No doubt you read the article in the Yellowknifer or heard about it on the radio. Yellowknife’s playgrounds have limited access for those individuals in wheel chairs and other disabilities. To have NJ’s playground become accessible for everyone would be a first for Yellowknife and a great start.

Here is the information found on the AVIVA Community Fund Website:

To create a fun park that is accessible to children with disabilities, especially children in wheelchairs. We would like this playground to be a playground that does not segregate but includes all children regardless of their physical abilities. What it would offer each child is opportunity, opportunity to play,opportunity to swing, opportunity to rotate. This playground would be an extension and addition to the current playground facilities at the school.

We believe that every child should have equal access to good play opportunities. We would purchase equipment that would allow children with disabilities to play side-by-side with the able bodied. It would be a park for all children to have fun.

We would like to install new equipment that would be such as accessible Fun Hoop, or a Jenn swing, or speedy racer, bell panel, drag ramps, accessible seats, accessible tables, wide tread stair, rounded slides, a music centre, but most especially a ground cover that wheelchairs can move on.

This park would be open to the children attending our school but also to the community. Everyone in Yellowknife would benefit from it.

So here is what you need to do. Go to the AVIVA Community Website and register and then to the Fun Park page to vote. Remember to vote as there is only 2 days left. A note to Union of Northern Worker/PSAC Members: AVIVA is the PSAC insurance company. Please support this project to put your insurance dollars to work locally in Yellowknife. Also please forward the link to as many people as you know, an easy way to do so is by pressing the “Share/Save” button below!

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