New Wheels for Special Needs Campers

Thanks to a generous donation by the Emergency Children’s Help Organization, a group of special needs children will get to enjoy the outdoors this summer. The organization recently presented the Jewish Community Center with a set of all-terrain wheelchairs.

Children enrolled in “Marvin’s Camp,” a JCC-run summer program for special needs kids, will be using the wheelchairs in their outdoor activities. The new equipment will enable the children to enjoy a well-rounded summer camp experience, despite their limited mobility. Each chair costs about a thousand dollars.

Sebastian Angelico, Chairman of the Emergency Children’s Help Organization, says of the campers,”They couldn’t do certain activities, now they can. [The chairs] will make them feel like they can do everything everyone else can do and that feeling’s got to be something.”

Yoni Wiesel, the JCC Director of Special Needs Services, said he is very happy to be able to include children with physical disabilities in the “full camp experience.”

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