Support adaptive recreation for individuals with disabilities!

Hi Friends! Thank you for going this far in my campaign to raise money for Achieve Tahoe. Achieve Tahoe provides opportunities to build health and confidence through high-challenge sports for people with disabilities.

What most stories don't tell you is the profound impact of an adaptive sports program on ALL participants. This season, we have provided over 1800 lessons and are still charging through April. We have provided lessons for a 3-year old with Down Syndrome and a 98-year old lifelong skier that felt compelled to stop skiing five years ago due to mobility impairments. That same 98-year old was also a holocaust survivor.

For these individuals and so many others that we serve, the freedoms that many of us take for granted, like being able to pursue a sport that we love or to grow through new challenges, are quite limited. Achieve Tahoe strives to offer opportunities to pursue growth and passions in high challenge sports like skiing. For many people with mobility challenges from spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, or degenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis, skiing offers a normalizing, fluid motion sport that also opens doors to socialization, community, and family.

For other students, pursuing skiing and accomplishing some level of independence inspires them to seek independence in other facets of life; embodying our motto, if I can do this, I can do anything.

But, for those of us in instructor uniforms, its equally powerful. Volunteers dedicate time, energy, love, and money to help people to pursue these activities. They are the most giving people and firmly dedicated to making the world a better place, one ski run at a time. They adapt to every challenge with the end goal of helping someone to simply have a life filled with fun and joy and strive for success. Additionally, we get to be the ambassadors for sports that have helped all of us build health and confidence.

Please make a donation today to this campaign to help bring joy to someone's life.

For a little more motivation, the story inserted here best describes what we do at Achieve Tahoe with and for our students.

Thank you for reading and for supporting our cause!

Based in North Lake Tahoe . . . . Achieve Tahoe leads the way in adaptive sports and recreation for people with disabilities. With over 50 years experience, our trained staff and volunteers guide you in discovering life without limits. Our specialized adaptive equipment and teaching methods allow us to accommodate almost ANYone with ANY disability.

Our Mission is to provide affordable inclusive physical and recreational activities that build health and confidence.

Brief History In 1967 Jim Winthers, a World War II Veteran of the 10th Mountain Division and Director of the Soda Springs Ski School, brought together a group of Vietnam Veterans to support each other as they learned to cope with their disabilities. These Veterans taught themselves and others how to ski. From there, our organization was born.

Achieve Tahoe has continued its rehabilitation orientation and remains dedicated to the belief that sports are a vital part of the process in which individuals with disabilities gain self-confidence, mobility, and greater independence. Our programs promote education, socialization and employment. They help turn tragedy into triumph by instilling in participants the knowledge that it's not their disabilities, but their abilities that count.

Family Orientation We encourage the whole family to participate in many of our programs and activities. This can strengthen family bonds while ending the isolation of individuals with disabilities by uniting families through recreational activities.