Charities 2008 & 2009
Katie’s Ski Tracks
Katie's Ski Tracks is a small voluntary organization, but with a very big heart, which provides skiing holiday opportunities to children/young persons with varying disabilities and even terminal illness. For the vast majority there will be little or no opportunity to participate in this type of sporting activity and therefore they are normally excluded. Katie's has seventeen years experience and continues to provide all the necessary specialized equipment, instruction, volunteers including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, ski guide/instructors, camera crew and entertainment's officers to enable this unique and valuable life changing experience to become a reality.
These therapeutic skiing activity holidays enable the children to participate and succeed in a sport they would never of dreamt possible, enabling them to realize with a little self help, support and determination, they too can enjoy a sport that we may simply just take for granted, hence allowing them the experience and the sheer beauty that the mountains have to offer. These opportunities help them to meet their future positively, growing in confidence and self esteem. These are the building blocks to Katie's success if not life its self, allowing us to make the impossible possible. Unfortunately for some of these children it may be the first and last holiday they ever take.
www.katiesskitracks.org (Registered Charity No 294171)
RIGHT TO PLAY
When children play, the world wins! Today, around the globe, international humanitarian organization Right To Play is using sport and play programs to improve health and education, and foster peace for children affected by war, poverty and disease.
Why Sport and Play? Sport and play are essential development building blocks, helping to foster healthy physical, social and emotional development. Nothing else has the universal appeal of sport—it crosses ethnic, cultural, gender, and linguistic lines. Sport has the power to reach and teach like no other medium.
Where Does Right To Play Work? Right To Play has projects in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
How does Right To Play deliver its programs? Right To Play has a unique delivery model—a global team of staff and volunteers who train Volunteer Local Coaches. These Local Coaches create the foundation in a community for long-term Sport for Development“ programs and for individual and community leadership.
Athletes Are Involved? Right To Play is supported by an international team of professional, Olympic and paralympic athletes from over 40 countries. These athletes inspire children, are role models for healthy lifestyle choices and help raise awareness and funding for Right To Play projects. Join the Team. Join the Red Ball Movement.
Find out more www.righttoplay.com
