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Agency Name: Equest Special Riders Inc.
Address: 4517 96th Street East
City: Tacoma
State: WA
Zip Code: 98446
Phone Number: (253) 241-5639 (253) 579-9565
Email: equestspecialriders@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.equestspecialriders.org/
Description: Equest Special Riders is a non-profit organization of trained volunteers who provide therapeutic recreational horseback riding and instruction for persons left physically or mentally disabled through irregularites of birth, high fevers, disease or trauma from an accident. A few students are adults; the greatest majority of the special riders are children. Children, who might never have walked, enjoy a chance of experience the exhilaration of moving freely, mounted atop a horse. While riders are invloved in specialized games designed to improve coordination, the horse’s gait massages their leg muscles. You need to only watch one session to realize how much riding impacts the self-confidence and well being of the students.