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Ms. Que Banh Jun 10, 2025

My #DisabledSailing association, #AbleSail Victoria secured a funding grant from #SailCanada & now can offer a CANSAIL 1 course at Royal Victoria Yacht Club. I signed up this morning for training in August.
Once I successfully complete CanSail 1, I can take their Can Sail 2 course. These will help me reach my adaptive sailing dreams of competing in a future Mobility Cup regatta.

Very grateful for all funding grants & donors for helping Able Sail Victoria with monies needed to keep their programs running. Disabled folks like me wouldn't be able to afford participating if the programs weren't highly subsidized.

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSports #AdaptiveSailing #Sailing #Sailors #AdaptiveSports #AdaptiveRecreation #VictoriaBC #RVYC #DisabilitySports #WeCanDoIt #AccessibleSports #Inclusion #YYJ #VancouverIsland

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Jocelyn Jul 28, 2024

3/ I don’t know where I’m going with this. What I’ve learned as a #disabledperson who works with other folks with #mobility #disabilities is that #inclusion is about far more than just #accessibility of equipment. It’s also about equity of access to resources, services & infrastructure required to use it. How #inclusive are we really being if it’s out of reach to all but a tiny % of the #marginalized group? #equity #disability #aMTB #AdaptiveRecreation

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Jocelyn Jul 28, 2024

/2.5 *DYK since the late 2010s when greyhound pulled out of Canada, there’s no more #WheelchairAccessible #transportation between Vancouver and Whistler BC? My work does an #AdaptiveRecreation camp in Whistler every year with one of the only organizations offering #aMTB guided rides in the province, and the one barrier we struggle the most with is finding transportation for participants who need it. Don’t even get me started on the cost of #AccessibleVehicles these days.