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Feb 19, 2015

"All good things are wild and free." --Henry David Thoreau

SpiritHorse: Helping Children With Disabilities Soar

Ex-telecom executive Charles Fletcher created a global network of therapeutic riding centers serving children with disabilities--free of charge. Noting that the special connection between children and horses was restorative, he wanted do more than offer feel-good pony rides. So he studied up on how to help heal and plowed his Social Security checks into launching SpiritHorse, an organization which has changed more than 5,000 children's lives worldwide.