Gainesville-based non-profit Hope for Hall has completed its third inclusive playground with the Hall County School District.
Hope for Hall fundraises for and constructs playgrounds that specifically accommodate children with disabilities. The organization unveiled its most-recent playground at Lyman Hall Elementary School. Hope for Hall previously built playgrounds at Wauka Mountain and Sandra Dunagan Deal elementary schools.
Each playground is designed with a specific theme that is unique to its respective school. Designed alongside Principal Angel Rodriguez, Lyman Hall’s playground sports a soccer field-inspired look. The playground features several accessible components, including equipment that enables wheelchair users to play without transferring out of their seat.
The area also features sensory and musical components.
Hope for Hall Founder Caroline Filchak explained each playground also features education panels with information about accessibility and inclusivity. The panels also feature a “Hometown Hero” section, which features a local community member who represents Hope For Hall’s mission.
“We featured on some panels, Beat Ball, (which is) how blind athletes play soccer,” Filchak explained. “A really neat local connection here to Hall County is that Brett Fowler, who works at Turner, Wood & Smith…his wife, Laura Fowler, her grandfather was a man named Charles Fairbanks, and he actually invented the beat ball…he really revolutionized sports for disabled athletes.”
The organization’s goal is to one day put an inclusive playground at every school in Hall County. Flichak said the non-profit has been approved to start a fundraising campaign to bring an inclusive playground to Spouts Springs Elementary School in Flowery Branch.
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