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Dreams Take Flight
Calgary
The Dreams Take Flight charity was started in
1989. A group of Air Canada employees in Toronto organized a trip that took 70
special needs children on board a DC-9
aircraft to Walt Disney World in Florida.
In 1993, Air Canada employees in Calgary raised enough money to send 50
children to Disneyland in California. The
organizing committees in Calgary and Vancouver shared a Boeing 767 aircraft on
October 16, 1993 for the Dreams Take Flight adventure. This was the birth of
Dreams Take Flight in Calgary. In 1996 Air Canada President, Hollis Harris
donated a B767 aircraft for the exclusive use of the Calgary chapter of Dreams
Take Flight.
In 1997 Dreams Take Flight began to operate Canada wide with all
participating cities operating under one logo and one name “Dreams Take Flight
Canada / Voyage De Reves”. There
are eight Dreams Take Flight chapters across Canada to include Vancouver,
Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. Dreams Take
Flight is a registered charity in Canada.
Dreams Take Flight reaches out to special needs children including
terminally and chronically ill children as well as children who are mentally,
physically, socially and emotionally challenged.
Children who have already visited a Disney resort do not qualify for the
trip.
Over the last nineteen years the Dreams Take Flight chapter in Calgary
has organized this adventure for special needs children that live in Calgary and
Southern Alberta. The Calgary chapter of Dreams Take Flight has taken 2548
children on twenty one flights over the 19 years. The charity is honored to give
special needs children the opportunity to visit the Magic Kingdom and
participate in the Dreams Take Flight adventure.
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Magical
Memories of Past Flights, Kid's
Page, Selection Process, Dr. Neil Cooper, |
