An inclusive Halloween village in Calgary encouraging homeowners to trick-or-treat from their driveways to support children with disabilities kicked off Saturday.
The Treat Accessibly movement started with a lawn sign on their front yard in 2017 and has grown across Canada, with over 200,000 lawns featuring the sign in 2023.
It then ventured to a Halloween village event, with the first one happening in Toronto in 2021. Nine of these villages have been held across Canada, including in Calgary.
Homeowners come together to hand out Halloween treats on the street and from their driveways to children who struggle to reach the front door of a home.
Siena Padulo started the Treat Accessibly movement in 2017 when she was 6-years-old. She did this to encourage homeowners across Canada to make the experience more accessible for children with mobility disabilities.
“This all started when me and my dad were setting up pumpkins and we saw a little boy in a wheelchair and we realized he couldn’t trick-or-treat at our house for Halloween,” she told CityNews.
“So we decided that year to move our candy to the street, and it’s just expanded from there.”
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