Backgrounder: Enabling Accessibility Fund

The Enabling Accessibility Fund supports the capital costs of construction and renovations related to improving physical accessibility and safety for people with disabilities in Canadian communities and workplaces.

The four projects in the Peterborough and the Kawarthas region that recently received support under the EAF are:

• Camp Kawartha Inc. - received $10,923 to build an accessible dock to install a Hoyer Lift to assist persons with disabilities into canoes, as well as to purchase a portable amplification system and accessible dinging room tables for their campers. 
• New Canadians Centre - received $30,954 to update the interior/exterior doors and upgrade the bathrooms in their facility.
• Jewish Community Centre of Peterborough - received $100,000 to construct an exterior accessible ramp, an accessible washroom, retrofit a door to make it more accessible, and to install accessible doors.
• Peterborough Theatre Guild - received $100,000 to allow for more future employment or volunteer opportunities for persons with disabilities, as well as make the theatre experience more accessible for all attendees.