Horse Ride for Children’s Happiness!

The Konstantin Kondakov Charity Foundation conducts health promotion events for children under the program The Road to Life for Every Child and the Good Cause Every Day! event. On April 19 the foundation staff held a fascinating excursion to Pony Club for a family type orphanage – the Gyodz family – which is already familiar to our readers after the Shrovetide – Learning Our Traditions event. The positive role of therapeutic horse-riding, or “hippotherapy”, is commonly accepted today. Horse’s muscles have a therapeutic massaging and warming effect that helps to normalize blood flow and general improvement of the rider’s body.

Children greatly improve their communicative, motoric and mental functions. In addition, children find out many interesting facts about animals and learn to love and to communicate with them.

On April 19 kids from the Gyodz family had a wonderful opportunity not only to ride, but also to look around the club, see the living conditions of the horses, and even to hand-feed them. Such an event cannot be forgotten, and the children are sure to share their bright experience with their peers!

So much happiness and pleasant excitement shone on the happy faces of the riding children! The boys imagined themselves as brave medieval knights and the girls – as charming ladies, hurrying to the royal ball. Little Antonio was probably the happiest kid – when he moved out of the wheelchair on a graceful horse. Perhaps for the first time in his life he felt like a brave knight, capable of doing the most heroic actions!

A little bit of attention, live communication with the horses, an informative tour – and the eight kids in one hour became much happier and healthier than hundreds of their peers! So let us love nature and make our kids familiar with it – because only together with love we can build a new world.