From stairs to the difficulty of saying “trick or treat,” more than 200,000 children with disabilities may face barriers when trick-or-treating across Quebec this spooky season.
To help make this family tradition accessible to everyone, Treat Accessibly is partnering with Maxi to offer 3,100 free lawn signs available at 25 Maxi stores.
“The concept is simple, homeowners can hand out candy and non-edible treats at the end of their driveway instead of at their front door,” they said in a press release. “They can then display a Treat Accessibly lawn sign to let families know that all children are welcome.”
The initiative started in 2017 thanks to then six-year-old Siena who asked her parents how a boy in her neighbourhood using a wheelchair could go trick-or-treating if every house had stairs.
Her family was moved by her empathy, and decided to come up with a solution: handing out treats at the end of their driveway so everyone could participate.
They also placed a sign on their lawn in advance of Halloween, a way for their community to know what they would be doing.
Treat Accessibly said they quickly gained momentum, inspiring other neighbours to set up their own driveway treat stations.
More than 300,000 households across Canada participate in the initiative and Montrealers and beyond can too by picking up a sign at their participating Maxi stores.
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