Foundation “Are You Able?” Challenge Night
November 21, 2009, 6-11pm
VF Designer Building, 3rd Floor
801 Hill Avenue Reading, PA 19610-3026 Click
here for directions
Please join us…
The IM ABLE Foundation is holding the 3rd Annual “Are You Able?” Challenge Night. Click here to register for this event.
The purpose of the event is to demonstrate our vision and goals and expose the community to the work we want to pursue. The night’s festivities will be a sports theme but from a disabled person’s perspective. Professional as well as local athletes will be on hand to challenge you on the putting greens, basketball hoops and other sporting events that will have to be performed from a wheelchair. The culmination of the night will be a wheelchair obstacle course challenge that will take able bodied individuals and putting them through a timed course representing some of the daily challenges a disabled person faces. These would include inclines, declines, rough terrain over rocks, curbs and a door to name a few. Those with the best scores and times in the events will be crowned the winners.
While the main goal for the foundation is to encourage and promote physical fitness to individuals with a disability, it is also equally as important to bring awareness to the able bodied community so that they can have a better understanding and respect for what their disabled counterparts must face on a daily basis.
Proceeds from this event and events to follow will allow the foundation to support demonstrations with handcycles and other fitness equipment for the disabled and help the individual see what is available to them. Monies have already been spent by the foundation to buy three bikes that will accommodate 5-18 yrs old, as well as a mono-ski that will be a part of the adaptive ski program at Bear Creek the foundation is working to establish. Grant requests and awarded contributions will be used to maintain these bikes and to award individuals who do not have the monetary resources, the means to purchase equipment.
Become a Sponsor!
Click here for the Foundation Event Sponsorship Form