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Knights Lacrosse Booster Club Partners with Equi-Kids of Virginia Beach

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On the weekend of January 16th, the Knights Lacrosse Booster Club continued its partnership with a wonderful organization called Equi-Kids of Virginia Beach.  Equi-Kids is a therapeutic equestrian program based in Southern Virginia Beach. They serve the community offering numerous therapy programs involving horses as a means to increase communication and activity.  Their programs help children and adults with a number of programs ranging from riding lessons for Children with special needs, to interaction programs supporting military Veterans.   

Equi-Kids relies heavily on volunteer support to assist with the myriad of logistical requirements that come with operating large stable hosting dozens of horses.  Like many community organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic has made their work even more challenging due to the increased hurdles limiting large numbers of volunteers, although the needs of the horses haven’t changed…

The young men and women of the Knights Lacrosse Booster Club, utilizing shift work, and working in State of Virginia approved, small, COVID-safe groups, devoted a weekend to this amazing program.  Our kids efficiently worked their way through the outside paddocks doing the very necessary, but non-glamorous, job of cleaning up after the horses.  Thus, helping maintain the incredibly high level of cleanliness the operation requires.

Later in the year, the Knights Lacrosse players (now professional muckers) will take another trip through the paddocks.  Equi-Kids returns the favor and will be assisting the Knights Lacrosse Booster Club by helping stage their annual Mulch Drive and Fundraiser.  TheEqui-Kids allows the  Booster Club to utilize their open areas to stage and deliver several thousand bags of mulch to homes in the surrounding community – an impossible job without the assistance and open space Equi-Kids offers.