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You're making a difference!
SMILE Mass is in the process of creating a Community within a Community! This property will have an adaptive and inclusive outdoor recreation area, offering outdoor recreational opportunities to able-bodied individuals as well as individuals with disabilities.
A space where everyone will have the opportunity to enjoy nature, participate in recreational classes, art programs, music or horticulture classes, despite disability. We will contract with professional specialists in each recreational area.
Being outdoors in the fresh air to exercise, will improve your over all health and mental state. But, perhaps the greatest gift for children and adults with disabilities is that they now have the same opportunity as everyone else, belonging to a recreational club, right in their own community. And perhaps, with a little luck, they will even meet like-minded people whom love to be active, making new friends.
By providing a barrier free environment, one could only hope the person with the disability is not defined by the disability, but by the person they are.**