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Letter from the Executive Director

Food is a basic need, as is shelter. Many agree that human touch and community also are basic needs. Without these, living can become impossible.

Many of our athletes will tell you that AccesSportAmerica has become as essential as any other basic human need. Like breathing and eating, our community and our hope are part of making lives richer and fuller.

This summer, we will have more sessions on the water than ever before with guaranteed miraculous outcomes. For the first summer, our City Street athletes - children and youth living with disabilities from the Boston and Chelsea Public Schools - will join us at Camp Harbor View, a model camp on Long Island in Boston Harbor under the direction of the Boys & Girls Clubs. During two special weeks in July, 600 campers of all abilities will benefit from our adaptive sports program - windsurfing, outrigger canoeing and soccer.

We freely admit that we can never do justice to the value of AccesSportAmerica with words. If you could be with an AccesSport athlete on any given day and watch the transformation to be reinvigorated and vital - then you'd understand how important our work has become. 1,500 children and adults living with disabilities directly count on us and many more family, friends, therapists, and teachers are also touched. Please read the letter from Corey Viafore McKenzie of Chelsea Public Schools. We've worked with her for years and her words convey the feeling I'm trying to describe.

I ask also that you consider a generous gift in response to AccesSportAmerica and this summer appeal. Thank you.  

Sincerely,

Ross Lilley 
Executive Director

PS Your gift of $50, $100, $150, $250, $500, $1000+ will make a real difference! For example, $500 will support a City Street athlete for one year.

You may contribute on line at AccesSportAmerica.org/Support or mail your check, made payable to AccesSportAmerica, to Summer Appeal, AccesSportAmerica, 119 High Street, Acton, MA 01720.


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