“Sophie is 23 and she has been riding with We Can Ride 20 years… I had learned about therapeutic horseback riding and the gait pattern is very similar to a person, we needed to give her that movement and motion to help her start to walk – which she did. Then we got a new diagnosis for her and she is losing her ability to walk. Now we are here because we need her to have movement, and we need her to have strength, and we need her to have ways to actually do things because she cannot take any steps by herself.

You think you’re just giving money, but it has nothing to do with that. You are giving people experiences that they would never ever otherwise have. And you are opening the world to people that… they don’t get that opportunity. And so you’re making their world bigger. And some of these people’s worlds are so small…. And you are doing something so amazing. My daughter has been on a journey with these horses for 20 years and she will stay around these horses until the day she dies … because it is life-changing.”