24/11/2024
Dave Calver you are awesome! We hope to see you soon in Costa Rica! 💪🏼🔥🌊🚣🏻♀️🌊
SiP Global Adventures
Occupational therapist Dave Calver has dedicated his career to working in wheelchair development in less-resourced countries. He’s a wheelchair user himself and a whitewater paddler for 35 years. In 2020, Calver founded SiP—the Society for Inclusion and Participation, SiP Global Adventures —which offers life-changing river adventures to young people, ages 14 to 40, with spinal cord injuries and related disabilities.
“Rivers have an incredible ability to heal,” said Calver.
SiP’s five-day whitewater program follows a standard skills progression on water but is paired with evening rehabilitative health classes on topics including ulcer prevention and sexuality after injury. The five days of on- and off-water learning help participants develop the skills they need to live healthier, independent lives and smash their own preconceived limitations.
“Kayaking is ideal because of the ability of the river to cleanse people, to face their fears, and to understand the scariest outcome they conjured up never came to be,” said Calver. “The ability to move beyond that on the river sets them up for the most soul-searching discoveries.”
Read the full article on River Heroes making the rivers more accessible: https://bit.ly/3RwSZrt
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