A live performance was held in Kitchener Saturday night time to boost cash for a corporation that’s making a supportive neighborhood for these with particular wants.
The Charity Live performance for Champions, held on the Royal Canadian Legion on Wellington, is aiming to boost $30,000 for Fierce N Match Boxing.
The group says its mission is to “enhance the bodily, psychological, emotional and non secular lives of these with particular wants.” That features folks with Down syndrome, Asperger’s, fetal alcohol spectrum problems (FASD), Tourette’s, cerebral palsy, consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction, and different studying and cognitive problems.
Fierce N Match Boxing was began by former Kitchener boxer Taveena Kum.
The 2-time nationwide champion was alleged to go to the 2020 Olympic Video games in Toyko, however her plans modified in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I ended up beginning to prepare a few of my buddies who’ve Down syndrome, and we determined, ‘Hey, what? Let’s simply maintain coaching on-line,’” she stated. “It simply exploded, it bought large. In order that’s how this system was born.”
Since then the group has discovered a everlasting house, though they nonetheless do on-line programming.
Whereas individuals study non-contact boxing, the actual focus is on empowering members and creating neighborhood.
“It unites us as a staff, it provides them confidence, and energy, and braveness,” Kum stated. “That’s what our program is meant to do.”
Additionally at Saturday night time’s live performance, Kum and her staff introduced they not too long ago obtained full charitable standing.
