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Andrew Horn
The (REAL) Field of Dreams
Slide 1: Close your eyes. Think of your greatest sports memory...hitting the winning home run, sinking the game winning shot....setting the record on the track. Now imagine that experience never happened.
Slide 2: So is the case for over 13,000 children with disabilities living in Washington DC (Similar number for the 5 surrounding counties) who don't have the most basic access to athletics and recreation opportunities.
Slide 3: There are not nearly enough adaptive programs available to service the adaptive atheltic requirements of this isolated community. - Many children and families fail to realize and find the offerings that are happening just neighborhoods away.
Slide 4 : Local childrens charity,Dreams for Kids is chaging this with Extreme Recess. An innovative Adaptive Athletics program that brings children together for one of a kind adaptive atheltic events (with the naitonals, wizards, mystics and capitals etc.) and also connects programmatic providers in the DMV with the families they want to serve and vice versa.
slide 5: Story about Trey, a child who has come through our clinics and through his aprticipation linked up with several other organizations that he works with consistently, doubling the amount of access to atheltics and recreation he received before Extreme Recess.
Sports are vital for children with disabilities the same way they are for able bodies kids. Everyone can get involved with this equality movement and everyone can make a difference.
Video of extreme Recess
About Andrew Horn:
Andrew Horn is the Executive Director of Dreams for Kids DC.
Andrew is a 24 year old social entrepreneur who seeks to empower isolated groups of people through innovation, community organizaing and most of all, having fun while changing the world.
He founded the DC chapter of Dreams for Kids 2 years ago when he was 22.
Video fo Andrew speaking at TedX NasaYouth. The questions that changed my life and enabled me to pursue my own dreams.
