Air Canada Staff Adapt Toys for Kids With Disabilities
On Thursday, we had a great time adapting toys with Air Canada staff at their office in Richmond.
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Clubs That Care youth leader Dante Bravi teamed up with his alma mater, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), to host a Hacking for the Holidays build event, making 150 low profile switches for children with disabilities.
While we’ve often highlighted the efforts of our volunteers, today we want to do something a little different — we want to share the great work a couple of Hacking for the Holidays supporters are doing to raise funds to ensure kids with disabilities get the adapted toys they need to play independently.
A successful collaboration between Place aux compétences, École Anna-Malenfant, and our Makers Making Change and Solutions programs resulted in the creation of a simple yet effective 3D-printed adaptation for a Neil Squire client preparing to return to work with pain and limited left arm mobility.
When students at Gretna Green School’s Gator Designs extracurricular maker club learned they would be building switches for kids with disabilities for our Hacking for the Holidays campaign, they felt inspired to take it one step further.