come.